[283] “La voilà, telle que la mort nous l’a faite!”—Bossuet, Oraisons Funèbres.
Scene IX.—The walls of the city.
Hernandez—A few citizens gathered round him.
Her. Why, men have cast the treasures, which their lives
Had been worn down in gathering, on the pyre;
Ay, at their household hearths have lit the brand,
Even from that shrine of quiet love to bear
The flame which gave their temples and their homes
In ashes to the winds! They have done this,
Making a blasted void where once the sun