To hear thee speak, and see thy opening eyes,
Stopped, for a moment, his impetuous course,
And all my mind was happiness and thee:—
But now," etc.,
"My powers are blasted;
'Twist death and love I'm torn, I am distracted;
But death is strongest."
And then, to give a chance for the manoeuvre beloved by dying actors,—that getting up and falling back into the arms of the actress kneeling by him, with a proper amount of gasping and eyes rolling in delirium,—the stage Romeo adds:—
"ROM. She is my wife,—our hearts are twined together:—
Capulet, forbear:—Paris, loose your hold:—