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vv. 290–301

Our other clues are weak, old signs and far.

What sign? I needs must question all that are.

Some travellers slew him, the tale used to be.

The tale, yes: but the witness, where is he?

The man hath heard thy curses. If he knows

The taste of fear, he will not long stay close.

He fear my words, who never feared the deed?

Well, there is one shall find him.—See, they lead

Hither our Lord Tiresias, in whose mind

All truth is born, alone of human kind.

Enter ''led by a young disciple. He is an old blind man in a prophet’s robe, dark, unkempt and sinister in appearance''.

Tiresias, thou whose mind divineth well

All Truth, the spoken and the unspeakable,