and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,

For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.

And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

And crouched in her midst have droves, Every beast of the nation, Both pelican and hedge-hog in her knobs lodge, A voice doth sing at the window, 'Destruction is at the threshold, For the cedar-work is exposed.'