Beauty
(Sadly, in a thin voice.) Lord, am I forgotten? (He makes no answer.)
Love
(In a thin voice.) Lord, canst thou no longer think on me? (He makes no answer.)
Hope
(Weakly.) Lord, am I no more to thee? (No answer.)
Pity
Canst thou not remember me, Lord? (No answer.)
Reason
Lord, am I as nothing to thee now? (No answer.)
Ambition
(To the clouds of darkness behind him as the first of the six great Powers leap forth.) Join them thou! Forth!
First Power of Darkness
(Hundred-headed, winged and fanged, leaping from the brain of the Creator at illimitable speed.) Hail! I go to harry! To slay!
Second Power of Darkness
(Hundred-headed, winged and fanged, rushing forth at illimitable speed.) Hail! I go to rack, to torture!
Third Power of Darkness
(Hundred-headed, winged and fanged, rushing forth at illimitable speed.) Hail! I go to ravage! To gall! To flay!
Fourth Power of Darkness
(Hundred-headed, winged and fanged, rushing forth at illimitable speed.) Hail! Where Sorrow is not, I carry it!
Fifth Power of Darkness
(Hundred-headed, winged and fanged, rushing forth at illimitable speed.) Hail! Where Happiness is, I destroy it!
Sixth Power of Darkness
(Hundred-headed, seven-horned, winged and fanged, rushing forth at illimitable speed.) Hail! Hail! Where Peace is, and Love, I make them as not! (They speed to his right hand and to his left, above and beneath him, before and behind him.)