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Rh But feeling that human weakness may conquer yet, he goes to wait at the altar, resolved to keep his promise of protection thoroughly.

In the next beautiful scene she shows that a few tears might overwhelm her in his absence. She raises her mother beyond weeping them, yet her soft purity she cannot impart.

This is truth incapable of an answer and Iphigenia attempts none.

She begins the hymn which is to sustain her,

After the sublime flow of lyric heroism, she suddenly sinks back into the tenderer feeling of her dreadful fate.

Freely; as the messenger afterwards recounts it.