With every thew astrain;

The dappled panther; the brown-eyed gazelle,

Butting with black horns through the tangled brake

The nimble hare, alert, with pricked-up ears;

The tiger, crouched, with yellow eyes afire;

The shaggy mountain-goat,

Perched on the utmost crag,

Against the afterglow of lucent ruby,

Or, poised with bunching hoofs

In mid-spring over a dark, yawning chasm;