Chapter 15 IN THE TENT OF HOLOFERNES

Holofernes (alone with Judith).

Thou art the woman! Thou hast come to me!-

O not as I thought! not with senses blazing

Far into my deep soul abiding calm

Within their glory of knowledge, as the vast

Of night behind her outward sense of stars.

Now am I but the place thy beauty brightens,

And of myself I have no light of sense