About you; and this momentary gleam

Of glory that you think to hold life-fast,

So coming, so shall vanish, as a dream.

Seg. He prophesies; the old man prophesies;

And, at his trumpet’s summons, from the tower

The leash-bound shadows loosen’d after me

My rising glory reach and over-lour—

But, reach not I my height, he shall not hold.

But with me back to his own darkness!

(He dashes toward the throne and is enclosed by the soldiers.)