For that man has an insolence that I like;

I am beholden to him.

I know the lightning when I see it,

And the toad when I see it...

I warn all pretenders.

Yet before I came it was known of me to the chosen, all that I should do.

Every tree knew it;

Every lion and every leech knew it—

And called out to meet the new enemy,

The new friend...