I see, I hear it.

The great Hebrew's menace is approaching fulfilment.

Our race will be effaced from the earth.

The serpent! Its head is turned toward the southeast.

It will devour the sun when it rises in the morning." The old man's eyes followed the youth's finger, and he, too, perceived a huge, dark mass, whose outlines blended with the dusky night, come surging through the gloom; he, too, heard, with a thrill of terror, the monster's loud roar.
Both stood straining their eyes and ears to pierce the darkness; but instead of gazing upward the star-reader's eye was bent upon the city, the distant sea, and the level plain.