No very great way from a bishop’s abode.

But first, as he flew, I forgot to say,

That he hovered a moment upon his way

To look upon Leipsic plain;

And so sweet to his eye was its sulphury glare,

And so soft to his ear was the cry of despair,

That he perched on a mountain of slain;

And he gazed with delight from its growing height,

Nor often on earth had he seen such a sight,

Nor his work done half as well: