‘If all my prayers were answered,’ I said to him, ‘You would not yet 81 be banished from mankind. ‘For I remember well and now lament the cherished, kind, paternal image of You → 84 when, there in the world, from time to time, ‘You taught me how man makes himself immortal. And how much gratitude I owe for that 87 my tongue, while I still live, must give report.
