Par. What is it you would ask me with that earnest

Dear searching face?

Fest. How feel you, Aureole?

Par. Well:

Well. 'T is a strange thing: I am dying, Festus,

And now that fast the storm of life subsides,

I first perceive how great the whirl has been.

I was calm then, who am so dizzy now—

Calm in the thick of the tempest, but no less

A partner of its motion and mixed up