His grievous loss with joys of sway,

And see with dull unpitying eye

So brave and good a brother die?

His lofty soul was nobly blind:

My death alas, he ne'er designed;

But I, urged blindly on by hate,

Sought with his life my rage to sate.

He smote me with a splintered tree:

I groaned aloud and turned to flee,

From stern reproaches he forbore,