Answering, with imprecation dread,

“Sunk be his home in embers red!

And cursed be the meanest shed

That e’er shall hide the houseless head,

We doom to want and woe!”

A sharp and shrieking echo gave,

Coir-Uriskin,[188] thy Goblin-cave!

And the gray pass where birches wave

On Beala-nam-bo.[189]

XI.