Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 17
1923The fool is agape when he comes to the feast,He stammers or else is still;But soon if he gets a drink is it seenWhat the mind of the man is like.Free to read · Built for close study
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The fool is agape when he comes to the feast,He stammers or else is still;But soon if he gets a drink is it seenWhat the mind of the man is like.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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