No dirge, mine for myself! The sun I pray to,

Fronting his last light!—to my own avengers—

That from my hateful slayers they exact too

Pay for the dead slave—easy-managed hand's work!

Cho. Alas for mortal matters! Happy-fortuned,—

Why, any shade would turn them: if unhappy,

By throws the wetting sponge has spoiled the picture!

And more by much in mortals this I pity.

The being well-to-do—

Insatiate a desire of this