NOTES:  5 like unextinguished B, edition 1839; like an unextinguished 1820. 13 night B, edition 1839; might 1820. 20 destined B, edition 1839; distant 1820.

DEMOGORGON: 
Eternity.  Demand no direr name. 
Descend, and follow me down the abyss. 
I am thy child, as thou wert Saturn’s child;
Mightier than thee:  and we must dwell together 55
Henceforth in darkness.  Lift thy lightnings not. 
The tyranny of heaven none may retain,
Or reassume, or hold, succeeding thee: 
Yet if thou wilt, as ’tis the destiny
Of trodden worms to writhe till they are dead, 60
Put forth thy might.

JUPITER: 
Detested prodigy! 
Even thus beneath the deep Titanian prisons
I trample thee! thou lingerest? 
Mercy! mercy! 
No pity, no release, no respite!  Oh,
That thou wouldst make mine enemy my judge, 65
Even where he hangs, seared by my long revenge,
On Caucasus! he would not doom me thus. 
Gentle, and just, and dreadless, is he not
The monarch of the world?  What then art thou? 
No refuge! no appeal! 
Sink with me then, 70
We two will sink on the wide waves of ruin,
Even as a vulture and a snake outspent
Drop, twisted in inextricable fight,
Into a shoreless sea.  Let hell unlock
Its mounded oceans of tempestuous fire, 75
And whelm on them into the bottomless void
This desolated world, and thee, and me,
The conqueror and the conquered, and the wreck
Of that for which they combated. 
Ai, Ai! 
The elements obey me not.  I sink 80
Dizzily down, ever, for ever, down. 
And, like a cloud, mine enemy above
Darkens my fall with victory!  Ai, Ai!

NOTE: 
69 then B, edition 1839; omitted 1820.

SCENE 3.2: 
THE MOUTH OF A GREAT RIVER IN THE ISLAND ATLANTIS. 
OCEAN IS DISCOVERED RECLINING NEAR THE SHORE;
APOLLO STANDS BESIDE HIM.

OCEAN: 
He fell, thou sayest, beneath his conqueror’s frown?

APOLLO: 
Ay, when the strife was ended which made dim
The orb I rule, and shook the solid stars,
The terrors of his eye illumined heaven
With sanguine light, through the thick ragged skirts 5
Of the victorious darkness, as he fell: 
Like the last glare of day’s red agony,
Which, from a rent among the fiery clouds,
Burns far along the tempest-wrinkled deep.

OCEAN: 
He sunk to the abyss?  To the dark void? 10

APOLLO: 
An eagle so caught in some bursting cloud
On Caucasus, his thunder-baffled wings
Entangled in the whirlwind, and his eyes
Which gazed on the undazzling sun, now blinded
By the white lightning, while the ponderous hail 15
Beats on his struggling form, which sinks at length
Prone, and the aereal ice clings over it.