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[, a Spanish Priest, enters. Gomez.Daughter, hail! I bring thee tidings.

Edith.Heaven will aid my soul Calmly to meet whate'er thy lips announce.

Gomez. Nay, lift a song of thanksgiving to Heaven, And bow thy knee down for deliverance won! Hast thou not pray'd for life? and wouldst thou not Once more be free?

Edith.Have I not pray'd for life? I, that am so belov'd! that love again With such a heart of tendrils? Heaven! thou know'st The gushings of my prayer! And would I not Once more be free? I, that have been a child Of breezy hills, a playmate of the fawn In ancient woodlands from mine infancy! A watcher of the clouds and of the stars, Beneath the adoring silence of the night; And a glad wanderer with the happy streams, Whose laughter fills the mountains! Oh! to hear Their blessed sounds again!