We strive with fierce impatience, which but lays

Our own frail spirits prostrate?

(After a long pause.) Now I know

Thy hand, my God!—and they are soonest crush’d

That most withstand it! I resist no more.

[She rises.

A light, a light springs up from grief and death,

Which with its solemn radiance doth reveal

Why we have thus been tried!

Gon. Then I may still