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PANTHEA
  I see a mighty darkness
  Filling the seat of power, and rays of gloom
  Dart round, as light from the meridian sun,
  Ungazed upon and shapeless; neither limb,
  Nor form, nor outline; yet we feel it is
  A living Spirit.

DEMOGORGON
  Ask what thou wouldst know.

ASIA
  What canst thou tell?

DEMOGORGON
  All things thou dar'st demand.

ASIA
  Who made the living world?

DEMOGORGON
  God.

ASIA
  Who made all
  That it contains? thought, passion, reason, will,
  Imagination?

DEMOGORGON
  God: Almighty God.

ASIA
  Who made that sense which, when the winds of spring
  In rarest visitation, or the voice
  Of one belovèd heard in youth alone,
  Fills the faint eyes with falling tears which dim
  The radiant looks of unbewailing flowers,
  And leaves this peopled earth a solitude
  When it returns no more?

DEMOGORGON
  Merciful God.

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