Sar. Mark! he weeps.

Tell. Were he my son,

He would not shed a tear. He would remember

The cliff where he was bred, and learned to scan

A thousand fathoms’ depth of nether[513] air;

Where he was trained to hear the thunder talk,

And meet the lightning, eye to eye, where last

We spoke together, when I told him death

Bestowed the brightest gem that graces life,

Embraced for virtue’s sake. He shed a tear!