Then,
brother dear, I pray you come and mingle in our festival.'
'Why should we feast?'
'Ah! is it not in thy dear name these lamps are lit, these garlands
hung? To-day to us a prince is given, to-day----'
'A prince without a kingdom.'
'But not without that which makes kingdoms precious, and which full many
a royal heart has sighed for, willing subjects, David.'
'Slaves, Miriam, fellow-slaves.'
'What we are, my brother, our God has willed; and let us bow and
tremble.'
'I will not bow, I cannot tremble.'
'Hush, David, hush! It was this haughty spirit that called the vengeance
of the Lord upon us.'
'It was this haughty spirit that conquered Canaan.'
'Oh, my brother, my dear brother! they told me the dark spirit had
fallen on thee, and I came, and hoped that Miriam might have charmed it.
What we may have been, Alroy, is a bright dream; and what we may be, at
least as bright a hope; and for what we are, thou art my brother. In thy
love I find present felicity, and value more thy chance embraces and thy
scanty smiles than all the vanished splendour of our race, our gorgeous
gardens, and our glittering halls.'
'Who waits without there?'
'Caleb.'
'Caleb!'
'My lord.
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