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So they brought him to the great 



city, the Monarch born, in chains. 

 They put him in a cage not merely 

 strong enough for a lion, but thrice 

 as strong, and once a rope gave way 

 as the huge one strained his bonds. 

 "He is loose/' went the cry, and an 

 army of onlookers and keepers fled; 

 only the small man with the calm eye 

 and the big man of the hills were 

 stanch, so the Monarch was still 

 held. 



Free in the cage, he swung round, 

 looked this way and that, then heaved 

 his powers against the triple angling 

 steel and wrenched the cage so not 

 a part of it was square. In time he 

 clearly would break out. They dragged 

 the prisoner to another that an ele- 

 phant could not break down, but it 

 stood on the ground, and in an hour 

 the great beast had a cavern into the 



