II
His crimson form, with clang and chime,
Flashed on each murk and meeting-time,
And kings invoked, for rape and raid,
His fearsome aid in rune and rhyme.
His crimson form, with clang and chime,
Flashed on each murk and meeting-time,
And kings invoked, for rape and raid,
His fearsome aid in rune and rhyme.
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present
