Spying that white, unmoving head amid the scattering throng,

Exclaimed: ‘Of all their broken host one only man I see

Not flying; and I therefore judge him impotent to be

Of use of limb. Go; take alive,’ he cried, ‘and hither fetch

The hoary-haired unmoving man.…’

… A swift battalion went

And, breaking through the hindmost line, where Kellach sat hard by,

Took him alive; and, chair and man uphoisting shoulder high,

They bore him back, his hoary locks and red eyes gleaming far,

The grimmest standard yet displayed that day o’er all the war;