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An Episode / I
Sending / So on the floor lay Balder dead; and round / Lay thickly strewn swords, axes, darts, and spears, / Which all the Gods in sport had idly thrown / At Balder, whom no weapon pierc'd or clove; / But in his breast stood fixt the fatal bough / Of mistletoe, which Lok the Accuser gave / To Hoder, and unwitting Hoder threw: / 'Gainst that alone had Balder's life no charm.