As frozen drop of wintry dew.
Douglas would speak, but in his breast
His struggling soul his words suppress’d;
Indignant then he turn’d him where
Their arms the brawny yeoman bare,
To hurl the massive bar in air.
When each his utmost strength had shown,
The Douglas rent an earth-fast stone
From its deep bed, then heaved it high,
And sent the fragment through the sky,