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SPIRIT.

Yet pause: being here, our will would do thee ser- vice; Bethink thee, is there then no other gikt

Which we can make not worthless in thine eyes?

MANFRED.

No, none: yet stay— one moment, ere We part— I would behold ye face to face. I hear

Vour voices, sweet and melancholy sounds,

As music on the waters; and I see

The steady aspect of a clear large star;

But nothing more. Approach me as yé are,

Or one, or all, in your accustom'd forms!

SPIRIT.

We have no forms beyond the elements Of which we are the mind and principle:

But choose a form— in that we will appear-

h)

G⁸ʃ

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