A black lynx snarled and pricked a tufted ear,

Lust of my blood inflamed his yellow balls;

I cried and threw my staff and he was gone,

and then, at the end of the pass, he met Lazarus. See how vividly the scenery is realised—

I crossed a ridge of short, sharp, broken hills

Like an old lion's cheek-teeth. Out there came

A moon made like a face with certain spots,

Multiform, manifold and menacing:

Then a wind rose behind me. So we met

In this old sleepy town at unaware