They climb'd the sudden, dark gray tide,

And she sat silent at his side,

And he sat turning many ways:

Sat watching for his wily foe;

At last he baffled him. And yet

His brow gloom'd dark, his lips were set;

He lean'd, he peer'd through boughs, as though

From heart of forests deep and dim

Grim shapes could come confronting him.

A grand, uncommon man was he,