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Part III. Your presence I have often felt

In darkness and the stormy night;

And well I know, if need there be,

Ye can put forth your agency

When earth is calm, and heaven is bright.

Then, coming from the wayward world,

That powerful world in which ye dwell,

Come, Spirits of the Mind! and try

To-night, beneath the moonlight sky,

What may be done with Peter Bell!

—O, would that some more skilful voice,

My further labour might prevent!

Kind listeners, that around me sit,

I feel that I am all unfit

For such high argument.