just now at the ending of day.

Ah! what came we forth for to see

that our hearts are so hot with desire?

Is it enough for our rest,

the sight of this desolate strand,

And the mountain-waste voiceless as death

but for winds that may sleep not nor tire?

Why do we long to wend forth

through the length and breadth of a land,

Dreadful with grinding of ice,