But who shall hymn the blindness of Manoah's son after Milton and Handel?
From a crowd of captive Hebrews outside the prison walls come taunting accusations, mingled with supplications to God.

We recognize again the national mood of the psalmody of the first act.

The entire scene is finely conceived.

It is dramatic in a lofty sense, for its action plays on the stage of the heart.

Samson, contrite, humble, broken in spirit, with a prayer for his people's deliverance, is led away to be made sport of in the temple of Dagon.