Scene, a Part of the Forest near the Cave of PROMETHEUS. PANTHEA and IONE are sleeping: they awaken gradually during the first Song.

VOICE OF UNSEEN SPIRITS
  The pale stars are gone!
  For the sun, their swift shepherd
  To their folds them compelling,
  In the depths of the dawn,
  Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and they flee
  Beyond his blue dwelling,
  As fawns flee the leopard,
  But where are ye?

A Train of dark Forms and Shadows passes by confusedly, singing.

  Here, oh, here!
  We bear the bier
  Of the father of many a cancelled year!