Of steel on rock, and challenge: “Who comes here?”

And as he heard it, Dymer at one bound

Stood in the stranger’s shadow, with the spear

Between them. And his human face came near

That larger face. “What watch is this you keep?”

Said Dymer, “On the edge of such a deep.”

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And answer came, “I watch both night and day

This frontier ... there are beasts of the upper air

As beasts of the deep sea ... one walks this way