LUCREZIA.

But the moment....

JUANITO.

Of a sudden
The foe retreated, leaving me: I reached
The rough-hewn gorge....

[Near to her and in a changed voice.

He lay there, naked
He lay....

[Lucrezia folds her arms over her breast as with a close embrace.

—his face under the sky: his wounds
A hero’s—twenty-three; across his loins
A bloodied stone, his life-blood round the rocks,
His hair a weft of red. How beautiful,
And wild and out of memory was his face!
The great wind swept him and the sun rose up ...

LUCREZIA.

They buried him?