When the soul is parch’d like mine! Away!
I have join’d these men because they war with man,
And all his hollow pomp! Will you go hence?
(Fiercely.) Why do I talk thus with a murderer? Ay,
This is the desert, where true words may rise
Up unto heaven i’ the stillness! Leave it me!—
The free wild desert!
Arab Chief enters.
Arab. Stranger, we have shared
The spoil, forgetting not——A Christian here!