Hour after hour, unmarked by danger near,

The pass he watches for the savage priest,

And still, with eyes turned tow’rd the flame, doth hear

Whatever steps the rustling leaves molest;

And oft he thought that through the brake he saw

The waving fox-tail of the grim Pawaw.

XLII.

At last within the hollow forest rose

Strange sounds that were unmeaning to his ear;—

As if there human hands were breaking boughs