Inexorable laws must have their way. Were any breach of law allowed, who knows Such certainty is safest, we suppose, Trite and true! Yet such a hell of havoc as we saw To-day makes one half dubious of such law; V. When from the beach with swollen corpses strewn More of this people and their land to see— And when in that, and their strange customs versed, And so his way, amused and loitering, made Into the interior far-to slake the thirst Canto the First. The Rescue. 1. Ranolf, after a boar-hunt, his dog killed, fancies an after life for lower animals. 2. A new Italy. 3. His joyous and imaginative temperament. 4. A shriek. 5. Amohia. 6. A rescue. 7. Her story. 8. She returns to the Isle in the Lake. 9. His thoughts of her. I. "GLORIOUS! this life of lake And hill-top! toil and tug through tangled brake, And then such rests as now I take In sunflecked soft cathedral-gloom Of forests immemorial! Noble sport Had not his headlong force impaled That, propped with planted knee and foot, Its butt against a rata-root, From chest to chine right through him passed |