The prophet with a comrade danced all night
Around the flame, and howling, did adjure
His manittoo that most abhorred the light
To give him aid, and, by or force or fraud,
His hated neighbor drive once more abroad.
XXI.
War! war! he threatened:—and when morning came,—
Though quenched the fire,—upon the margin he,
All trim for strife, bent his gigantic frame
O’er Seekonk’s severing flow, and toward the lea