-Of what, pray, ever jealous?
Off! Off!
For why the ladder?
Would you get in?
To heart in-clamber?
To mine own secretest
Conceptions in-clamber?
Shameless one! you unknown one!- Thief!
What seekst you by your stealing?
What seekst you by your hearkening?
What seekst you by your torturing?
You torturer!
You- hangman-God!
Or shall I, as the mastiffs do,
Roll me before you?
And cringing, enraptured, frantical,
My tail friendly- waggle!
In vain!
Goad further!
Cruel goader!
No dog- your game just am I,
Cruel huntsman!
Your proudest of captives,
You robber 'hind the cloud-banks...
Speak finally!
You lightning-veiled one! you unknown one! Speak!
What will you, highway-ambusher, from- me?
What will you, unfamiliar- God?
What?
Ransom-gold?
How much of ransom-gold?
