ASIA
  And who made terror, madness, crime, remorse,
  Which from the links of the great chain of things
  To every thought within the mind of man
  Sway and drag heavily, and each one reels
  Under the load towards the pit of death;
  Abandoned hope, and love that turns to hate;
  And self-contempt, bitterer to drink than blood;
  Pain, whose unheeded and familiar speech
  Is howling, and keen shrieks, day after day;
  And Hell, or the sharp fear of Hell?

DEMOGORGON
  He reigns.

ASIA
  Utter his name; a world pining in pain
  Asks but his name; curses shall drag him down.

DEMOGORGON
  He reigns.

ASIA
  I feel, I know it: who?

DEMOGORGON
  He reigns.

ASIA
  Who reigns? There was the Heaven and Earth at first,
  And Light and Love; then Saturn, from whose throne
  Time fell, an envious shadow; such the state
  Of the earth's primal spirits beneath his sway,
  As the calm joy of flowers and living leaves
  Before the wind or sun has withered them
  And semivital worms; but he refused