Our dear, dear Lord—nor grudge to us our share
In this high suffering”—so they all did say—
“What could we wish more goodly or more fair,
Than that when men hereafter shall declare
Thy noble acts, that they should then as well
Of us thy servants and true comrades tell?”
XXXVI.
But he to them—“We know not what shall be,
Nor whither these things tend—if that we bore