The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_Val._ Nay, My Alvar lov'd sad music from a child.
Once he was lost; and after weary search We found him in an open place in [of _Osor._] the wood, To which spot he had followed a blind boy, Who breath'd into a pipe of sycamore Some strangely-moving notes: and these, he said, Were taught him in a dream. Him we first saw Stretch'd on the broad top of a sunny heath-bank; And lower down poor Alvar, fast asleep, His head upon the blind boy's dog. It pleas'd me To mark how he had fasten'd round the pipe A silver toy his {grandmother had _Osor._ {grandam had late given him.
Methinks I see him now as he then look'd-- { His infant dress was grown too short for him, _Osor._ { Even so!--He had outgrown his infant dress, Yet still he wore it.
_Alv. (aside)._ My tears must not flow!
I must not clasp his knees, and cry, My father!
_Enter TERESA and attendants._
Remorse.
[These lines with the variants as noted above are included in Osorio, Act III, lines 58-74.]
[After 3] stage-direction om. Remorse.
[Between 3 and 4]
_Ordonio._ Believe you then no preternatural influence?
{ Believe you not that spirits throng around us?
{ I thought you held that spirits throng'd around us?
Corr. in MS. III.
_Ter._ Say rather that I have imagined it A possible thing; and it has sooth'd my soul As other fancies have; but ne'er seduced me To traffic with the black and frenzied hope, That the dead hear the voice of witch or wizard.
Remorse.
[4] _you_] you Remorse.
[5] employments] employment Remorse.
[9] things] guilt Remorse.
[10] Stand ye from the altar Remorse.
[After 10] [_Here_, &c. . . . scene Remorse.
[13] spells] spell Remorse.
[21] unstun'd] unstunn'd Remorse.
[After 23] [_Music_ Remorse.
[29] build up] upbuild Remorse.
[37] [_Here behind the scenes a voice sings the three words, 'Hear, sweet Spirit.'_ Remorse.
[After 43] SONG.--_Behind the scenes_, &c. Remorse.
[50] chanters] chaunter Remorse.
[58-74] are printed as ll. 1-17, Act III, Sc. I Remorse.
[61] of] in Remorse.
[70-72]
A silver toy his grandam had late given him, Methinks I see him now as he then look'd-- Even so!--He had outgrown his infant dress,
Remorse, Act III, ll. 13-15.
[79] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[87] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[88-9]
But what if he had a brother, Who had lived even so
Remorse.
[91-2]
_Valdez._ Idly prating man!
Thou hast guess'd ill: Don Alvar's only brother Stands here before thee--a father's blessing on him!
He is most virtuous.
Remorse.
[96] excellently] exquisitely Remorse.
[Between 104 and 105]
[_Music again._
_Teresa._ 'Tis strange, I tremble at my own conjectures!
But whatso'er it mean, I dare no longer Be present at these lawless mysteries, This dark provoking of the hidden Powers!
Already I affront--if not high Heaven-- Yet Alvar's memory!--Hark! I make appeal Against the unholy rite, and hasten hence To bend before a lawful shrine, and seek That voice which whispers, when the still heart listens, Comfort and faithful hope! Let us retire.
_Alv. (to TERESA)._ O full of faith and guileless love, thy spirit Still prompts thee wisely. Let the pangs of guilt Surprise the guilty: thou art innocent!
[_Exeunt TERESA and Attendant. Music as before._
Remorse.
[106] an eye of flesh] a human eye Remorse.
[108] come quick] O come Remorse.