Is it the same, or changed in thy sight?
AGAVE.
More shining than before, more heavenly bright!
CADMUS.
And that wild tremor, is it with thee still?
AGAVE (troubled).
I know not what thou sayest; but my will Clears, and some change cometh, I know not how.
CADMUS.
Canst hearken then, being changed, and answer, now?
AGAVE.
I have forgotten something; else I could.
CADMUS.
What husband led thee of old from mine abode?
AGAVE.
Echion, whom men named the Child of Earth.
CADMUS.
And what child in Echion's house had birth?
AGAVE.
Pentheus, of my love and his father's bred.
CADMUS.
Thou bearest in thine arms an head--what head?
AGAVE (beginning to tremble, and not looking at what she carries).
A lion's--so they all said in the chase.
CADMUS.
Turn to it now--'tis no long toil--and gaze.