Because his flocks are folded.

Didymus. Ah, not I!

My star is withered; I am man no more.

Sigh after sigh the builder Grief takes up,

To heighten over me her gradual arch.

The Child. An arch of entrance to a generous garden,

Where spirits and the moonlit waters are.

Take comfort!

Didymus. Thou art a strange child, methinks,

To say that too wise word.