He too would fight! Nor had he far to seek

Amid the driftwood strewn about the sand

For weapons suited to a brawny hand

With such a purpose. Armed with club and stone

He forged ahead into the battle zone,

And from a screening thicket spied his foes.

He saw a bison carcass black with crows,

And over it a welter of black wings,

And round about, a press of tawny rings

That, like a muddy current churned to foam