They spurr'd along the beast that loved me well,

Till red were his white sides; I following,

Wrath in my heart, their evil deeds to tell

In Ilios, at the footstool of the King.

"But ere they came to the God-builded wall,

They spied a meadow by the water-side,

And there the men of Troy were gathered all

For joust and play; and Priam's sons defied