Even at the pass of Beal ’maha.

But steep and flinty was the road,

And sharp the hurrying pikeman’s goad,

And when we came to Dennan’s Row,

A child might scathless[228] stroke his brow.”

V.

NORMAN.

“That bull was slain: his reeking hide

They stretch’d the cataract beside,

Whose waters their wild tumult toss