VI.

Full slowly she revived, and Nial then

An instant left her in the outer air,

While to the chamber he returned again,

And made her butchered kindred next his care.

Joy! joy! Salustian upright sits, and spare

Thy talons, Death, one victim: deep his wound,

But yet not perilous. Nial straight doth tear

His sash away, and swathe it firmly round