Some, chill’d with watching, spread their hands

O’er the huge chimney’s dying brands,

While round them, or beside them flung,

At every step their harness[324] rung.

III.

These drew not for their fields the sword,

Like tenants of a feudal lord,

Nor own’d the patriarchal claim

Of Chieftain in their leader’s name;

Adventurers[325] they, from far who roved,