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'If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? Then clearly his sacrifice was rejected because it was the sacrifice of an evil-doer. His description as such is given in the words of my text, which are hard for us to translate into our modern, less vivid and picturesque language.
Gudrun answers, "Tomorn will I ask her concerning this, who is the liefest to her of all men for a husband." Sigurd said, "Needs must I forbid thee this, and full surely wilt thou rue the deed if thou doest it." Now the next morning they sat in the bower, and Brynhild was silent; then spake Gudrun "Be merry, Brynhild!
In consequence he took to his heels, arrived breathlessly at the councillor's door, and knocked violently. His mother, the councillor's old servant, opened it. "What doest thou here, good-for-nothing?" she said, "and why art thou not at Notre Dame?"
This whole month have I been on my knees to thee many times in the day, praying thee to incline the Lady's heart, when she should come, to show a mother's pity to this motherless one. And thou hast not heard me thou hast not heard me. Holy Virgin, what doest thou? Have I not offered candles at thy shrine? Have I not deprived myself of needful things to pay for thy litanies?
And that one of a graceful countenance, and void of guile worshipped Chyavana, and also ministered unto guests, and the sacred fire." And seeing that one of excellent limbs, and like unto the daughter of the lord of celestials, the nose-born Aswins neared her, and addressed her, saying, "O thou of shapely thighs, whose daughter art thou? And what doest thou in this wood?
At the bottom of the steps there was a door of adamant. Upon the door were these words in letters as black as ink, in the handwriting of the old man who had gone: "Oh, fool! Fool! Beware what thou doest. Within here shalt thou find death!" There was a key of brass in the door. The King of the Demons turned the key and opened the door. The young man entered after him.
'If thou doest not well, a wild beast crouches at thy door. Then there follow, with a singular swift transition of the metaphor, other words still harder to interpret, and which have been, as a matter of fact, interpreted in very diverse fashions. They were spoken to Eve, in the declaration of her punishment. They contain the blessing that was embedded in the curse.
"Stay a moment, comrades," said Leo, "and, chief, give me your arm; my scratch grows stiff; I cannot walk fast. We will finish this hunt together." "What doest thou? Art mad?" asked Ayesha. "I know not whether I am mad," he answered, "but I know that thou art wicked and unjust. Look now, than these hunters none braver ever breathed.
But the royall bird of great Jupiter, the Eagle remembring his old service which he had done, when as by the pricke of Cupid he brought up the boy Ganimedes, to the heavens, to be made butler of Jupiter, and minding to shew the like service in the person of the wife of Cupid, came from the high-house of the Skies, and said unto Psyches, O simple woman without all experience, doest thou thinke to get or dip up any drop of this dreadfull water?
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. How, then, am I to let my light shine, if I take pains to hide what I do? The injunction is not to hide what you do from others, but to hide it from yourself. The Master would have you not plume yourself upon it, not cherish the thought that you have done it, or confer with yourself in satisfaction over it.
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