His valour onward. In the last attack

He rode before us as the crested wave

That heads the flood; and lo, our enemies

Were broken like a dam of river-reeds,

Burst by the torrent, scattered, swept away!

But look! the Assyrian king in wavering flight

Is lodged like driftwood on a little hill,

Encircled by his guard, and stands at bay.

Then Naaman, followed hotly by a score

Of whirlwind riders, hammers through the hedge