Pursuit, and flight altern; and for the song

Of larks descending to their grass-bowered homes,

The croak of flesh-gorged ravens, as they slake

Their thirst in hoof-prints filled with gore, disturbs

The stupor of the dying man; while death

Triumphantly sails down the ensanguined stream,

On corses, throned and crowned with shivered boughs,

That erst hung imaged in the crystal tide.

Grahame.

When war the demon lifts his banner high