NOTE: 
see’st thou B; I see thin 1820; I see 1839.

PANTHEA: 
A countenance with beckoning smiles:  there burns
An azure fire within its golden locks! 
Another and another:  hark! they speak!

SONG OF SPIRITS: 
To the deep, to the deep,
Down, down! 55
Through the shade of sleep,
Through the cloudy strife
Of Death and of Life;
Through the veil and the bar
Of things which seem and are 60
Even to the steps of the remotest throne,
Down, down!

While the sound whirls around,
Down, down! 
As the fawn draws the hound, 65
As the lightning the vapour,
As a weak moth the taper;
Death, despair; love, sorrow;
Time both; to-day, to-morrow;
As steel obeys the spirit of the stone, 70
Down, down!

Through the gray, void abysm,
Down, down! 
Where the air is no prism,
And the moon and stars are not, 75
And the cavern-crags wear not
The radiance of Heaven,
Nor the gloom to Earth given,
Where there is One pervading, One alone,
Down, down! 80

In the depth of the deep,
Down, down! 
Like veiled lightning asleep,
Like the spark nursed in embers,
The last look Love remembers, 85
Like a diamond, which shines
On the dark wealth of mines,
A spell is treasured but for thee alone. 
Down, down!

We have bound thee, we guide thee; 90
Down, down! 
With the bright form beside thee;
Resist not the weakness,
Such strength is in meekness
That the Eternal, the Immortal, 95
Must unloose through life’s portal
The snake-like Doom coiled underneath his throne
By that alone.

SCENE 2.4: 
THE CAVE OF DEMOGORGON. 
ASIA AND PANTHEA.

PANTHEA: 
What veiled form sits on that ebon throne?

ASIA: 
The veil has fallen.

PANTHEA: 
I see a mighty darkness
Filling the seat of power, and rays of gloom
Dart round, as light from the meridian sun. 
—­Ungazed upon and shapeless; neither limb, 5
Nor form, nor outline; yet we feel it is
A living Spirit.

DEMOGORGON: 
Ask what thou wouldst know.

ASIA: 
What canst thou tell?

DEMOGORGON: 
All things thou dar’st demand.

ASIA: 
Who made the living world?

DEMOGORGON: 
God.

ASIA: 
Who made all
That it contains? thought, passion, reason, will, 10
Imagination?

DEMOGORGON: 
God:  Almighty God.