then with that done , he leapt downwhere there were arrayed and arranged sharply thorns with spaces and rifts in between themand knightly and quietly , whilst still stone-blind and sightless , he skipped his way from one opening to the next one , all without discerning and clearly sighting that there were cutting thorns here and there , and triumphantly and rapidly , he missed the thorns , falling short of their ting and pain , till he had at last pushed forward away from them .