A storm of well-wrought arrows sent.

Then with his pointed shafts that came

With gold and diamond bright as flame,

Dead to the earth the hero threw

The remnant of the demon crew.

Those shafts with feathers bright as gold,

Like flames which wreaths of smoke enfold,

Smote down the fiends like tall trees rent

By red bolts from the firmament.

A hundred shafts he pointed well: