"Can this be Death? then what is Life or Death?

Speak!" but he spoke not: "wake!" but still he slept:—

"But yesterday and who had mightier breath?

A thousand warriors by his word were kept

In awe: he said, as the Centurion saith,

'Go,' and he goeth; 'come,' and forth he stepped.

The trump and bugle till he spake were dumb—

And now nought left him but the muffled drum."[EY]