With all your tops a vast antiphony,

Demanding and responding in God's praise!

Hers ye are now, not mine! Farewell—farewell!


Scene II. Mildred's Chamber. Mildred alone.

Mil. He comes not! I have heard of those who seemed

Resourceless in prosperity,—you thought

Sorrow might slay them when she listed; yet

Did they so gather up their diffused strength