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Approach, great dame.

Yes, in misfortunes so; That is my eminence: and unto thee I come, an anxious suitor, if that truly Th' unseen mysterious powers with whom thou deal'st, To human weal and woe alliance bear, And may unto the care-rack'd mind foreshew The path of awful fate that lies before it. I do beseech thee!

Say thou dost command; For thro' that sable stole, were it as thick As midnight's curtain, still I could behold Thy keenly-glancing eye, and the dark arch Of royal brows accustom'd to command.

Ha! dost thou see me?

Yea; and who is he, Whose shadowy unreal form behind thee towers, As link'd with thine tho' absent? O'er his head Th' imperial eagle soars, and in his hand He grasps the emblem of supreme command.