Who can be like this man, that slew his son,

Yet wears his life still proudly, and a soul

Untamed upon his brow?

(After a pause.) There’s one, whose arms

Have borne my children in their infancy,

And on whose knees they sported, and whose hand

Hath led them oft—a vassal of their sire’s;

And I will seek him: he may lend me aid,

When all beside pass on.

DIRGE, (heard without.)