But yet he quelled each symptom of surprise,
And thus to Waban: “Brother, be your ear
Quick as the beaver’s, and your searching eyes
Like to the eagle’s, and, the foeman near,
Be your heart bolder than the panther’s, when
He slays the growling bear and drags him to his den.”
XIX.
They left the steep, and, o’er the woodland plain,
Passed with all speed the tender group could make;
They ford the rivers, and their course maintain