O'er-rioting chin, cheek and throat and chest,—

His brown meridional temperament

Told him—or rather pricked into his sense

Plainer than language—"Pleasant station here!

Youth, strength, and lustihood can sleep on turf

Yet pace the stony platform afterward:

First signal of a foe and up they start!

Saint Eldobert, at all such vanity,

Nay—sinfulness, had shaken head austere.

Had he? But did Prince Vertgalant? And yet,