Stricken rigid to ice all its length.

On amain the black traveller came.

Lo, a chariot, cleaving the storm,

Clove the fountaining lake with a plough,

And the lord of the steeds was in form

He, the God of implacable brow,

Darkness: he: he in person: he raged

Through the wave like a boar of the wilds

From the hunters and hounds disengaged,

And a name shouted hoarsely: his child’s.