How much we grieve, that business of Only your face became convulsed. We Made early in the convent-His word I found my frame encumbered: a huge pledged-' All fictions, all! fictions of jealousy. If the mountain move not to the prophet, 500 serpent Twined round my chest, but tightest To hear the scream, which you but seemed to utter. For your whole face looked like a mask of torture! Yet a child's image doth indeed pursue me Shrivelled with toil and penury! Raab Kiuprili. Nay! what ails you? Zapolya. A wonderous faintness there comes stealing o'er me. Is it Death's lengthening shadow, who comes onward, Life's setting sun behind him? Raab Kiuprili. Cheerly! The dusk Raab Kiuprili. Heard you then aught Will quickly shroud us. Ere the moon while I was slumbering? be up, Trust me I'll bring thee food! Hunger's tooth has Nay, thou said'st well for that and 30 O'er my own sorrows as my rightful sub.jects. But wherefore, O revered Kiuprili ! wherefore Did my importunate prayers, my hopes and fancies, Force thee from thy secure though sad retreat? Would that my tongue had then cloven to my mouth! But Heaven is just! With tears I conquered thee, And not a tear is left me to repent with! Had'st thou not done already-had'st thou not Raab Kiuprili. Hark! heard you not Suffered-oh, more than e'er man feigned A distant chaunt? Is on the stroke :-for Misery can not add Grief to thy griefs, or Patience to thy sufferance! SONG BY GLYCINE A sunny shaft did I behold, From sky to earth it slanted: And poised therein a bird so boldSweet bird, thou wert enchanted! He sunk, he rose, he twinkled, he trolled Within that shaft of sunny mist; 70 And thus he sang : Adieu! adieu ! Zapolya. Far, far away! Sure 'tis some blest spirit! For since thou slew'st the usurper's emissary That plunged upon us, a more than mortal fear Is as a wall, that wards off the beleaguerer Zapolya. Can not! Oh, what if thou And starves the poor besieged. wert taken from me? [Song again. Raab Kiuprili. It is a maiden's voice! If I turn back and he should be found quick to the cave! dead here, Zapolya. Hark! her voice faulters! [Exit ZAPOLYA. [She creeps nearer and nearer to the cavern. Raab Kiuprili. She must not enter I should go mad!—Again !—'Twas my The cavern, else I will remain unseen! own heart! Mine eyes deceived me not. Heaven leads me on! Now for a blast, loud as a king's defiance, To rouse the monster couchant o'er his ravine! [Blows the horn-then a pause. Another blast! and with another swell To you, ye charmed watchers of this wood! If haply I have come, the rightful heir Of vengeance: if in me survive the spirits Of those, whose guiltless blood flowed streaming here ! [Blows again louder. Still silent? Is the monster gorged? Heaven shield me! 180 Thou, faithful spear! be both my torch In chace or battle won, have given a Thenceforth must darkling flow, and sink And in it the wolf litters!--I invoke |
