With a proud curl o’ the lip—“He’s long since here;

But ye—ye know it not! ’Tis I myself!”

Alex.

Now, Mariamne?

Sameas.

Then, with godless wit

He proved that we’re a Folk of scatter-brains

And he alone has got an uncracked pate.

We did not dwell for naught on the Dead Sea

That is devoid of motion—ebb and flood—