_Chor._ From what source hast thou these dread agonies
Sent on thee by thy God,
Yet vague and little meaning; and thy cries 1120
Dire with ill-omened shrieks
Dost utter as a chant,
And blendest with them strains of shrillest grief?
Whence treadest thou this track
Of evil-boding path of prophecy?