without a Tune;

Gleam'd his white teeth, his mammoth tail waved

. darkly to and fro,

As with one complex yell he burst, all claws,

upon the foe.

It thrills me now, that final Miaow—that weird

unearthly din:

Lone maidens heard it far away, and leap'd out

of their skin.

A potboy from his den o'erhead peep'd with a