And the echoes ceased not for a while, even after that the
Monster did be utter quiet; for truly they came presently from far
upward and downward of the Gorge, out of all the eternity of the
night, and to be as that they came backward very faint out of
lonesome miles, and out of the strange deepness of unknown caverns
of the world. And so in the end to silence; and the far bottom of
the Gorge to be filled with a white and horrid hill, very dreadful,
and that did yet quiver to show the slowness of Death. And alway a
dreadful reek and stinking to fill all the air, even unto the
height, as of the grave.
And I stood upward in that far, high place, and held the Maid
very strong and tender; and she to have covered her ears from that
dreadful crying; and to be yet shaken with the grea
