I envy them because they are at rest!

Would I were with them!

Hyp. Thou wilt be soon.

Vic. It cannot be too soon. My happiest day

Will be that of my death. O, I am weary

Of the bewildering masquerade of Life,

Where strangers walk as friends, and friends as strangers;

Where whispers overheard betray false hearts;

And through the mazes of the crowd we chase

Some form of loveliness, that smiles, and beckons,