MANFRED, A DRAMATIC POEM. << There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, << Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. >> DRAMATIS PERSONE. 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 But they avail not: I have done men good, 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 And earth's and ocean's caves familiar things— appear! (A pause.) They come not yet.-Now by the voice of him (A pause.) If it be so-Spirits of earth and air, |