The Eighth Book. Quas potius decuit nostro te inferre sepulchro Petronilla, tibi spargimus has lacrimas Spargimus has lacrimas mæsti monumenta parentis,— Et tibi pro thalamo sternimus hunc tumulum. Sperabam genitor tædas præferre jugales, Et titulo patris jungere nomen avi; Heu! gener est Orcus; quique O dulcissima! por te Se sperabat avum, desinit esse pater. JOACH. BELLAIUS. THALABA THE DESTROYER. THE EIGHTH BOOK. 1. WOMAN. Go not among the Tombs, Old Man! There is a madman there. OLD MAN. Will he harm me if I go? WOMAN. Not he, poor miserable man! But 'tis a wretched sight to see His utter wretchedness. For all day long he lies on a grave, And never is he seen to weep, Nor ever at the hour of prayer And never a word he spake; That I have awaken'd at night OLD MAN. Wherefore has the wrath of God So sorely stricken him? He came a stranger to the land, There came the Angel of Death. |