And we came presently to a place where a great ledge did be,
that jutted out from the mighty cliff, and was surely a huge way
above the Gorge bottom. And the ledge sloped, and there were on the
ledge, great stones and boulders that did make lodgement there
through eternity.
And I lookt very careful to our way, and saw that we did be in
the path of a mighty rock that was over-nigh unto the edge of the
shelf-place, and did put fear upon me, in that it seemed that it
should come down with great thundering upon us, if that we but
shook the place where it did be.
And I caught the Maid very swift and gentle, and shaped our path
unto one side of that great rock, and did presently lose my fear,
when that we did come safe from under it.
And in a minute after, we were come upward upon t
