Doglike, hoglike, horselike now he raced,

Riderless, in ghost across a ground

Flint of breast, blank-faced,

Past the fleshly bound.

XIII.

Smell of brine his nostrils filled with might:

Nostrils quickened eyelids, eyelids hand:

Hand for sword at right

Groped, the great haft spanned.

XIV.