When here, but three days since, I came,

Bewilder’d in pursuit of game,

All seem’d as peaceful and as still

As the mist slumbering on yon hill;

Thy dangerous Chief was then afar,

Nor soon expected back from war.

Thus said, at least, my mountain guide,

Though deep, perchance, the villain lied.”—

“Yet why a second venture try?”—

“A warrior thou, and ask me why!—