Of riches for fortune's rich minions.

Here freedom and peace did in concord dwell,
Kindly united;
And all loved their father, the king, full well,
For each might tell
His mind in the thing,* none were slighted.

*See glossary.

Supreme in the Northland through thirty years
His reign extended;
Contented each went to his daily cares;
At evening prayers
The king's name in blessings ascended.

King Ring moved his gold-stool back. From the board
All there assembled
Arose to attend on the royal word,--
Renowned where heard:
But he sighed, and in accents that trembled,

He said: "My lost queen is in Folkvang-hall
On purple seated;
But here on her grave is a grassy pall,
While breathe o'er all
The flowers with sweet odor freighted.

"So queenly, so honored, so good and so fair,
There's not another.