Then drops and is seen no more.
It seems like the reverse of the figure in the “Iliad,” where the armed Diomed is described:
Forth from his helm and shield a fire-light
Then flashed, like autumn star that brightest shines
When newly risen from his ocean bath.
And further, when we read of the swallows that
Wove and rewove their crooked flight around the gutters,
While in shadows malarious the brown sparrows were chattering;
and how there comes
through the humid air