All this is well; his will pass away, and be succeeded n auspicious hope, which shall look up calm assurance to that blessed place, ch all who seek may win, whatever be rearthly errors, so they be atoned: the commencement of atonement is sense of its necessity.-Say on

all our church can teach thee shall be taught; all we can absolve thee shall be pardon'd.

reconcile thyself with thy own soul,

thy own soul with heaven. Hast thou no hope?

s strange-even those who do despair above,

Yet shape themselves some phantasy on earth,
To which frail twig they cling, like drowning men.
MAN. Ay-father! I have had those earthly visions
And noble aspirations in my youth,

To make my own the mind of other men,
The enlightener of nations; and to rise
I knew not whither-it might be to fall;
But fall, even as the mountain-cataract,
Which having leapt from its more dazzling height,
Even in the foaming strength of its abyss,
(Which casts up misty columns that become
Clouds raining from the re-ascended skies,)
Lies low but mighty still.—But this is past,
My thoughts mistook themselves.

Аввот.

And wherefore so?

MAN. I could not tame my nature down; for he Must serve who fain would sway-and soothe-and

sue

And watch all time-and pry into all place-
And be a living lie-who would become

A mighty thing amongst the mean, and such
The mass are; I disdain'd to mingle with
A herd, though to be leader-and of wolves.
The lion is alone, and so am I.

ABBOT. And why not live and act with other men ?

MAN. Because my nature was averse from life;

yet not cruel; for I would not make, find a desolation:-like the wind,

red-hot breath of the most lone Simoom,

ch dwells but in the desert, and sweeps o'er
barren sands which bear no shrubs to blast,
revels o'er their wild and arid waves,
seeketh not, so that it is not sought,
being met is deadly; such hath been g
course of my existence; but there came
ngs in my path which are no more.

in to fear that thou art past all aid
m me and from my calling; yet so young,
ill would-

IAN.

Look on me! there is an order mortals on the earth, who do become in their youth, and die ere middle age, hout the violence of warlike death; e perishing of pleasure-some of studyhe worn with toil-some of mere weariness e of disease-and some insanity

1 some of wither'd, or of broken hearts; this last is a malady which slays

re than are number'd in the lists of Fate,

ing all shapes, and bearing many names.

Have I partaken; and of all these things,
One were enough; then wonder not that I
Am what I am, but that I ever was,
Or having been, that I am still on earth.
ABBOT. Yet, hear me still-

ΜΑΝ.

Old man! I do respect

Thine order, and revere thine years;

I deem

Thy purpose pious, but it is in vain:
Think me not churlish; I would spare thyself,
Far more than me, in shunning at this time

All further colloquy-and so-farewell.

[Exit MANFRED.

ABBOT. This should have been a noble creature: he

Hath all the energy which would have made

A goodly frame of glorious elements,

Had they been wisely mingled; as it is,

It is an awful chaos-light and darkness

And mind and dust-and passions and pure thoughts,
Mix'd, and contending without end or order,

All dormant or destructive: he will perish,
And yet he must not; I will try once more,
For such are worth redemption; and my duty
Is to dare all things for a righteous end.
I'll follow him-but cautiously, though surely.
[Exit ABBOT.

MANFRED and HERMAN.

ER. My lord, you bade me wait on you at sunset: inks behind the mountain.

AN.

Glorious Orb! the idol

arly nature, and the vigorous race ndiseased mankind, the giant sons (4) ne embrace of angels, with a sex

e beautiful than they, which did draw down erring spirits who can ne'er return.glorious orb! that wert a worship, ere mystery of thy making was reveal'd!

a earliest minister of the Almighty,

ch gladden'd, on their mountain tops, the hearts he Chaldean shepherds, till they pour'd mselves in orisons! Thou material God! representative of the Unknown