Restrain thy wandering Spirit—Ulric cannot

Have left his native land—thou dost not know,

Though it looks strangely, thy Sire and he

In anger parted—Hope is left us still.

Werner. The best hope that I ever held in youth,140

When every pulse was life, each thought a joy,

(Yet not irrationally sanguine, since

My birth bespoke high thoughts,) hath lured and left me.

I will not be a dreamer in mine age—

The hunter of a shadow—let boys hope: