Soared up where leapt the thunder cry!

Nor ye with feeble wing might dare,

Those hill-tops high, to mount in air.

and he soared off, up, up into the sky till the boaster could not behold him. But no sooner was the Kite left alone to himself than he began to sing again so as to be heard on every side,

I upward fly

I, I alone disdain the air

Till I hang as by a hair

Poised in the sky.

Literally thus.

Kite.Neen (I alone)
Neen a (I alone)
Ta wa e ya (can go up)
Bai bwau
As shau dau
Wa ke ge naun
}(so as to seem as if hanging
by a hair)
O shau wush ko geezhig oong a (from the blue sky.)
Eagle.Au wa nain (Who is this?)
Au wa nain (Who is this?)
Tshe mud je wa wa (with babbling tongue, who)
Ke pim o saing. (boasts of flying so high?)