To dulness and to time a prey:

But now I rise, I breathe, I live

In you—my representative!

Again the hero’s breast I fire,

Again the tender sigh inspire;

Each side, again, with laughter shake,

And teach the villain-heart to quake;

All this, my son! again I do—

I?—No, my son!—’Tis I, and you.”

While thus the grateful statue speaks,