Said a voice amid the host,

He is Death that weds a ghost,

Else a ghost that weds with Death?

Ildico's chill little hand

Shuddering he beheld: austere

Stared, as one who would command

Sight of what has filled his ear:

Plucked his thin beard, laughed disdain.

Feast, ye Huns! His arm he raised,

Like the warrior, battle-dazed,