Which shed an incense o’er the inner part;
And warders stood thereon, each with a dart,
Fierce in their look and ghastly in their mien:
And farther down a girdle, red and green,
Of furious fire, revolved around the shroud
Which hid the gods[133] from the obsequious crowd:
And where, within, the arbitrators stay’d
For one whole hour, intent upon the dead—
As to the burial of the god, and how
He should be welcom’d in the realms below;—