There is but young gleve

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  • There is but one God: the first half of the Islamic shahadah, or profession of faith → it forms part of the daily prayers (salat) which devout Muslims are obliged to recite five times a day
  • Glaube: (German) faith, belief
  • Globe: the Globe Theatre, one of London's Bankside theatres, in which several of Shakespeare's plays were premiered
  • gleve (glaive): a lance or spear; a sword; a soldier armed with a gleve
  • claidheamh: (Irish) a sword (pronounced cleeve)
  • glebe: land, earth, soil → dry land appears after the deluge which ends FW
  • young love: perhaps ironic comparison with grieve?
  • Eve