Where Pandarus’ city, like a tower,

Rises begirt with rocky power;

Then upward, still he goes,

Where black-browed mountains round him lower,

And ‘neath chill winter’s grisly bower

The sunless water flows.

Upon a steep rock hoar with eld

A yawning cave his eye beheld,

High-perched; and to that cave no trace

Of road upon the mountain’s face,