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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: