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Now, Gods of whatever land they may be, there are those three Bardic Brothers amongst them: He of Light, who awakens vision; He of Song, who rouses up the harmonies and ennobling vibrations; and He of Strength, whose gloves hold all things fast, and neither force nor slipperiness will avail against them. It was this third of them, Gwron, who propounded the plan that satisfied the Pantheon.
Such a One he shall be, as draws no breath but to tunes of my playing; the motions of his mind, to my music, shall be like the motions of the ordered stars." And they both thought: "It will be easy for me to do as much as this, with his having the Gloves of Gwron on his hands."
Then there was the Period of Gwron, Strength; when Marlowe and Shakespeare and Milton evolved the Grand Manner; when they made the great March-Music, unknown in English before, and hardly achieved by anyone since: the era of the great Warrior-poetry of the Tragedies and of Paradise Lost.
We appear to find in Sanskrit literature, I speak in a very general sense, also such great main epochs or cycles. Then a reign of Gwron, in the Age of the heroic Epics. Then a reign of Alawn, in the Age of the Drama. But the direction is all opposite.
But this stability; these Gloves of Gwron; this instinct for middle courses and the balance, this Doctrine of the Mean and love of plain sane doings: she has retained enough of this to keep her in being. And it was K'ung Ch'iu of Lu that gave it to her. Shall we not call him Such a One as only the Gods send?
Not quite inexplicable, either: he came from the Gods, and had the Gloves of Gwron on his hands: he had the wisdom you cannot fathom, which meets all events and problems as they come, and finds their solution in its superhuman self, where the human brain-mind finds only dense impenetrability. Marquis Ting saw and wondered. "Could you do this for the whole state?" he asked.
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