And guide the children and the snow-white hand,
With watchful tendance, to this distant land?”
XXXVII.
Waban replied: “The nimble-foot will go;—
But a gaunt wolf may haunt the hunter’s way,
And he will whet his darts, and string his bow,
And gird his loins as for the battle fray;
The Priest of Chepian ne’er forgets a foe;—
His vengeance lasts until a bloody day
Doth feed the crows, or still a bloodier night