But, when I heard my country’s music breathe,
I sigh’d to be among her wilds again!
I climb’d a bark’s tall side—an arm grasp’d mine—
Struggling, I turn’d, and ask’d who dared withhold me?
A dark-eyed ruffian answer’d,—’twas Fredolfo!
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In the latter part of the play Adelmar, though a moving force in the action, appears only by glimpses, so that the impression he leaves is the most uniformly favourable of all the personages, being free from the general decline of characterization towards the end. Urilda is altogether more conventional than Adelmar, and does but seldom, by any action of her own, make good the very fine things said about her. In the second act Wallenberg says, seeing her approach:
She comes with all that shrinking bashfulness,
The eloquence of motion, mute, but felt.
The air around her breathes of purity;