SEMICHORUS I OF THE YEARS [aerial music]

Last as first the question rings
Of the Will's long travailings;
Why the All-mover,
Why the All-prover
Ever urges on and measure out the chordless chime of Things.[27]

SEMICHORUS II

Heaving dumbly
As we deem,
Moulding numbly
As in dream
Apprehending not how fare the sentient subjects of Its scheme.

SEMICHORUS I OF THE PITIES

Nay;--shall not Its blindness break?
Yea, must not Its heart awake,
Promptly tending
To Its mending
In a genial germing purpose, and for loving-kindness sake?

SEMICHORUS II

Should it never
Curb or care
Aught whatever
Those endure
Whom It quickens, let them darkle to extinction swift and sure.

CHORUS

But--a stirring thrills the air
Like to sounds of joyance there
That the rages
Of the ages
Shall be cancelled, and deliverance offered from the darts that were,
Consciousness the Will informing, till It fashion all things fair!

THE END OF "THE DYNASTS"

September 25, 1907

FOOTNOTES

[Footnote 1: Schlegel.]

[Footnote 2: Introduction to the _Choephori_.]

[Footnote 3: It is now called an Epic-drama, Footnote 1909.]

[Footnote 4: Through this tangle of intentions the writer has in the main
followed Thiers, whose access to documents would seem to
authenticate his details of the famous scheme for England's ruin.]

[Footnote 5: These historic facings, which, I believe, won for the local
[Footnote old 39th: regiment the nickname of "Green Linnets," have been
changed for no apparent reason. Footnote They are now restored--1909]

[Footnote 6: The remains of the lonely hut occupied by the beacon-keepers,
consisting of some half-buried brickbats, and a little mound
of peat overgrown with moss, are still visible on the elevated
spot referred to. The two keepers themselves, and their
eccentricities and sayings are traditionary, with a slight
disguise of names.]

[Footnote 7: "Le projet existe encore aux archives de la marine que
Napoleon consultait incessamment; il sentait que cette marine
depuis Louis XIV. avait fait de grandes choses: le plan de
l'Expedition d'Egypte et de la descente en Angleterre se
trouvaient au ministere de la marine."--CAPEFIGUE: L'Europe
pendant le