[Looking fixedly before him.]

But if he might? What “Isaac’s Fear”

Once ventured, He may venture here.

[Shakes off the thought.]

No, no, my sacrifice is made,

The calling of my life gainsaid—

Like the Lord’s thunder to go forth

And rouse the sleepers of the earth.

Sacrifice! Liar! there was none!

I miss’d it when my Dream was done,