On a Thibetan precipice

(It was Thibet, I think),

A place of snow and black abyss;

We lay on rock—mid wind and sky—

Above a beetling brink.

For lo, along the ridge there fed

The sheep that ne'er a shepherd know

Save the shrill wind of morn,

Five "Oves Ammon" of the snow;

I saw the big ram lift his head,