Your soul is forfeit to those agencies,

Right rathe who are to rend it from the flesh.

And while that hour of midnight sounds a din

Of hurrying hoofs and shouting outriders—

Six snorting steeds postilioned roll a stage

Black and with groaning wheels of spinning fire,

"Room there!—ho! ho!—who bars the mountain-way!

On over him!"—but fear not nor fare forth,—

'Tis but the last trick of your bounden slave:

And ere the red moon strives from dingy clouds