Where it ceases, slow, with leaps

And ’tis very strange, ’tis said,

How you spy in each of them

Semblance of that Dragon red,

As the oak in bracken-stem.

And ’tis said how each and each:

Which commences, which subsides:

First my Dragon! doth beseech

Her who food for all provides.

And she answers with no sign;