Still snaps with helpless wrath and swelling heart;1095

So he, though held in that strong foeman's grasp,

Stood firm, defiant. Then the crowd of men,

And leaders, and Ulysses' self, were moved.

But he alone wept not of all the throng

Who wept for him. And now Ulysses spake

In priestly wise the words of fate, and prayed,1100

And summoned to the rite the savage gods;

When suddenly, on self-destruction bent,

The lad sprang o'er the turret's edge, and plunged