A proof of knowledge, true! but one, alas! of pride. }

The signs to me were brought, and not my lord,

But I impatient waited not the word;

And much he marvell’d, reading of the night

In which th’ immortal spirit took its flight.

“Yes! I beheld my brother at my bed, }

The hour he died! the instant he was dead— }

His presence now I see! now trace him as he fled. 710}

“Ah! fly me, George, in very pity, fly;

Thee I reject, but yield thee reasons why;