The king, submissive, kept in royal state

And splendour: most of all, honour and wealth

Shall crown the House of Rimmon, and his priest,--

Yea, and his priestess. For we two will rise

Upon the city's fall. The common folk

Shall suffer; Naaman shall sink with them

In wreck; but I shall rise, and you shall rise

Above me! You shall climb, through incense-smoke,

And days of pomp, and nights of revelry,

Glorious rites and ecstasies of love,