Before the Trosachs’ rugged jaws;

And here the horse and spearmen pause.

While, to explore the dangerous glen,

Dive through the pass the archer men.”

XVII.

“At once there rose so wild a yell

Within that dark and narrow dell,

As all the fiends, from heaven that fell,

Had peal’d the banner cry of hell!

Forth from the pass in tumult driven,