T' embrace my son?

Kent. [Crossing to her] We'll ask no leave, my mother.

Do dreams take flesh, and prayers become alive?

For I have dreamed and prayed to see your face,

Though but in vision, thinking you in Heaven;

And all my life your voice like far off singing

Has followed me. Sometimes it seemed 'twould near

If I might wait in silence, wooing it,

But life that waits no longing pushed me on

With the old loss new in my heart.