Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book III: The Castle of Llyr (1966), Chapter 19
“Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.”
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Can touch life's height to a finer fire:
Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming
Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason,
One lightning over the chasm runs —
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