Then, with their consorts gathered near,

Wild elephants in sudden fear

Rushed to a distant wood, and shed

An odour round them as they fled.

And every silvan thing that dwelt

Within those shades the terror felt,

Deer, lion, tiger, boar and roe,

Bison, wild-cow, and buffalo.

And when the tumult wild they heard,

With trembling pinions flew each bird,