XXXVI.

"Can this be Death? then what is Life or Death? Speak!" but he spoke not: "wake!" but still he slept:-- "But yesterday and who had mightier breath? A thousand warriors by his word were kept In awe: he said, as the Centurion saith, 'Go,' and he goeth; 'come,' and forth he stepped. The trump and bugle till he spake were dumb-- And now nought left him but the muffled drum."[ey]