But, swift as dreams, myself I found Upon the whirl, were sank the ship, I moved my lips: the pilot shrieked, The holy hermit raised his eyes I took the oars; the pilot's boy, Laughed loud and long, and all the while 'Ha ha!' quoth he- full plain I see, The devil knows how to row.' And now all in my own countrée The hermit stepped forth from the boat 'O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man !' The hermit crossed his brow. 'Say quick,' quoth he, 'I bid thee say What manner of man art thou?' Forthwith this frame of mind was wrenched With a woeful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale, And then it left me free. Since then, at an uncertain hour That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told I pass, like night, from land to land; What loud uproar bursts from that door! O wedding-guest! this soul hath been O sweeter than the marriage-feast, To walk together to the kirk, While each to his Great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths, and maidens gay. Farewell, farewell; But this I tell To thee, thou wedding-guest! He prayeth well who loveth well Both man, and bird, and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best, The Mariner whose eye is bright, He went like one, that hath been stunned, A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow moru. REMORSE; A TRAGEDY, IN FIVE ACTS. DRAMATIS PERSONE. Marquis Valdez, Father to the two brothers, and Donna Teresa's Guardian. Don Alvar, the eldest son. Don Ordonio, the youngest son. Monviedro, a Dominican and Inquisitor. Zulimez, the faithful attendant on Alvar. Isidore, a Moresco Chieftain, ostensibly a Christian. Familiars of the Inquisiti m. Naomi. Moors, Servants, &c. Donna Teresa, an Orphan Heiress. Alhadra, Wife to Isidore. Time. The reign of Philip II., just at the close of the civil wars against the Moors, and during the heat of the persecution which raged against them, shortly after the edict which forbade the wearing of Moresco apparei under pain of death. REMORSE. АСТ І. SCENE I.-The Sea Shore on the Coast of Granada. DON ALVAR, wrapt in a Boat-cloak, and ZULIMEZ (a Moresco), both as just landed. Zul. No sound, no face of joy to welcome us! Zul. Then claim your rights in it! O, revered Don Yet, yet give up your all too gentle purpose. It is too hazardous! reveal yourself, And let the guilty meet the doom of guilt! Alv. Remember, Zulimez! I am his brother: Injured, indeed! O deeply injured! yet Ordonio's brother. Zul. Nobly-minded Alvar! This sure but gives his guilt a blacker dye. Alv. The more behoves it, I should rouse within him Remorse! that I should save him from himself. A Zul. Remorse is as the heart in which it grows : |