IIÔ J. 0. É. DONNKR. 



Akt II, Se. 1: 



Sar. There's somethiiig sweet in my uncertainty 

 I would not change for your Chaldean lore; 

 Besides, I know of thèse i) ail clay can know 

 Of aught above it, or below it — nothing. 

 I See their brilliancy and feel their beauty — 

 When they shine on my grave I shall know neither. 



Akt IIL Se. 1: 



Sar. — — — — and, if it be so, 



And I return not — 

 Myr. Still we raeet again. 



Sar. How? 

 Myr. In the spot where all must meet at last — 



In Hades! if there be, as I believe, 



A shore beyond the Styx: and if there be not. 



In ashes. 



Akt IV, Se. 1: 



Sar. • Oh, Myrrha! if 



Sleep shows such things, what may not death disclose?^) 



Akt V, Se. 1: 



Sar. If not, me raeet again soon, — if the spirit 

 Wilhin US lives beyond . . . 



Sar. Hence, and be happy: trust me, I am not 

 "Soio to be piticd; or far more for what 

 Is past than present; — for the future, 'tis 

 In the hands of the deities, if such 

 There be: I shall know soon. 



') I. e. the stars. 



^) Mag nicht die eigene Auslebt des Dichters in folgender Autwort Myrrbas eutbalteu sein 

 Meine Darstellung dieses Gegenstandes spricht für die Bejahung dieser Frage: 



If there be indeed 

 A shore where mind survives, 't will be as mind, 

 All uniucorporate: or if there flits 

 A shadow of this cumbrous elog of clay, 

 Which stalks, methinks, between our souls and heaveu, 

 And fetters iis to earth — at least the phautom, 

 Whate'er it have to fear, will not fear death. 



