Sudden the lightning flashed upon a figure

Moving as a man moves in the slipping mud,

Singing, but not as a man sings, through the storm,

Which could not drown his sounds. Saul bawled “Hi! Hi!”

And the man loomed, naked, vast, and gripped the wheels;

Saul fiercely dug from under; he tugged the wheels;

The mules foamed straining, straining.

Suddenly they went.

Saul and the man leaped in: Saul, miserably sodden,

Marvelled at the large cheer in a naked glistening man;