And foaming rush’d along the vale;

The Lascar watch’d, with stedfast eyes,

The flash descending quick and pale;

And now again the cavalcade

Pass’d slowly near the upland glade;—

But He was dark, and dark the scene,

The torches long extinct had been;

He call’d, but, in the stormy hour,

His feeble voice had lost its pow’r,

’Till, near a tree, beside the flood,