You helped to win. Give us authentic news
Of your great general! Is he safe and well?
When will he come? Or will he come at all?
[All gather around him, listening eagerly.]
SABALLIDIN:
He comes but now, returning from the field
Where he hath gained a crown of deathless fame!
Three times he led the charge; three times he fell
Wounded, and the Assyrians beat us back.
Yet every wound was but a spur to urge