From deadly shafts which rent and tore,

From Khara's clanging bowstring shots,

The prince's wrath waxed wondrous hot.

His hand upon his bow that best

Of mighty archers firmly pressed,

And from the well-drawn bowstring, true

Each to its mark, six arrows flew.

One quivered in the giant's head,

With two his brawny shoulders bled;

Three, with the crescent heads they bore,