Chapter XC

He is indignant at the idea that if the dead came back to life again, they would not be welcome; and declares that whoever suggested this, could never have tasted the highest love.

Nevertheless, if the father did return to life, he would probably find his wife remarried, and his son unwilling to give up the estate. Even if matters were not so bad as this, still

"the yet-loved sire would make
Confusion worse than death, and shake
The pillars of domestic peace."[63]

Though all this may be true,

"I find not yet one lonely thought
That cries against my wish for thee."