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Gerd.

Priest, thou walkest lame afoot.

Brand.

I was hunted.

Gerd.

              Red thy brow
As the blood of thy heart's root!

Brand.

I was beaten.

Gerd.

              Musical
Was thy voice of old, that now
Rattles like the leaves of Fall.

Brand.

I was——

Gerd.

          What?

Brand.

                By one and all
Spurn'd.

Gerd.


[Looking at him with great eyes.]


         Aha,—I know thee now!
For the priest I took thee;—pest
Take the priest and all the rest!
The One, greatest Man art thou!

Brand.

So I madly dared to trust.