My lord, behold these two states! Of all nations in the Archipelago, they alone are one in blood.

Dominora is the last and greatest Anak of Old Times; Vivenza, the foremost and goodliest stripling of the Present.

One is full of the past; the other brims with the future.

Ah! did this sire's old heart but beat to free thoughts, and back his bold son, all Mardi would go down before them.
And high Oro may have ordained for them a career, little divined by the mass.

Methinks, that as Vivenza will never cause old Bello to weep for his son; so, Vivenza will not, this many a long year, be called to weep over the grave of its sire.