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Whose human form, doth seal them unto suffering!
Father! I ask thine aid.

HERNANDEZ.

There is no aid

For thee or for thy children, but with Him
Whose presence is around us in the cloud,
As in the shining and the glorious light.

ELMINA.

There is no aid!—Art thou a man of God?

Art thou a man of sorrow—(for the world
Doth call thee such)—and hast thou not been taught
By God and sorrow—mighty as they are,
To own the claims of misery?

HERNANDEZ.

Is there power

With me to save thy sons?—Implore of Heaven!

ELMINA.

Doth not Heaven work its purposes by man?

I tell thee, thou canst save them!—Art thou not
Gonzalez' counsellor?—Unto him thy words
Are e'en as oracles——

HERNANDEZ.

And therefore?—Speak!

The noble daughter of Pelayo's line

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