With all my limbs stretch’d out at length:

I thought to fright thee from the heath,

And check thy bold advance;

But vain my threat’ning size and teeth

Against thy sword and lance.

“I trembled for thy hammer too

Forged in the gloomy dwarfs’ abode;

He whom that strikes, full well I know,

Is forthwith deluged in his blood.

By strange illusions I inclined