Let me be mangled sore with agony!

And be so cursed; so stricken by the spell

Of my heart’s frenzy, that a living hell

Be burning there!—back! back if thou art mad—

Methought thou wast, but thou art only sad.

Is this thy child, old man? look, look, and see!

In truth it is a piteous thing for thee

To become childless—well a-well, go by!

Is there no grave? The quiet sea is nigh,

And I will bury her below the moon: