O’er yonder home of mine. But tell me, now,

Does every cloud that hovers o’er our heads

Bear in its bosom such a wealth of love?

Sel. Alas! Sir Ethais, we are too few

To work the good that we could wish to work.

Thou hast seen black and angry thunder-clouds

That spit their evil fire at flocks and herds,

And shake with burly laughter as they watch

The trembling shepherds count their shriveled dead?

These are our enemies, sir knight, and thine.