The frozen Bear wheels slowly overhead?
Or in that farthest land whose shores are washed1140
By the Hesperian sea? What air is this
I breathe? What soil supports my weary frame?
For surely have I come again to earth.
[His eyes fall on his murdered children.]
Whence came those bloody corpses in my house?
Do I behold them, or not even yet
Have those infernal visions left my mind?1145
Even on earth the ghostly shapes of death