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SCENE VI.
Changes to the Wood.Enter Cleone, and the Child.
Cleone.
Whence do these terrors seize my sinking heart?
Since guilt I know not, why submit to fear?
And yet these silent shadowy scenes awake
Strange apprehensions. Gracious Heaven, protect
My weakness!—Hark! what noise is that?—all still.
It was but fancy.—Yet methought the howl
Of distant wolves broke on the ear of Night,
Doubling the desart's horror.
Child.
O I'm frighted!
Why do you speak, and look so strangely at me?
Cleone.
I will not fright my love. Come, let's go on—
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[Sees Ragozin enter with a dagger and a mask on. She flies with her child, he follows.
Ragozin.
Stop—for thou fly'st in vain.
Cleone
(within the scenes)
Help! mercy! Save,
O save my child! O murder! O my child!
[She retreats back to the scene, and falls in a swoon.
[Re-enter Ragozin.
Ragozin.
She too is dead!—I fear'd that blow was short—
But hark! what noise!—I must not be detected—
[Exit.
Cleone,
waking from her trance.
Where have I been? What horrid hand hath stamp'd
This dreadful vision on my brain? O Death!
Have I not past thy terrors? Am I still
In this bad world? What ails my heart? my head?
Was not my child here with me? Sure he was—
And some foul fiend suggests to my sad heart
That he is murder'd! Gracious Heaven, forbid!
Conduct my steps, kind Providence, to where
My little wanderer strays, that I may know
This horror in my mind is but a dream.
[Goes out.
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