Where last he took his stand upon that height

Within his palace grounds, there forced to fight

In self-defence or yield to prisoner’s lot;

Restraint his outraged subjects planned. ’T was not

Their wish, e’en now, to slay the wilful man

Whose being throbbed with blood of honored Can.

Aac towered there amid his fallen men,

Defiant, raging, livid, and ’twas then

That one named Pacab flung his arms aside,

Approached the Prince, and as he neared him cried—