And one was sullen with the lust to kill,

And one went crooning of the moon-wooed vast;

For each the many-fathomed peace at last,

But oh the boon of singing on the way!

So came these in the golden fall of day

Unto a sudden turn in the ravine,

Wherefrom Hugh saw a flat of cluttered green

Beneath the further bluffs of the Moreau.

With sinking heart he paused and gazed below

Upon the goal of so much toil and pain.