The great bull bellowed back and Lion turned;

His task was now to find where Michael lived; he learned

The farm's direction, and with heavy mind,

Thinking of Mary and her sorrow, rode,

Leaving the offspring of his fields behind.

A last time in his ears the great bull lowed.

Then, shaking up his horse, the young man glowed

To see the unfenced pampas opening out

Grass that makes old earth sing and all the valleys shout.

At sunset on the second day he came