Her look glanced wildly o’er the glen.

XXV.

“The toils are pitch’d, and the stakes are set,

Ever sing merrily, merrily;

The bows they bend, and the knives they whet,

Hunters live so cheerily.

“It was a stag, a stag of ten,[266]

Bearing its branches sturdily;

He came stately down the glen,

Ever sing hardily, hardily.