Chapter 8 No.8

He stood as erect as that tent-prop, both arms stretched out wide

On the great cross-support in the center, that goes to each side;

He relaxed not a muscle, but hung there as, caught in his pangs30

And waiting his change, the king-serpent all heavily hangs,

Far away from his kind, in the pine, till deliverance come

With the springtime-so agonized Saul, drear and stark, blind and dumb.