Fix’d on me thus! Away!

Elm. Thou hast seen this,

Thou hast done this—and yet thou liv’st?

Her. I live!

And know’st thou wherefore? On my soul there fell

A horror of great darkness, which shut out

All earth, and heaven, and hope. I cast away

The spear and helm, and made the cloister’s shade

The home of my despair. But a deep voice

Came to me through the gloom, and sent its tones