Their offspring henceforth, as the free wild birds

Foster their young: when these can mount alone,

Dissolving nature’s bonds, why should it not

Be so with us?

Raim. O father! now I feel

What high prerogatives belong to Death.

He hath a deep though voiceless eloquence,

To which I leave my cause. “His solemn veil

Doth with mysterious beauty clothe our virtues,

And in its vast oblivious folds, for ever