And as the steel-blue eyes of the first Man Saw answering lights in Embla’s lapis eyes The red blood Loki set to spring in them Flooded hot faces. Then he saw that she Was like himself, yet other; then she saw His smiling face, and by it, knew her own— And so they stared and smiled, and the gods smiled To see their goodly work, so fair begun In recognition and in sympathy. Then Ask stepped forward on the printless shore And touched the woman’s hand, who clasped fast his. Speechless they walked away along the line Of the sea’s roaring, in their listening ears. Behind them, first upon the level
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