There were brave men, some one has truly said,
  Before Atrides (those were mostly dead
  Behind him) and ere you could e'er occur
  Actaeon lived, Nimrod and Bahram-Gur.
  In strength and speed and daring they excelled:
  The stag they overtook, the lion felled.
  Ah, yes, great hunters flourished before you,
  And—for Munchausen lived—great talkers too.
  There'll be no more; there's much to kill, but—well,
  You have left nothing in the world to tell!