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Vespers: after which the monks retire, a chorister leading an old monk who is blind.
PRINCE HENRY. / They are all gone, save one who lingers, / Absorbed in deep and silent prayer. / As if his heart could find no rest, / At times he beats his heaving breast / With clenched and convulsive fingers, / Then lifts them trembling in the air. / A chorister, with golden hair, / Guides hitherward his heavy pace. / Can it be so? Or does my sight / Deceive me in the uncertain light? / Ah no! I recognize that face / Though Time has touched it in his flight, / And changed the auburn hair to white. / It is Count Hugo of the Rhine, / The deadliest foe of all our race, / And hateful unto me and mine!