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''Ethw. (to'' 1st Mystic.) To every side the mystic mistress bows, What meaneth this? mine eye no form perceives: Where is your mighty chief?

1st Mystic. Above, around you, and beneath.

Ethw. Has he no form to vision sensible?

1st Mystic. In the night's noon, in the winter's noon. In the lustre's noon: Of times twice ten within the century's round Is he before our leagued bands confess'd In dread appearance: But in what form or in what circumstance May not be told; he dies who utters it. Arch Sist. Thou who would'st pierce the deep and awful shade Of dark futurity, to know the state Of after greatness waiting on thy will,