The Dynasts | Page 7

TOMLINE, BISHOP OF LINCOLN. SIR WALTER FARQUHAR.
Count Munster. Other Peers, Ministers, ex-Ministers, Members of
Parliament, and Persons of Quality.
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NELSON. COLLINGWOOD. HARDY. SECRETARY SCOTT. DR.
BEATTY. DR. MAGRATH. DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT. BURKE,
PURSER. Lieutenant Pasco. ANOTHER LIEUTENANT. POLLARD,
A MIDSHIPMAN. Captain Adair. Lieutenants Ram and Whipple.
Other English Naval Officers. Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines.
Staff and other Officers of the English Army. A COMPANY OF
SOLDIERS. Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian.
SAILORS AND BOATMEN. A MILITIAMAN. Naval Crews.
. . . . . . . . . .
The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London. A GENTLEMAN OF
FASHION. WILTSHIRE, A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN A
HORSEMAN. TWO BEACON-WATCHERS. ENGLISH CITIZENS
AND BURGESSES. COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY
PASSENGERS. MESSENGERS, SERVANTS, AND RUSTICS.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. DARU, NAPOLEON'S WAR
SECRETARY. LAURISTON, AIDE-DE-CAMP. MONGE, A
PHILOSOPHER. BERTHIER. MURAT, BROTHER-IN-LAW OF
NAPOLEON. SOULT. NEY. LANNES. Bernadotte. Marmont. Dupont.
Oudinot. Davout. Vandamme. Other French Marshals. A
SUB-OFFICER.
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VILLENEUVE, NAPOLEON'S ADMIRAL. DECRES, MINISTER
OF MARINE. FLAG-CAPTAIN MAGENDIE. LIEUTENANT
DAUDIGNON. LIEUTENANT FOURNIER. Captain Lucas. OTHER

FRENCH NAVAL OFFICERS AND PETTY OFFICERS. Seamen of
the French and Spanish Navies. Regiments of the French Army.
COURIERS. HERALDS. Aides, Officials, Pages, etc. ATTENDANTS.
French Citizens.
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CARDINAL CAPRARA. Priests, Acolytes, and Choristers. Italian
Doctors and Presidents of Institutions. Milanese Citizens.
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THE EMPEROR FRANCIS. THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND. Prince
John of Lichtenstien. PRINCE SCHWARZENBERG. MACK,
AUSTRIAN GENERAL. JELLACHICH. RIESC. WEIROTHER.
ANOTHER AUSTRIAN GENERAL. TWO AUSTRIAN OFFICERS.
. . . . . . . . . .
The Emperor Alexander. PRINCE KUTUZOF, RUSSIAN
FIELD-MARSHAL. COUNT LANGERON. COUNT BUXHOVDEN.
COUNT MILORADOVICH. DOKHTOROF.
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Giulay, Gottesheim, Klenau, and Prschebiszewsky. Regiments of the
Austrian Army. Regiments of the Russian Army.
WOMEN
Queen Charlotte. English Princesses. Ladies of the English Court.
LADY HESTER STANHOPE. A LADY. Lady Caroline Lamb, Mrs.
Damer, and other English Ladies.
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THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE. Princesses and Ladies of Josephine's
Court. Seven Milanese Young Ladies.
. . . . . . . . . .
City- and Towns-women. Country-women. A MILITIAMAN'S WIFE.
A STREET-WOMAN. Ship-women. Servants.

FORE SCENE
THE OVERWORLD
[Enter the Ancient Spirit and Chorus of the Years, the Spirit and
Chorus of the Pities, the Shade of the Earth, the Spirits Sinister and
Ironic with their Choruses, Rumours, Spirit- Messengers, and
Recording Angels.]
SHADE OF THE EARTH

What of the Immanent Will and Its designs?
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS
It works unconsciously, as heretofore, Eternal artistries in
Circumstance, Whose patterns, wrought by rapt aesthetic rote, Seem in
themselves Its single listless aim, And not their consequence.
CHORUS OF THE PITIES (aerial music)
Still thus? Still thus? Ever unconscious! An automatic sense Unweeting
why or whence? Be, then, the inevitable, as of old, Although that SO it
be we dare not hold!
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS
Hold what ye list, fond believing Sprites, You cannot swerve the
pulsion of the Byss, Which thinking on, yet weighing not Its thought,
Unchecks Its clock-like laws.
SPIRIT SINISTER (aside)
Good, as before. My little engines, then, will still have play.
SPIRIT OF THE PITIES
Why doth It so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of
the Wheel?
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS
As one sad story runs, It lends Its heed To other worlds, being wearied
out with this; Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes. Some, too,
have told at whiles that rightfully Its warefulness, Its care, this planet
lost When in her early growth and crudity By bad mad acts of
severance men contrived, Working such nescience by their own
device.-- Yea, so it stands in certain chronicles, Though not in mine.
SPIRIT OF THE PITIES
Meet is it, none the less, To bear in thought that though Its
consciousness May be estranged, engrossed afar, or sealed, Sublunar
shocks may wake Its watch anon?
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS
Nay. In the Foretime, even to the germ of Being, Nothing appears of
shape to indicate That cognizance has marshalled things terrene, Or
will (such is my thinking) in my span. Rather they show that, like a
knitter drowsed, Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness, The Will
has woven with an absent heed Since life first was; and ever will so
weave.
SPIRIT SINISTER

Hence we've rare dramas going--more so since It wove Its web in the
Ajaccian womb!
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS
Well, no more this on what no mind can mete. Our scope is but to
register and watch By means of this great gift accorded