Lying in the cavern uncared-for entirely, Rusting to ruin: they rued then but little That they hastily hence hauled out the treasure, The dear-valued jewels; the dragon eke pushed they, The worm o’er the wall, let the wave-currents take him, The waters enwind the ward of the treasures. There wounden gold on a wain was uploaded, A mass unmeasured, the men-leader off then, The hero hoary, to Whale’s-Ness was carried.