“Come, leap on your coursers fleet,

For here comes the smell of some baptized flesh,

And the sounding of baptized feet.”—

But oh! the fire that burns, and maun burn;

For the time that is gone will never return.

VI.

On a steed as white as the new-milked milk,

The Elf-queen leaped with a bound,

And young Elphin a steed like December snow

’Neath him at the word he found.