Enter the SECOND and THIRD DESTINIES.

The Three.

Our hands contain the hearts of men,
Our footsteps are their graves;
We only give to take again

The spirits of our slaves!

FIRST DES. Welcome! Where's Nemesis?

SECOND DES.

At some great work;

But what I know not, for my hands were full. THIRD DES. Behold she cometh.

FIRST DES.

Enter NEMESIS.

Say, where hast thou been?

My sisters and thyself are slow to-night.

NEM. I was detain'd repairing shattered thrones, Marrying fools, restoring dynasties,

Avenging men upon their enemies,

And making them repent their own revenge;
Goading the wise to madness; from the dull
Shaping out oracles to rule the world
Afresh, for they were waxing out of date,
And mortals dared to ponder for themselves,
To weigh kings in the balance, and to speak

Of freedom, the forbidden fruit.

Away!

We have outstaid the hour-mount we our clouds!

[Exeunt.

SCENE IV.

The Hall of Arimanes Arimanes on his Throne, a Globe of Fire, surrounded by the Spirits.

Hymn of the SPIRITS.

Hail to our Master! Prince of Earth and Air!

Who walks the clouds and waters in his hand The sceptre of the elements, which tear

Themselves to chaos at his high command! He breatheth and a tempest shakes the sea; He speaketh and the clouds reply in thunder;

He gazeth

--

from his glance the sunbeams flee; He moveth-earthquakes rend the world asunder. Beneath his footsteps the volcanos rise; His shadow is the Pestilnece; his path The comets herald through the crackling skies; And planets turn to ashes at his wrath. To him War offers daily sacrifice;

To him Death pays his tribute; Life is his, With all its infinite of agonies

And his the spirit of whatever is!

Enter the DESTINIES and NEMESIS.

FIRST. DES. Glory to Arimanes! on the earth His power increaseth both my sisters did His bidding, nor did I neglect my duty!

SECOND DES. Glory to Arimanes! we who bow The necks of men, bow down before his throne! THIRD DES. Glory to Arimanes!

His nod!

we await

NEM. Sovereign of Sovereigns! we are thine, And all that liveth, more or less, is ours, And must things wholly so; still to increase Our power, increasing thine, demands our care,

A Magian of great power, and fearful skill!

THIRD SPIRIT. Bow down and worship, slave!-

What, know'st thou not

Thine and our Sovereign?

VOL. VI.

Tremble; and obey?
G

Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls: A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent From Chillon's snow-white battlement, Which round about the wave enthrall A double dungeon wall and wave

Have made and like a living grave.
Below the surface of the lake

The dark vault lies wherein we lay,
We heard it ripple night and day;
Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd;
And I have felt the winter's spray
Wash through the bars when winds were l
And wanton in the happy sky;

And then the very rock hath rock'd,
And I have felt it shake, unshock'd,

Because I could have smiled to see

The death that would have set me free.

VII.

I said my nearer brother pined,
I said his mighty heart declined,
He loath'd and put away his food;
It was not that was coarse and rude,