“Thou com’st to claim my guilty soul—

“The Fiends—the Fiends have sent thee!”

And now a Goatherd-Boy was heard—

Swift climbing up the mountain:

A Kid was lost, the fearful hind—

Had rov’d his truant care to find,

By wood-land’s side—and fountain.

And now a murm’ring throng advanc’d,

And howlings echoed round them:

Now Golfre tried the path to pace,