A moment snuff’d the tainted gale,[10]

A moment listen’d to the cry,

That thicken’d as the chase drew nigh;

Then, as the headmost foes appear’d,

With one brave bound the copse he clear’d,

And, stretching forward free and far,

Sought the wild heaths of Uam-Var.[11]

III.

Yell’d on the view the opening[12] pack;

Rock, glen, and cavern, paid them back;