And with one hand clench’d in his tangled hair

And with a sigh as if his heart would break—

[During this Segismund has entered from the fortress, with a torch.

Segismund. Once more the storm has roar’d itself away,

Splitting the crags of God as it retires;

But sparing still what it should only blast,

This guilty piece of human handiwork,

And all that are within it. Oh, how oft,

How oft, within or here abroad, have I

Waited, and in the whisper of my heart