I'll go to bed and sleep!'

The Rodenstein in grimmest scorn

Glared o'er his horse's mane;

Then thrice he blew his hunting horn

With thundering refrain:

'Rouse there! rouse out o' th' house, there!

Rouse out your runaway!

That lame, tame guest, ye cursed crew,

Belongs to me, I say.'

A shudder swept across that guest