Upon his face, and wakened him from sleep.
“What is it, dear?” he said. “What hast thou seen?
Tell me, why dost thou weep and tremble so?”
“In this wild place a wonder I have seen.
Forty wild bulls there were that came to drink
At yonder spring, and with them was one cow.
Then raged a fearful fight among the bulls;
And the gray bull, victorious o’er the rest,
Took him the cow. The thing reminded me
Of our own case—the forty horsemen slain—