Unman me not: the hour will not allow

A tear; I am thine whatever intervenes!"530

"Right," quoth Ben; "that will do for the marines."[399]

CANTO THE THIRD.

I.

The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,

Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,

Had ceased; and sulphury vapours upward driven

Had left the Earth, and but polluted Heaven: