6

“Who is it?” he said. “The loved one, the long lost.”

He stared upon her. “Truly?”—“Truly indeed.”

“Oh, lady, you come late. I am tempest-tossed,

Broken and wrecked. I am dying. Look, I bleed.

Why have you left me thus and given no heed

To all my prayers?—left me to be the game

Of all deceits?”—“You should have asked my name.”