Mars, now Momus—and when bent to storm
A fortress, Harlequin in uniform.[408]
LVI.
The day before the assault, while upon drill—
For this great conqueror played the corporal—
Some Cossacques, hovering like hawks round a hill,
Had met a party towards the Twilight's fall,
One of whom spoke their tongue—or well or ill,
'T was much that he was understood at all;