Then I myself must surely ghostly be.

Strader:

Forgive me, friend, ’twas weakness on my part.

Capesius:

Ah, speak but good, not evil, of this hour!

For though thou seemed’st to have lost thyself,

Yet in reality thou wast upraised

Far, far above thyself; and thou didst feel,

Even as I myself full oft have felt.

At such times, howsoe’er one feels oneself