Soon they cried of a quest at a cárr sìde; + 

The huntsman halloo’d the hounds that gave tongue, + 

Wroth words he utter’d, and wildly he call’d; + 

And the hounds that heard him hasten’d at once, + 

And féll as fást on the tráil, forty together; + 

Then such a deafening din of those dogs in concert + 

Arose, that the rocks rung all about. + 

Hunters them hearten’d with horn and with mouth, + 

And all in a throng they thrust on together, + 

Between a flash in that frith and a fearsome crag; + 

On a knoll, by a cliff, at the carr side, + 

Where the ruggèd rock in a rough knar tumbled, + 

They fared to the finding; the huntsmen them follow’d, + 

And made a cast of that knar and the knot beside it, + 

Till they wist full well that the wild one was there, + 

When the bloodhounds bay’d the beast to announce. + 

Then they beat on the bushes, and bade him break cover, + 

And he sought, with disaster, the searchers athwart him; + 

’Twas a wonder of a swine that swung out upon them, + 

Long sunder’d from the sounder, and sínce grown to age, + 

A fierce boar and fell, and fearsome for bigness. + 

When this grim one grunted, ’twas grievous to many, + 

For three at a thrust he threw to the ground, + 

Then sped forth good speed, nor spited them more. + 

They all hollo’ed “Hi!” and “Hey! hey!” shouted, + 

Hórns to mouth hád, the hunt to recall. + 

Many were the merry mouths of men and of hounds + 

That busk’d after boar, with boast and with clamour, + 

to kill. + 

Full oft he bides the bay + 

And maims the mute pell-mell; + 

He hurts the hounds and they + 

Piteously yowl and yell. + 