Loose her, and let her rise.
(One of the women takes up the dirge.)
Hush, O hush thee, Magdalena!
Something I would ask the child;
Sooner, haply, than her mother,
She will give me answer mild.
At her head the wailing mother
Sobs and shrieks in grief so wild.
VOCERO ON THE DEATH OF CÆSARIO AND CAPPATO.[I]
Jesus, Joseph, and Marie,