Atto

 1 1|  thee with a love will never die,~ ~Then, if he leave thee,
 2 1| wills our law that they must die:~ ~Their joy—endurance;
 3 2|     more that voice before I die!~ ~My latest breath would
 4 2|  cureless wound from which I die.~ ~Sure, reason finds that
 5 2|      dream with superstition die,~ ~The dream is past, for
 6 2|   300~ POLY.For Him I love I die!~ ~He died for me! So death
 7 2|    The Christ once feared to die!~ 335~ POLY. Yet drained
 8 2|      died for me, for Thee I die!~ ~Yes, I will go! With
 9 2|    lived to doubt His word—I die to His Will!~ ~
10 3|     hope’s flame leaps up to die!~ ~Or—if new-born—dies ere
11 3|    how to yield—but they can die!~ ~ FELIX. As bird in hand,
12 3|      so, for the cross, they die.~ ~We see two stakes of
13 3|    our gain their loss,~ ~To die for Christ they count the
14 3|     have noble thoughts that die still-born,~ 305~And I have
15 4|     to the Lord!~ ~Oh, if to die for fatherland be sweet,~ ~
16 4|    fatherland be sweet,~ ~To die for Him—my God—what word
17 4|   fight like lions, but they die like sheep.~ ~They serve
18 5|      for thou, at last, must die!~ ~ POLY. Incense might
19 5|   Severus, or—with Polyeucte die!’~ ~Thy tears are mine,
20 5|     know that I am doomed to die!~ ~But even if justly done
21 5|      thee my daughter cannot die—say, must she die with thee?~ ~
22 5|     cannot die—say, must she die with thee?~ ~A victim to
23 5|     most stern, most just.~ ~Die! or the gods adore!~ 245~
24 5|    the gods I say! Adore, or die!~ ~ POLY. I am a Christian.~ ~
25 5| gives life by which alike we die!~ ~(To SEVERUS.) Then slay