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LinesAn eighteenth I know, that ne’er will I tellTo maiden or wife of man,—The best is what none but one’s self doth know,So comes the end of the songs,—Save only to her in whose arms I lie,Or who else my sister is.

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An eighteenth I know, that ne’er will I tell To maiden or wife of man,— The best is what none but one’s self doth know, So comes the end of the songs,— Save only to her in whose arms I lie, Or who else my sister is.

Hávamál, Henry Adams Bellows, stanza 165. Public domain in the United States.