The soldiers, who beheld him drop his point,

Stopped as if once more willing to concede

Quarter, in case he bade them not "aroynt!"

As he before had done. He did not heed

Their pause nor signs: his heart was out of joint,

And shook (till now unshaken) like a reed,

As he looked down upon his children gone,

And felt—though done with life—he was alone.[470]