V. PARACELSUS ATTAINS
Scene, Salzburg: a cell in the Hospital of St. Sebastian.
1541.
Festus, Paracelsus.
Fest. No change! The weary night is well-nigh spent,
The lamp burns low, and through the casement-bars
Gray morning glimmers feebly: yet no change!
Another night, and still no sigh has stirred
That fallen discolored mouth, no pang relit
Those fixed eyes, quenched by the decaying body,