My boys! whom I have rear’d through many hours

Of silent joys and sorrows, and deep thoughts

Untold and unimagined; let me die

With you, now I have held you to my heart,

And seen once more the faces, in whose light

My soul hath lived for years!

Car. Sweet mother! now

Thou shalt not leave us more.

Abd. Enough of this!

Woman! what seek’st thou here? How hast thou dared