MANFRED. A DRAMATIC POEM. " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." VOL. IV. 1 DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. MANFRED. CHAMOIS HUNTER. ABBOT OF ST MAURICE. MANUEL. HERMAN. WITCH OF THE ALPS. ARIMANES. NEMESIS. THE DESTINIES. SPIRITS, etc. 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. MANFRED. THE lamp must be replenish'd, but even then But they avail not: I have done men good, And none have baffled, many fallen before me- Nor fluttering throb, that beats with hopes or wishes, 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 I call upon ye by the written charm Which gives me power upon you-Rise! appear!— They come not yet.-Now by the voice of him If it be so. Spirits of earth and air, Ye shall not thus elude me : by a power, (A pause. (A pause. |