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Up from the fret of the earth-world, through the Seven Circles of / Flame, / With the seven holes in Its tunic for sign of the death-in-shame, / To the little gate of Valhalla the coward-spirit came.
Cold, It crouched in the man-strong wind that sweeps Valhalla's / floor; / Weak, It pawed and scratched on the wood; and howled, like a dog, / at the Door / Which is shut to the souls who are sped in shame, for ever and / evermore: