Of its four stanzas, Housman tells us that two were ' given ' him ready made ; one was coaxed forth from his subconsciousness an hour or two later ; the remaining one took months of conscious composition.

The Þiðrekssaga tells that the warrior Heime ( Hama in Old English ) takes sides against Eormanric, king of the Goths, and has to flee his kingdom after robbing him ; later in life, Hama enters a monastery and gives them all his stolen treasure.

Whereas Adomnán just tells us that Columba visited Bridei, Bede relates a later, perhaps Pictish tradition, whereby the saint actually converts the Pictish king.

12 years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter he received earlier from his friend General Spielsdorf.

Queensrÿche fared better later the decade, releasing the rock opera Operation: Mindcrime in 1988, which tells a story of a young man, Nikki, awoken from a coma suddenly remembering work done as a political assassin.

Don Quixote tells Sancho and the goatherds about the " Golden Age " of man, reminiscent of both Ovid and the later Rousseau in which property does not exist, and men live in peace.

Yankee officers outside the home question Rhett and he tells them he and the other men had been at Belle Watling's brothel that evening, a story Belle later confirms to the officers.

Several years later, rumor tells Deianira that she has a rival for the love of Heracles.

Its successor, Red Faction: Guerilla, tells the story of another revolt half a century later, on a partially terraformed planet with a breathable atmosphere, against the corporate-funded Earth Defence Force, in the Tharsis region of Mars.

Another tale tells of a man named Wu Liang ( later corrupted to Wu Long, or Oolong ) who discovered oolong tea by accident when he was distracted by a deer after a hard day's tea-picking, and by the time he remembered to return to the tea it had already started to oxidize.

To researcher John Green, Patterson would later characterize the creature's expression as one of " contempt and disgust ... you know how it is when the umpire tells you ' one more word and you're out of the game.

However, Tyrell later tells Roy that the preset life-span is inherently dependent on Nexus-6 biology.

In " Silence in the Library ", while trying to open a wooden door, the Doctor tells Donna that the sonic screwdriver won't work because the door is made of wood, a fact later restated in " The Hungry Earth "; when Rory complains about this, the Doctor counters to not " diss the sonic.

A story recorded by Herodotus, and later by Strabo, Athenaeus, Ovid and the Suda, tells of a relation between Charaxus and the Egyptian courtesan Rhodopis.

A few days later Mary and Fran are at another of Mary ’ s weddings and Fran teases her for her dreamy look before Mary tells her about her movie date.

The 1950s rock-and-roll hit " Hot Rod Lincoln ", later covered in the 1970s by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, tells of an actual race on that hill.

A later myth, when the cult of Osiris gained more authority, tells the story of Anubis, the god of the underworld.

She later tells the other tenants that she only said that to threaten Kyoko into coming back.

* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.

In his book and later film by the same title, America America, he tells how, and why, his family left Turkey and moved to America.

Although Meursault's attorney defends him and later tells Meursault that he expects the sentence to be light, Meursault is alarmed when the judge informs him of the final decision: that he will be decapitated publicly.

Thus this report of a feud between Eadwig and Dunstan could either have been based on a true incident of a political quarrel for power between a young king and powerful church officials who wished to control the king and who later spread this legend to blacken his reputation, or it could be an urban legend ; the Chronicle also tells of Odo putting aside the King's marriage on the grounds Eadwig and his wife were " too related ".

He recounts his two-day experience without any food and tells of meeting Russian " Communists " who, he later concludes, on their disappearance, must be mere swindlers.

The tells, or city mounds, often reveal a long occupation beginning in the Neolithic and ending in the Roman period or later.

In a conversation with Miranda, one character tells her that the nation-states of the world collapsed when electronic communications started using an untraceable relay system that made it impossible to enforce taxes on online transactions ( which was later used as a plot element in another of Stephenson's works, the 1999 novel Cryptonomicon ).

Ithilien was reoccupied by hardy folk during the Watchful Peace, but most of them fled with the beginning of attacks by Orcs and Haradrim several centuries later, and after the return of Sauron to Mordor the land was finally abandoned.

Seven of the Rings of Power forged by the Elven-Smiths were later given by Sauron, who had seized them, to the heads of the seven Dwarf clans ( although the Longbeards maintained that Durin's Ring was given him by Celebrimbor ).

The Dúnedain of Gondor and the Rohirrim were distantly related ( having descended from the same northern stock ), and the people of Gondor describe the Rohirrim as Middle Men, inferior to the Númenóreans in both culture and descent, but superior to the Men of Darkness who had worshipped and served Sauron — and this is stated as fact in The Lord of the Rings, but contradicted in later writings.

Saruman later used the stone to confer with Sauron through the Ithil-stone in Barad-dûr.

Years later, Sauron rises up like Morgoth, and so ‘ ends ’ like Morgoth.

In the First Age, the cunning and malevolent being Sauron had been the chief servant of the evil demigod Melkor ( later called Morgoth ) and he was instrumental in Morgoth's many attempts to become ruler of Middle-earth.

Hundreds of years later, the Men of Númenor decide to capture Sauron to demonstrate their might, unaware of the One Ring and the power Sauron wielded when he wore it.

Sauron later returns as the Necromancer in The Hobbit, and returns later to Barad-dûr by the time of the Lord of the Rings.

In later writings they ceased to be creatures, but are instead Maiar, lesser Ainur like Gandalf or Sauron, spirits of fire whom Melkor had corrupted before the creation of the World.

Several Maiar were associated with Aulë: Sauron, before being corrupted by Melkor ; and Curumo ( Saruman ), who later went to Middle-earth as an Istar to combat Sauron.

The so-called Watchful Peace began in 2063 T. A., when Gandalf went to Dol Guldur and the evil dwelling there ( later known to be Sauron ) fled east.

Isildur cut the Ring from Sauron's hand but refused to destroy it, so the Tower was quickly rebuilt when Sauron returned to Mordor thousands of years later, in T. A.

Sauron captured the lesser rings and used them as instruments of evil in later years, particularly against Men.

It was later revealed he was the leader of the Nazgûl, who were dispersed after the first overthrow of Sauron in at the hands of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, but survived nonetheless.

The city was later retaken and while Isildur, Anárion, and Elendil assaulted Mordor, Isildur's younger sons Aratan and Ciryon were sent to garrison Minas Ithil in order to intercept Sauron if he attempted to escape from Mordor to the west.

Sauron claimed the Ithil-stone and with it he was later able to ensnare Saruman and deceive Denethor, Steward of Gondor, who each had one of the other palantíri.

Several centuries later attacks by Orcs and Haradrim intensified and in 2901 the raids grew so severe that the remainder of the population of Ithilien fled across Anduin and Gondor withdrew from the province, and after the return of Sauron to Mordor the land was finally abandoned.

Supporters of the latter interpretation point to the similar terms " half-orcs " and " goblin-men ", appearing in the same book ( chiefly in the second volume, " The Two Towers "), and " Orc-men " and " Man-orcs ", appearing in later writings ( published in " Morgoth's Ring ") — all applied to the products of Sauron and Saruman's Orc-Man breeding programs.

The rebels became known as the Corsairs of Umbar, and while not themselves Black Númenóreans, they inherited their hatred, and later allied themselves with the Haradrim, and later still with Sauron, against Gondor.

Sauron anticipated his coming and withdrew to the East to remain hidden in secrecy Thus began what later became known as The Watchful Peace, which lasted until, when Sauron finally returned to Dol Guldur after years of hiding.