His eyes met mine, he was about to speak,

His hand grew damp—surely he meant to say

He let me love him: in that moment's bliss

I shall forget my people pine for home—

They pass and they repass with pallid eyes!"

I vowed at once a certain vow; this vow—

Not to embrace you till my tribe was saved.

Embrace me!

Dja. [Apart.] And she loved me! Naught remained

But that! Nay, Anael, is the Prefect dead?