Hugh dreamed of gnawing at the bloody feast.

Along about the blanching of the east,

When sleep is weirdest and a moment’s flight,

Remembered coextensive with the night,

May teem with hapful years; as light in smoke,

Upon the jumble of Hugh’s dreaming broke

A buzz of human voices. Once again

He rode the westward trail with Henry’s men—

Hoof-smitten leagues consuming in a dust.

And now the nightmare of that broken trust