The stroke of the skilled performer could make it mourn a funeral dirge, voice the nuptial joy, throb the pageant's march, and roar the ambush alarm.

And then disgorges wain and steeds, And swords and javelins bright; Then, as the dreadful dragon bleeds, Up starts the warrior-knight, And from his place of ambush leaps, And, brandishing his blade, The weapon in the brain he steeps, And splits the monster's head.

'Why cannot the ear be closèd to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile? Why are eyelids stored with arrows ready drawn, Where a thousand fighting men in ambush lie, Or an eye of gifts and graces showering fruits and coinèd gold? Why a tongue impressed with honey from every wind? Why an ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw creations in? Why a nostril wide inhaling terror, trembling, and affright?

"Major," burst in a bugler small, "The fellow we left in Loudon grass Sir slyboots with the inward bruise, His voice I heardthe very same Some watchword in the ambush pass; Ay, sir, we had him in his shoes We caught himMosbybut to lose!" "Go, go!these saddle-dreamers!

Then go with speed, and strictly search the shore, From yonder headland to Diana's grove: Forbear to violate its sacred depths, A watchful ambush set, attack and seize,