All that blue brilliance, under the eyebrow!

What wilt thou do? Unhand me! Such a way

I have to traverse, all unhappy one!"

"Way—piteous to thy friends, but, most of all,

Me and thy children: ours assuredly

A common partnership in grief like this!"

Whereat they closed about her; but "Let be!

Leave, let me lie now! Strength forsakes my feet.

Hades is here, and shadowy on my eyes

Comes the night creeping. Children—children, now