[She rises.]

I will go now; prepare our evening meal;

And waken my husband, my love once.

Nubian

[Musing.] The lightning of the heavens

Lifts an apocalypse:

The dumb night’s lips are scared and wide,

The world is reeling with sound:

Was I deaf before, mute, tied?

What shakes here from lustre-seeded pomegranates