DRAMATIS PERSONE. MANFRED. CHAMOIS HUNTER. ABBOT OF ST. MAURICE. MANUEL. HERMAN. WITCH OF THE ALPS. ARIMANES. NEMESIS. The DESTINIES. SPIRITS, &c. The Scene of the Drama is amongst the Higher Alps-partly in the Castle of Manfred, and partly in the Mountains. MANFRED. ACT I. SCENE I. MANFRED alone-Scene, a Gothic gallery-Time, Midnight. MAN. THE lamp must be replenish'd, but even then It will not burn so long as I must watch: Which then I can resist not: in my heart And none have baffled, many fallen before me- Have been to me as rain unto the sands, Since that all-nameless hour. I have no dread, Nor fluttering throb, that beats with hopes or wishes, Now to my task. Mysterious Agency! Ye spirits of the unbounded Universe! Whom I have sought in darkness and in light Ye, who do compass earth about, and dwell In subtler essence-ye, to whom the tops Of mountains inaccessible are haunts, And earth's and ocean's caves familiar things— Which gives me power upon you -Rise! appear! [A pause. They come not yet.-Now by the voice of him |