Still thinking of his son forlorn.

Each step was torture, as the road

The traces of the chariot showed,

And as the shadowed sun grows dim

So care and anguish darkened him.

He raised a cry, by woe distraught,

As of his son again he thought.

And judging that the car had sped

Beyond the city, thus he said:

“I still behold the foot-prints made