In this degraded land. Its very skies,

That smile as if but festivals were held

Beneath their cloudless azure, weigh me down

With a dull sense of bondage, and I pine

For freedom’s charter’d air. I would go forth

To seek my noble father: he hath been

Too long a lonely exile, and his name

Seems fading in the dim obscurity

Which gathers round my fortunes.

Con. Must we part?