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PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.
ACT IV.

Demogorgon.

Ye kings of suns and stars, Dæmons and Gods,

Ætherial Dominations, who possess
Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes
Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness:

A Voice from above.

Our great Republic hears, we are blest, and bless.


Demogorgon

Ye happy dead, whom beams of brightest verse

Are clouds to hide, not colours to pourtray,
Whether your nature is that universe
Which once ye saw and suffered—

A Voice from below.

Or as they

Whom we have left, we change and pass away.

Demogorgon

Ye elemental Genii, who have homes

From man's high mind even to the central stone
Of sullen lead; from Heaven's star-fretted domes
To the dull weed some sea-worm battens on: