The broad and beaten track you tread.

The Peasant.

God grant it were but as he said,

And I’d sit snug at home to-night.

[He and his Son retire eastwards.

Brand.

[Reappears higher up, and listens in the direction in which the Peasant went.]

Homeward they grovel! Thou dull thrall,

If but thy feeble flesh were all,

If any spark of living will