On wounds with fevered joy that more profusely bled.

XVI.

“But this is not a time,”—he started up,

And smote his breast with woe-denouncing hand—

“This is no time to fill the joyous cup,

The Mammoth comes,—the foe,—the Monster Brandt,[49]

With all his howling desolating band;—

These eyes have seen their blade and burning pine

Awake at once, and silence half your land.

Red is the cup they drink; but not with wine: