This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Hero's Tale." In this poem, the hero asks which ring of the divine elixir is in the ring of a sword. It is the ring that contains the second of the three divine elixirs. This ring is the same ring that the first two rings contained. The first ring contains the Holy Grail, the second the Holy Stone, and the third the Stone of Destiny. The three ring contained the first three elixirs, but the ring containing the second elixir contains only the second one.