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Thou didst not see it then?

Alack! alack! O would that I had seenO woe is me! Her pain—her agony was short to mine!

Is this an answer, chieftain, to the question Argyll hath plainly ask'd thee?—Wert thou present When Helen died? didst thou behold her death?

O yes; indeed I caught your meaning lamely; I meant—I thought—I know not certainly The very time and moment of her death, Although within my arms she breathed her last.

Now are we answered.