Therewith, and pausing not, like one distraught, Or one goaded, and wildly seeking fast Enough before the goad to fly, which flies Only the faster, following, for his speed, And pricks the harder--so Saul broke away And left Gamaliel on his roof alone Astonished. Swiftly now, yet with a haste As of one wishing to leave far behind Some spot abhorred, much more than as of one Eager a goal before him to attain, Say rather as of one insanely fierce Somewhither, anywhither, from himself Pursuing hard himself, to fly, Saul flew Back toward his dwelling. At the door arrived, He well-nigh stumbled--for his hasting feet Against some shapeless heap struck that alive Seemed, for it moved, and from the threshold, where He in a kind of ambush crouching lay, Slowly into the semblance of a man, Under Saul's eyes down bent, upgrew--Shimei! 'Sin coucheth at the door!' thought Saul; he thought Half of himself, as half of Shimei, For, 'If thou doest not well, thou Saul!' thought he, Then, "Reptile! How beneath my heel should I His serpent head have bruised!" hissed hotly out Between his set teeth, and perused the man. Half under breath this, then to him aloud: "What art thou? Imp of hell spawned hither new Up from the pit? Avaunt! I loathe thee hence!" "Nay, brother Saul," grinned Shimei, therefore pleased Thus spurned to be, because the spurning was With anguish of disgust to him who spurned, Malevolently yet storing reserve Of hatred and revenge therefor, to be Afterward feasted when the time should come, "Nay, brother Saul, you look with eyesight dazed From undersleeping, and from rash surprise At this encounter. I am Shimei, Your special coadjutor tried and true. I am a little early, I confess-- Or late, which shall I call it? early and late-- Like moral good and evil, Saul--ofttimes Change places with your point of view--become The one the other, as you look at them.