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Osmotar, the bride-instructor, Gives the wedding-guests this counsel, Speaks these measures to the bridegroom:
"Ilmarinen, artist-brother, Best of all my hero-brothers, Of my mother's sons the dearest, Gentlest, truest, bravest, grandest, Listen well to what I tell thee Of the Maiden of the Rainbow, Of thy beauteous life-companion: