Where, bruised and shattered, in a tide

Of rushing blood, the demon died.

King Báli saw the lifeless corse,

And bending, with tremendous force

Raised the huge bulk from where it lay,

And hurled it full a league away.

As through the air the body flew,

Some blood-drops, caught by gales that blew,

Welled from his shattered jaw and fell

By Saint Matanga's hermit cell: