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It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.

O farmer, strong farmer! You can spend at the fair, But your face you must turn To your crops and your care

O woman shapely as a swan.

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

There sat Iduna in the golden house that opened on her garden, Had she been in the world of men, every one who saw her would have remembered their own innocence, seeing one who was so fair and good. She had eyes blue as the blue sky, and she smiled as if she were remembering lovely things she had seen or heard. The basket of shining apples was beside her. To each God and Goddess Iduna gave a shining apple. Each one ate the apple given, rejoicing to think that they would never become a day older. Then Odin, the Father of the Gods, said the runes that were always said in praise of Iduna, and the Dwellers in Asgard went out of Iduna's garden, each one going to his or her own shining house.