Unarmed, and hard beset.

Nor how, when round the frosty pole,

The northern dawn was red,

The mountain-wolf and wild-cat stole,

To banquet on the dead;

Nor how, when strangers found his bones,

They dressed the hasty bier,

And marked his grave with nameless stones,

Unmoistened by a tear.

But long they looked, and feared and wept,