(_Writhing in a last insane agony._) Oh, ho, ho, ho! Oh, ho, ho, ho! Let me have done with Life! Let me have done with Thought--Pain--with Order, Beauty, Hope! Let me have done with all things! Oh, ho, ho, ho! Sick--sick! Death! Death! Burn! Harry! Slay! Oh, ho, ho, ho! I will have done with all! (_He tears at his snaky locks._) REASON (_Sadly._) Great Master of us all, so this then is the end? I, who was thy thought of order, am disordered! I, who was thy strength, am thy weakness! So sink I back to nothingness! (_He re-enters the brow of the Lord._) LOVE And I, who was his thought of happiness! So come I to nothingness again! (_She re-enters the forehead of the Lord._) PITY And I, who was his thought of tenderness! (_She fades into his brain._) HOPE And I, who was his thought of love and peace! (_She disappears also._) BEAUTY (_Paling._) Yet is he not done with me! Mad though he be, even though he sleep, now I feel his thought! He is in me, as I in him! I will be worshiped! I will be worshiped! (_She re-enters his brow undiminished._) FIRST POWER OF DARKNESS (_Returning and entering in._) All that was to thy left hand is not! THE LORD ’Tis well! SECOND POWER OF DARKNESS (_Returning and entering in._) All that was to thy right hand is not. THE LORD ’Tis well! THIRD POWER OF DARKNESS (_Returning and entering in._) All that was before thee is not! THE LORD ’Tis well! FOURTH POWER OF DARKNESS (_Returning and entering in._) All that was behind thee is not! THE LORD ’Tis well! FIFTH POWER OF DARKNESS (_Returning and entering._) All that was above thee is not! THE LORD ’Tis well! SIXTH POWER OF DARKNESS (_Returning and entering._) All that was beneath thee is not! THE LORD ’Tis well! AMBITION ’Tis well! Hail, Lord! As thou wouldst, I have ended thy dreams! Canst thou not rest? THE LORD OF THE UNIVERSE (_Writhing._) Oh, ho, ho, ho! Oh, ho, ho, ho! I dream! I dream! It is too much! Destroy! Destroy! I will have peace! I will have peace! (_He turns and writhes, sinking in weariness as he does so, and partially disappearing. Æons elapse._) FIRST POWER OF DARKNESS (_Beginning to fade in the brain of the Lord._) It is of me that he ceases to think! I fail! (_He disappears._) AMBITION (_Sadly._) It is the end! SECOND POWER OF DARKNESS (_Beginning to fade in the brain of the Lord._) It is of me he ceases to think. Oh, ho, ho, ho! I fail! (_He disappears._) AMBITION (_Sadly._) It is the end! THIRD POWER OF DARKNESS (_Writhing and fading in the brain of the Lord._) It is of me he ceases to think! I fail! Oh, ho, ho, ho! (_He disappears._) AMBITION It is the end! FOURTH POWER OF DARKNESS (_Fading into the brain of the Lord._) It is of me he ceases to think! I fail! (_He groans and disappears._) AMBITION It is the end! FIFTH POWER OF DARKNESS It is of me he ceases to think! I fail! (_He disappears._) AMBITION It is the end! SIXTH POWER OF DARKNESS