Scenes From The Magico Prodigioso. From The Spanish Of Calderon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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SCENE	A
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ENTER CYPRIAN DRESSED AS A STUDENT	B
CLARIN AND MOSCON AS POOR SCHOLARS WITH BOOKS	C
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CYPRIAN	D
In the sweet solitude of this calm place	E
This intricate wild wilderness of trees	F
And flowers and undergrowth of odorous plants	G
Leave me the books you brought out of the house	H
To me are ever best society	I
And while with glorious festival and song	J
Antioch now celebrates the consecration	D
Of a proud temple to great Jupiter	K
And bears his image in loud jubilee	I
To its new shrine I would consume what still	L
Lives of the dying day in studious thought	M
Far from the throng and turmoil You my friends	N
Go and enjoy the festival it will	L
Be worth your pains You may return for me	I
When the sun seeks its grave among the billows	O
Which among dim gray clouds on the horizon	D
Dance like white plumes upon a hearse and here	P
I shall expect you	Q
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NOTES	R
So transcr Be worth the labour and return for me	I
So	S
Hid among dim gray clouds on the horizon	D
Which dance like plumes transcr Forman	T
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MOSCON	T
I cannot bring my mind	U
Great as my haste to see the festival	V
Certainly is to leave you Sir without	W
Just saying some three or four thousand words	X
How is it possible that on a day	Y
Of such festivity you can be content	Z
To come forth to a solitary country	I
With three or four old books and turn your back	A2
On all this mirth	B2
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NOTES	R
thousand transcr hundred	C2
be content transcr bring your mind	U
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CLARIN	T
My master's in the right	D2
There is not anything more tiresome	E2
Than a procession day with troops and priests	F2
And dances and all that	G2
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NOTE	H2
and priests transcr of men	T
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MOSCON	T
From first to last	I2
Clarin you are a temporizing flatterer	I
You praise not what you feel but what he does	J2
Toadeater	I
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CLARIN	T
You lie under a mistake	K2
For this is the most civil sort of lie	L2
That can be given to a man's face I now	T
Say what I think	M2
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CYPRIAN	T
Enough you foolish fellows	O
Puffed up with your own doting ignorance	N2
You always take the two sides of one question	T
Now go and as I said return for me	I
When night falls veiling in its shadows wide	O2
This glorious fabric of the universe	P2
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NOTE	H2
doting ignorance transcr ignorance and pride	O2
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MOSCON	T
How happens it although you can maintain	T
The folly of enjoying festivals	Q2
That yet you go there	I
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CLARIN	T
Nay the consequence	N2
Is clear who ever did what he advises	R2
Others to do	Q
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MOSCON	T
Would that my feet were wings	S2
So would I fly to Livia	T2
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EXIT	U2
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CLARIN	T
To speak truth	V2
Livia is she who has surprised my heart	W2
But he is more than half way there Soho	S
Livia I come good sport Livia soho	S
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EXIT	U2
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CYPRIAN	T
Now since I am alone let me examine	T
The question which has long disturbed my mind	U
With doubt since first I read in Plinius	X2
The words of mystic import and deep sense	Y2
In which he defines God My intellect	Z2
Can find no God with whom these marks and signs	A3
Fitly agree It is a hidden truth	V2
Which I must fathom	E2
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CYPRIAN READS	B3
THE DAEMON DRESSED IN A COURT DRESS ENTERS	C3
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NOTE	H2
Stage Direction So transcr Reads Enter the Devil as a fine	T
gentleman	T
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DAEMON	T
Search even as thou wilt	D3
But thou shalt never find what I can hide	O2
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CYPRIAN	T
What noise is that among the boughs Who moves	E3
What art thou	T
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DAEMON	T
'Tis a foreign gentleman	T
Even from this morning I have lost my way	Y
In this wild place and my poor horse at last	I2
Quite overcome has stretched himself upon	T
The enamelled tapestry of this mossy mountain	T
And feeds and rests at the same time I was	F3
Upon my way to Antioch upon business	X2
Of some importance but wrapped up in cares	G3
Who is exempt from this inheritance	N2
I parted from my company and lost	H3
My way and lost my servants and my comrades	I3
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CYPRIAN	T
'Tis singular that even within the sight	D2
Of the high towers of Antioch you could lose	J3
Your way Of all the avenues and green paths	K3
Of this wild wood there is not one but leads	B3
As to its centre to the walls of Antioch	L3
Take which you will you cannot miss your road	M3
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DAEMON	T
And such is ignorance Even in the sight	D2
Of knowledge it can draw no profit from it	U2
But as it still is early and as I	L2
Have no acquaintances in Antioch	L3
Being a stranger there I will even wait	N3
The few surviving hours of the day	Y
Until the night shall conquer it I see	I
Both by your dress and by the books in which	O3
You find delight and company that you	Q
Are a great student for my part I feel	P3
Much sympathy in such pursuits	Q3
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NOTE	H2
in transcr with	R3
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CYPRIAN	T
Have you	Q
Studied much	S3
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DAEMON	T
No and yet I know enough	T3
Not to be wholly ignorant	B
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CYPRIAN	T
Pray Sir	I
What science may you know	S
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DAEMON	T
Many	I
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CYPRIAN	T
Alas	U3
Much pains must we expend on one alone	T
And even then attain it not but you	Q
Have the presumption to assert that you	Q
Know many without study	I
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DAEMON	T
And with truth	V2
For in the country whence I come the sciences	J2
Require no learning they are known	T
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NOTE	H2
come the sciences come sciences	J2
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CYPRIAN	T
Oh would	V3
I were of that bright country for in this	W3
The more we study we the more discover	I
Our ignorance	N2
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DAEMON	T
It is so true that I	L2
Had so much arrogance as to oppose	O
The chair of the most high Professorship	X3
And obtained many votes and though I lost	H3
The attempt was still more glorious than the failure	I
Could be dishonourable If you believe not	Y3
Let us refer it to dispute respecting	Z3
That which you know the best and although I	L2
Know not the opinion you maintain and though	S
It be the true one I will take the contrary	I
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NOTE	H2
the transcr wanting	Z3
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CYPRIAN	T
The offer gives me pleasure I am now	T
Debating with myself upon a passage	A4
Of Plinius and my mind is racked with doubt	W
To understand and know who is the God	B4
Of whom he speaks	C4
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DAEMON	T
It is a passage if	D4
I recollect it right couched in these words	X
'God is one supreme goodness one pure essence	N2
One substance and one sense all sight all hands '	-
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CYPRIAN	T
'Tis true	Q
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DAEMON	T
What difficulty find you here	I
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CYPRIAN	T
I do not recognize among the Gods	E4
The God defined by Plinius if he must	F4
Be supreme goodness even Jupiter	I
Is not supremely good because we see	I
His deeds are evil and his attributes	Q3
Tainted with mortal weakness in what manner	I
Can supreme goodness be consistent with	R3
The passions of humanity	I
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DAEMON	T
The wisdom	E2
Of the old world masked with the names of Gods	E4
The attributes of Nature and of Man	T
A sort of popular philosophy	I
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CYPRIAN	T
This reply will not satisfy me for	I
Such awe is due to the high name of God	B4
That ill should never be imputed Then	T
Examining the question with more care	I
It follows that the Gods would always will	L
That which is best were they supremely good	V3
How then does one will one thing one another	I
And that you may not say that I allege	G4
Poetical or philosophic learning	Z3
Consider the ambiguous responses	R2
Of their oracular statues from two shrines	A3
Two armies shall obtain the assurance of	H4
One victory Is it not indisputable	V
That two contending wills can never lead	I4
To the same end And being opposite	J4
If one be good is not the other evil	V
Evil in God is inconceivable	V
But supreme goodness fails among the Gods	E4
Without their union	T
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NOTE	H2
would transcr should	V3
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DAEMON	T
I deny your major	I
These responses are means towards some end	K4
Unfathomed by our intellectual beam	L4
They are the work of Providence and more	I
The battle's loss may profit those who lose	J3
Than victory advantage those who win	T
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CYPRIAN	T
That I admit and yet that God should not	Y3
Falsehood is incompatible with deity	I
Assure the victory it would be enough	T3
To have permitted the defeat If God	B4
Be all sight God who had beheld the truth	V2
Would not have given assurance of an end	K4
Never to be accomplished thus although	S
The Deity may according to his attributes	Q3
Be well distinguished into persons yet	M4
Even in the minutest circumstance	N4
His essence must be one	T
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NOTE	H2
had transcr wanting	Z3
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DAEMON	T
To attain the end	K4
The affections of the actors in the scene	T
Must have been thus influenced by his voice	O4
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CYPRIAN	T
But for a purpose thus subordinate	N3
He might have employed Genii good or evil	V
A sort of spirits called so by the learned	P4
Who roam about inspiring good or evil	V
And from whose influence and existence we	I
May well infer our immortality	I
Thus God might easily without descent	Z
To a gross falsehood in his proper person	T
Have moved the affections by this mediation	T
To the just point	Q4
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NOTE	H2
descent transcr descending	Z3
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DAEMON	T
These trifling contradictions	R4
Do not suffice to impugn the unity	I
Of the high Gods in things of great importance	N2
They still appear unanimous consider	I
That glorious fabric man his workmanship	X3
Is stamped with one conception	T
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CYPRIAN	T
Who made man	T
Must have methinks the advantage of the others	C3
If they are equal might they not have risen	T
In opposition to the work and being	Z3
All hands according to our author here	I
Have still destroyed even as the other made	S4
If equal in their power unequal only	I
In opportunity which of the two	Q
Will remain conqueror	I
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NOTE	H2
unequal only transcr and only unequal	V
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DAEMON	T
On impossible	V
And false hypothesis there can be built	D3
No argument Say what do you infer	I
From this	W3
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CYPRIAN	T
That there must be a mighty God	B4
Of supreme goodness and of highest grace	E
All sight all hands all truth infallible	V
Without an equal and without a rival	V
The cause of all things and the effect of nothing	Z3
One power one will one substance and one essence	N2
And in whatever persons one or two	Q
His attributes may be distinguished one	T
Sovereign power one solitary essence	N2
One cause of all cause	F3
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NOTE	H2
And query Ay	Y
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THEY RISE	T4
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DAEMON	T
How can I impugn	T
So clear a consequence	N2
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NOTE	H2
all cause all things transcr	I
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CYPRIAN	T
Do you regret	M4
My victory	I
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DAEMON	T
Who but regrets a check	U4
In rivalry of wit I could reply	L2
And urge new difficulties but will now	T
Depart for I hear steps of men approaching	Z3
And it is time that I should now pursue	Q
My journey to the city	I
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CYPRIAN	T
Go in peace	V4
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DAEMON	T
Remain in peace Since thus it profits him	W4
To study I will wrap his senses up	X4
In sweet oblivion of all thought but of	H4
A piece of excellent beauty and as I	L2
Have power given me to wage enmity	I
Against Justina's soul I will extract	Y4
From one effect two vengeances	V4
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ASIDE AND EXIT	U2
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NOTE	H2
Stage direction So transcr Exit	U2
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CYPRIAN	T
I never	I
Met a more learned person Let me now	T
Revolve this doubt again with careful mind	U
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HE READS	V4
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FLORO AND LELIO ENTER	I
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LELIO	L2
Here stop These toppling rocks and tangled boughs	V4
Impenetrable by the noonday beam	L4
Shall be sole witnesses of what we	I
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FLORO	I
Draw	I
If there were words here is the place for deeds	V4
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LELIO	L2
Thou needest not instruct me well I know	I
That in the field the silent tongue of steel	L2
Speaks thus	V4
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THEY FIGHT	D2
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CYPRIAN	T
Ha what is this Lelio Floro	I
Be it enough that Cyprian stands between you	Q
Although unarmed	Z4
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LELIO	L2
Whence comest thou to stand
Between me and my vengeance	V4
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FLORO	I
From what rocks	V4
And desert cells	V4
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ENTER MOSCON AND CLARIN	T
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MOSCON	T
Run run for where we left
My master I now hear the clash of swords	V4
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NOTES	V4
I now hear transcr we hear	I
lines of otherwise arranged
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CLARIN	T
I never run to approach things of this sort
But only to avoid them Sir Cyprian sir	I
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CYPRIAN	T
Be silent fellows What two friends who are	I
In blood and fame the eyes and hope of Antioch	L3
One of the noble race of the Colalti
The other son o' the Governor adventure	I
And cast away on some slight cause no doubt
Two lives the honour of their country	I
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NOTE
race transcr men Colalti Colatti
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LELIO	L2
Cyprian	T
Although my high respect towards your person	T
Holds now my sword suspended thou canst not
Restore it to the slumber of the scabbard
Thou knowest more of science than the duel	L2
For when two men of honour take the field
No counsel nor respect can make them friends	V4
But one must die in the dispute
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NOTE
of the transcr of its	V4
No counsel nor st edition	T
No or No reasoning or transcr	I
dispute transcr pursuit
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FLORO	I
I pray	I
That you depart hence with your people and
Leave us to finish what we have begun	T
Without advantage
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CYPRIAN	T
Though you may imagine	T
That I know little of the laws of duel	L2
Which vanity and valour instituted
You are in error By my birth I am
Held no less than yourselves to know the limits	V4
Of honour and of infamy nor has study
Quenched the free spirit which first ordered them
And thus to me as one well experienced
In the false quicksands of the sea of honour	I
You may refer the merits of the case	V4
And if I should perceive in your relation	T
That either has the right to satisfaction	T
From the other I give you my word of honour	I
To leave you	Q
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NOTE
well omit cj Forman	T
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LELIO	L2
Under this condition then	T
I will relate the cause and you will cede
And must confess the impossibility
Of compromise for the same lady is	V4
Beloved by Floro and myself
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FLORO	I
It seems	V4
Much to me that the light of day should look
Upon that idol of my heart but he
Leave us to fight according to thy word
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CYPRIAN	T
Permit one question further is the lady
Impossible to hope or not
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LELIO	L2
She is	V4
So excellent that if the light of day	I
Should excite Floro's jealousy it were	I
Without just cause for even the light of day	I
Trembles to gaze on her	I
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CYPRIAN	T
Would you for your	I
Part marry her	I
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FLORO	I
Such is my confidence	V4
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CYPRIAN	T
And you	Q
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LELIO	L2
Oh would that I could lift my hope
So high for though she is extremely poor	I
Her virtue is her dowry
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CYPRIAN	T
And if you both
Would marry her is it not weak and vain	T
Culpable and unworthy thus beforehand
To slur her honour What would the world say	I
If one should slay the other and if she
Should afterwards espouse the murderer	I
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THE RIVALS AGREE TO REFER THEIR QUARREL TO CYPRIAN WHO IN CONSEQUENCE	V4
VISITS JUSTINA AND BECOMES ENAMOURED OF HER SHE DISDAINS HIM AND HE
RETIRES TO A SOLITARY SEA SHORE	I
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SCENE	T
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CYPRIAN	T
O memory permit it not
That the tyrant of my thought
Be another soul that still	L2
Holds dominion o'er the will	L2
That would refuse but can no more	I
To bend to tremble and adore	I
Vain idolatry I saw	I
And gazing became blind with error	I
Weak ambition which the awe
Of her presence bound to terror	I
So beautiful she was and I	L2
Between my love and jealousy
Am so convulsed with hope and fear	I
Unworthy as it may appear	I
So bitter is the life I live
That hear me Hell I now would give
To thy most detested spirit
My soul for ever to inherit
To suffer punishment and pine	T
So this woman may be mine	T
Hear'st thou Hell dost thou reject it
My soul is offered
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DAEMON UNSEEN	T
I accept it
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TEMPEST WITH THUNDER AND LIGHTNING	Z3
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CYPRIAN	T
What is this ye heavens for ever pure	I
At once intensely radiant and obscure	I
Athwart the aethereal halls	V4
The lightning's arrow and the thunder balls	V4
The day affright
As from the horizon round
Burst with earthquake sound
In mighty torrents the electric fountains	V4
Clouds quench the sun and thunder smoke
Strangles the air and fire eclipses Heaven	T
Philosophy thou canst not even	T
Compel their causes underneath thy yoke
From yonder clouds even to the waves below	L2
The fragments of a single ruin choke
Imagination's flight
For on flakes of surge like feathers light
The ashes of the desolation cast
Upon the gloomy blast
Tell of the footsteps of the storm
And nearer see the melancholy form
Of a great ship the outcast of the sea
Drives miserably
And it must fly the pity of the port
Or perish and its last and sole resort
Is its own raging enemy
The terror of the thrilling cry	L2
Was a fatal prophecy
Of coming death who hovers now	T
Upon that shattered prow	T
That they who die not may be dying still	L2
And not alone the insane elements	V4
Are populous with wild portents	V4
But that sad ship is as a miracle	L2
Of sudden ruin for it drives so fast
It seems as if it had arrayed its form
With the headlong storm
It strikes I almost feel the shock	L3
It stumbles on a jagged rock	L3
Sparkles of blood on the white foam are cast
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A TEMPEST
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ALL EXCLAIM WITHIN	T
We are all lost
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DAEMON WITHIN	T
Now from this plank will I	L2
Pass to the land and thus fulfil my scheme	L4
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CYPRIAN	T
As in contempt of the elemental rage
A man comes forth in safety while the ship's	V4
Great form is in a watery eclipse	V4
Obliterated from the Oceans page
And round its wreck the huge sea monsters sit
A horrid conclave and the whistling wave
Is heaped over its carcase like a grave
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THE DAEMON ENTERS AS ESCAPED FROM THE SEA
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DAEMON ASIDE
It was essential to my purposes	V4
To wake a tumult on the sapphire ocean	T
That in this unknown form I might at length
Wipe out the blot of the discomfiture	T
Sustained upon the mountain and assail	L2
With a new war the soul of Cyprian	T
Forging the instruments of his destruction	T
Even from his love and from his wisdom O	L2
Beloved earth dear mother in thy bosom	E2
I seek a refuge from the monster who	Q
Precipitates itself upon me
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CYPRIAN	T
Friend
Collect thyself and be the memory
Of thy late suffering and thy greatest sorrow	L2
But as a shadow of the past for nothing	Z3
Beneath the circle of the moon but flows	V4
And changes and can never know repose	V4
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DAEMON	T
And who art thou before whose feet my fate
Has prostrated me
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CYPRIAN	T
One who moved with pity
Would soothe its stings	V4
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DAEMON	T
Oh that can never be
No solace can my lasting sorrows find
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CYPRIAN	T
Wherefore	L2
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DAEMON	T
Because my happiness is lost
Yet I lament what has long ceased to be
The object of desire or memory
And my life is not life
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CYPRIAN	T
Now since the fury
Of this earthquaking hurricane is still	L2
And the crystalline Heaven has reassumed
Its windless calm so quickly that it seems	V4
As if its heavy wrath had been awakened
Only to overwhelm that vessel speak
Who art thou and whence comest thou	T
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DAEMON	T
Far more	L2
My coming hither cost than thou hast seen	T
Or I can tell Among my misadventures	V4
This shipwreck is the least Wilt thou hear	L2
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CYPRIAN	T
Speak
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DAEMON	T
Since thou desirest I will then unveil	L2
Myself to thee for in myself I am
A world of happiness and misery
This I have lost and that I must lament
Forever In my attributes I stood
So high and so heroically great
In lineage so supreme and with a genius	V4
Which penetrated with a glance the world
Beneath my feet that won by my high merit
A king whom I may call the King of kings	V4
Because all others tremble in their pride
Before the terrors of His countenance	V4
In His high palace roofed with brightest gems	V4
Of living light call them the stars of Heaven	T
Named me His counsellor But the high praise	V4
Stung me with pride and envy and I rose	V4
In mighty competition to ascend
His seat and place my foot triumphantly
Upon His subject thrones Chastised I know	L2
The depth to which ambition falls too mad
Was the attempt and yet more mad were now	T
Repentance of the irrevocable deed
Therefore I chose this ruin with the glory
Of not to be subdued before the shame
Of reconciling me with Him who reigns	V4
By coward cession Nor was I alone	T
Nor am I now nor shall I be alone	T
And there was hope and there may still be hope
For many suffrages among His vassals	V4
Hailed me their lord and king and many still	L2
Are mine and many more perchance shall be
Thus vanquished though in fact victorious	V4
I left His seat of empire from mine eye	L2
Shooting forth poisonous lightning while my words	V4
With inauspicious thunderings shook Heaven	T
Proclaiming vengeance public as my wrong	J
And imprecating on His prostrate slaves	V4
Rapine and death and outrage Then I sailed
Over the mighty fabric of the world
A pirate ambushed in its pathless sands	V4
A lynx crouched watchfully among its caves	V4
And craggy shores and I have wandered over	L2
The expanse of these wide wildernesses	V4
In this great ship whose bulk is now dissolved
In the light breathings of the invisible wind
And which the sea has made a dustless ruin	T
Seeking ever a mountain through whose forests	V4
I seek a man whom I must now compel	L2
To keep his word with me I came arrayed
In tempest and although my power could well	L2
Bridle the forest winds in their career	L2
For other causes I forbore to soothe
Their fury to Favonian gentleness	V4
I could and would not
ASIDE
thus I wake in him	W4
A love of magic art Let not this tempest
Nor the succeeding calm excite thy wonder	L2
For by my art the sun would turn as pale	L2
As his weak sister with unwonted fear	L2
And in my wisdom are the orbs of Heaven	T
Written as in a record I have pierced
The flaming circles of their wondrous spheres	V4
And know them as thou knowest every corner	L2
Of this dim spot Let it not seem to thee
That I boast vainly wouldst thou that I work
A charm over this waste and savage wood
This Babylon of crags and aged trees	V4
Filling its leafy coverts with a horror	L2
Thrilling and strange I am the friendless guest
Of these wild oaks and pines and as from thee
I have received the hospitality
Of this rude place I offer thee the fruit
Of years of toil in recompense whate'er	L2
Thy wildest dream presented to thy thought
As object of desire that shall be thine	T
	-
	-
	-
And thenceforth shall so firm an amity
'Twixt thee and me be that neither Fortune	T
The monstrous phantom which pursues success	V4
That careful miser that free prodigal	L2
Who ever alternates with changeful hand
Evil and good reproach and fame nor Time
That lodestar of the ages to whose beam	L4
The winged years speed o'er the intervals	V4
Of their unequal revolutions nor	L2
Heaven itself whose beautiful bright stars	V4
Rule and adorn the world can ever make	K2
The least division between thee and me
Since now I find a refuge in thy favour	L2
	-
NOTES	V4
wide glassy wildernesses Rossetti
Seeking forever cj Forman	T
forest fiercest cj Rossetti
	-
	-
SCENE	T
	-
THE DAEMON TEMPTS JUSTINA WHO IS A CHRISTIAN	T
	-
DAEMON	T
Abyss of Hell I call on thee
Thou wild misrule of thine own anarchy
From thy prison house set free
The spirits of voluptuous death
That with their mighty breath
They may destroy a world of virgin thoughts	V4
Let her chaste mind with fancies thick as motes	V4
Be peopled from thy shadowy deep
Till her guiltless fantasy
Full to overflowing be
And with sweetest harmony
Let birds and flowers and leaves and all things move
To love only to love	H4
Let nothing meet her eyes	V4
But signs of Love's soft victories	V4
Let nothing meet her ear	L2
But sounds of Love's sweet sorrow	L2
So that from faith no succour she may borrow	L2
But guided by my spirit blind
And in a magic snare entwined
She may now seek Cyprian	T
Begin while I in silence bind
My voice when thy sweet song thou hast began	T
	-
NOTE
she may may she
	-
A VOICE WITHIN	T
What is the glory far above	H4
All else in human life
	-
ALL	L2
Love love	H4
	-
WHILE THESE WORDS ARE SUNG
THE DAEMON GOES OUT AT ONE DOOR	L2
AND JUSTINA ENTERS AT ANOTHER	L2
	-
THE FIRST VOICE	V4
There is no form in which the fire	L2
Of love its traces has impressed not
Man lives far more in love's desire	L2
Than by life's breath soon possessed not
If all that lives must love or die	L2
All shapes on earth or sea or sky	L2
With one consent to Heaven cry	L2
That the glory far above	H4
All else in life is	V4
	-
ALL	L2
Love oh Love	H4
	-
JUSTINA	T
Thou melancholy Thought which art
So flattering and so sweet to thee
When did I give the liberty
Thus to afflict my heart
What is the cause of this new Power	L2
Which doth my fevered being move
Momently raging more and more	L2
What subtle Pain is kindled now	T
Which from my heart doth overflow	L2
Into my senses	V4
	-
NOTE
flattering Boscombe manuscript fluttering	Z3
	-
ALL	L2
Love oh Love	H4
	-
JUSTINA	T
'Tis that enamoured Nightingale	L2
Who gives me the reply	L2
He ever tells the same soft tale	L2
Of passion and of constancy
To his mate who rapt and fond
Listening sits a bough beyond
	-
Be silent Nightingale no more	L2
Make me think in hearing thee
Thus tenderly thy love deplore	L2
If a bird can feel his so	L2
What a man would feel for me
And voluptuous Vine O thou	T
Who seekest most when least pursuing	Z3
To the trunk thou interlacest
Art the verdure which embracest
And the weight which is its ruin	T
No more with green embraces Vine	T
Make me think on what thou lovest
For whilst thus thy boughs entwine	T
I fear lest thou shouldst teach me sophist
How arms might be entangled too
	-
Light enchanted Sunflower thou	T
Who gazest ever true and tender	L2
On the sun's revolving splendour	L2
Follow not his faithless glance	V4
With thy faded countenance	V4
Nor teach my beating heart to fear	L2
If leaves can mourn without a tear	L2
How eyes must weep O Nightingale	L2
Cease from thy enamoured tale	L2
Leafy Vine unwreathe thy bower	L2
Restless Sunflower cease to move
Or tell me all what poisonous Power	L2
Ye use against me
	-
NOTES	V4
To Who to cj Rossetti
whilst thus Rossetti Forman Dowden whilst thou thus	V4
	-
ALL	L2
Love Love Love	H4
	-
JUSTINA	T
It cannot be Whom have I ever loved
Trophies of my oblivion and disdain	T
Floro and Lelio did I not reject
And Cyprian	T
SHE BECOMES TROUBLED AT THE NAME OF CYPRIAN	T
Did I not requite him	W4
With such severity that he has fled
Where none has ever heard of him again	T
Alas I now begin to fear that this	V4
May be the occasion whence desire grows bold
As if there were no danger From the moment
That I pronounced to my own listening heart
'Cyprian is absent ' O me miserable	L2
I know not what I feel	L2
MORE CALMLY
It must be pity
To think that such a man whom all the world
Admired should be forgot by all the world
And I the cause	V4
SHE AGAIN BECOMES TROUBLED
And yet if it were pity
Floro and Lelio might have equal share	L2
For they are both imprisoned for my sake	K2
CALMLY
Alas what reasonings are these it is	V4
Enough I pity him and that in vain	T
Without this ceremonious subtlety
And woe is me I know not where to find him now	T
Even should I seek him through this wide world
	-
NOTE
me miserable miserable me editions	V4
	-
ENTER DAEMON	T
	-
DAEMON	T
Follow and I will lead thee where he is	V4
	-
JUSTINA	T
And who art thou who hast found entrance hither	L2
Into my chamber through the doors and locks	V4
Art thou a monstrous shadow which my madness	V4
Has formed in the idle air	L2
	-
DAEMON	T
No I am one	T
Called by the Thought which tyrannizes thee
From his eternal dwelling who this day
Is pledged to bear thee unto Cyprian	T
	-
JUSTINA	T
So shall thy promise fail This agony
Of passion which afflicts my heart and soul	L2
May sweep imagination in its storm
The will is firm
	-
DAEMON	T
Already half is done	T
In the imagination of an act
The sin incurred the pleasure then remains	V4
Let not the will stop half way on the road
	-
JUSTINA	T
I will not be discouraged nor despair	L2
Although I thought it and although 'tis true	L2
That thought is but a prelude to the deed
Thought is not in my power but action is	V4
I will not move my foot to follow thee
	-
DAEMON	T
But a far mightier wisdom than thine own	T
Exerts itself within thee with such power	L2
Compelling thee to that which it inclines	V4
That it shall force thy step how wilt thou then	T
Resist Justina	T
	-
NOTE
inclines inclines to cj Rossetti
	-
JUSTINA	T
By my free will	L2
	-
DAEMON	T
I	L2
Must force thy will	L2
	-
JUSTINA	T
It is invincible	L2
It were not free if thou hadst power upon it
	-
HE DRAWS BUT CANNOT MOVE HER	L2
	-
DAEMON	T
Come where a pleasure waits thee
	-
JUSTINA	T
It were bought
Too dear	L2
	-
DAEMON	T
'Twill soothe thy heart to softest peace	V4
	-
JUSTINA	T
'Tis dread captivity
	-
DAEMON	T
'Tis joy 'tis glory
	-
JUSTINA	T
'Tis shame 'tis torment 'tis despair	L2
	-
DAEMON	T
But how	T
Canst thou defend thyself from that or me
If my power drags thee onward
	-
JUSTINA	T
My defence	V4
Consists in God
	-
HE VAINLY ENDEAVOURS TO FORCE HER AND AT LAST RELEASES HER	L2
	-
DAEMON	T
Woman thou hast subdued me
Only by not owning thyself subdued
But since thou thus findest defence in God
I will assume a feigned form and thus	V4
Make thee a victim of my baffled rage
For I will mask a spirit in thy form
Who will betray thy name to infamy
And doubly shall I triumph in thy loss	V4
First by dishonouring thee and then by turning	Z3
False pleasure to true ignominy
	-
EXIT
	-
JUSTINA I	L2
Appeal to Heaven against thee so that Heaven	T
May scatter thy delusions and the blot
Upon my fame vanish in idle thought
Even as flame dies in the envious air	L2
And as the floweret wanes at morning frost
And thou shouldst never But alas to whom
Do I still speak Did not a man but now	T
Stand here before me No I am alone	T
And yet I saw him Is he gone so quickly
Or can the heated mind engender shapes	V4
From its own fear Some terrible and strange
Peril is near Lisander father lord
Livia	T
	-
ENTER LISANDER AND LIVIA	T
	-
LISANDER	L2
Oh my daughter What
	-
LIVIA	T
What
	-
JUSTINA	T
Saw you	L2
A man go forth from my apartment now	T
I scarce contain myself
	-
LISANDER	L2
A man here	L2
	-
JUSTINA	T
Have you not seen him	W4
	-
LIVIA	T
No Lady
	-
JUSTINA I saw him	W4
	-
LISANDER 'Tis impossible the doors	V4
Which led to this apartment were all locked
	-
LIVIA ASIDE
I daresay it was Moscon whom she saw	V4
For he was locked up in my room
	-
LISANDER	L2
It must
Have been some image of thy fantasy
Such melancholy as thou feedest is	V4
Skilful in forming such in the vain air	L2
Out of the motes and atoms of the day
	-
LIVIA	T
My master's in the right
	-
JUSTINA	T
Oh would it were	L2
Delusion but I fear some greater ill	L2
I feel as if out of my bleeding bosom	E2
My heart was torn in fragments ay
Some mortal spell is wrought against my frame
So potent was the charm that had not God
Shielded my humble innocence from wrong	J
I should have sought my sorrow and my shame
With willing steps Livia quick bring my cloak
For I must seek refuge from these extremes	V4
Even in the temple of the highest God
Where secretly the faithful worship	X4
	-
LIVIA	T
Here	L2
	-
NOTE
Where Rossetti Which	O3
	-
JUSTINA PUTTING ON HER CLOAK
In this as in a shroud of snow may I	L2
Quench the consuming fire in which I burn	T
Wasting away
	-
LISANDER	L2
And I will go with thee
	-
LIVIA	T
When I once see them safe out of the house	V4
I shall breathe freely
	-
JUSTINA	T
So do I confide
In thy just favour Heaven	T
	-
LISANDER	L2
Let us go	L2
	-
JUSTINA	T
Thine is the cause great God turn for my sake	K2
And for Thine own mercifully to me

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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