Then, touch’d with pity and remorse,

He sorrow’d o’er the expiring horse.

“I little thought, when first thy rein

I slack’d upon the banks of Seine,[28]

That Highland eagle e’er should feed

On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed!

Woe worth[29] the chase, woe worth the day,

That costs thy life, my gallant gray!”

X.

Then through the dell his horn resounds,