Through the still clouds and on the breathless air,

Commanding to withhold! Earth has no hope:

It rests with Him.

Elm. Thou canst not tell me this!

Thou, father of my sons, within whose hands

Doth lie thy children’s fate.

Gon. If there have been

Men in whose bosoms nature’s voice hath made

Its accents as the solitary sound

Of an o’erpowering torrent, silencing