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