SECOND SLAVE: Yea, at the stroke

One slave lies dead--a hundred kings are born;

For every man that breathes will be a king;

Vast empires, beaten-dust beneath his feet,

Will rise again and teem with kingly men,

When he, their death, is dead

FIRST SLAVE: How still he sleeps!

The tempest shrieks to wake him, yet he slumbers.

As seas that foam against unyielding scars,

The mad wind storms the castle, wall and tower,