XXXV.

To Rhune’s enormous sides the foemen fled, Where ’neath Clausel the Gaul doth muster strong. The Hermitage upon the mountain’s head Is thick with arméd men,--though Fate should wrong, Full stern resolved the contest to prolong. By others not less fierce are held his flanks; To Sarre and to Ascain extends the throng. A lower ridge the greater Rhune embanks, And this too bristles o’er with Gallia’s hostile ranks.