Of the departed? Raimond!—speak!—forgive!

Raimond! my victor, my deliverer! hear!

—Why, what a world is this! Truth ever bursts

On the dark soul too late: and glory crowns

Th’ unconscious dead. There comes an hour to break

The mightiest hearts!—My son! my son! is this

A day of triumph! Ay, for thee alone!

[He throws himself upon the body of Raimond.

Curtain falls.

ANNOTATIONS ON THE “VESPERS OF PALERMO.”