The Duke's bed-chamber, without his alarming
The servants of the Court; for he has here
A numerous company of followers?

BUTLER.

THEKLA (looking around her).
Where am I?

WALLENSTEIN (steps to her, raising her up in his arms).
Come, cheerly, Thekla! be my own brave girl!

The attendants fill the right wing; he hates bustle, See, there's thy loving mother. Thou art in

And lodges in the left wing quite alone.

Thy father's arms.

SCENE III.

WALLENSTEIN.

Dearest daughter!

THEKLA.

The horror overpower'd me by surprise.
My heart betray'd me in the stranger's presence;
He was a witness of my weakness, yea,

Where art thou going? I heard Tertsky say
That 'tis thy purpose to depart from hence
To-morrow early, but to leave us here.

WALLENSTEIN.

Yes, ye stay here, placed under the protection
Of gallant inen.

COUNTESS.

O take us with you, brother!

Leave us not in this gloomy solitude

CAPTAIN.

We, lay, expecting no attack, at Neustadt,
Intrench'd but insecurely in our camp,
When towards evening rose a cloud of dust
From the wood thitherward; our vanguard fled
Into the camp, and sounded the alarm.

Scarce had we mounted, ere the Pappenheimers,
Their horses at full speed, broke through the lines,
And leapt the trenches; but their heedless courage

To brood o'er anxious thoughts. The mists of doubt Had borne them onward far before the others—
Magnify evils to a shape of horror.

The infantry were still at distance only.
The Pappenheimers follow'd daringly
Their daring leader-

Both in van and flanks With our whole cavalry we now received them;

These walls breathe on me, like a church-yard vault. Back to the trenches drove them, where the foot

Stretch'd out a solid ridge of pikes to meet them.
They neither could advance, nor yet retreat;
And as they stood on every side wedged in,
The Rhinegrave to their leader call'd aloud,
Inviting a surrender; but their leader,
Young Piccolomini-

[THELLA, as giddy, grasps a chair.
Known by his plume,
And his long hair, gave signal for the trenches;
Himself leapt first, the regiment all plunged after.
His charger, by a halbert gored, rear'd up,
Flung him with violence off, and over him
The horses, now no longer to be curb'd,

[THEKLA who has accompanied the last speech with
all the marks of increasing agony, trembles
through her whole frame, and is falling. The
LADY NEUBRUNN runs to her, and receives her
in her arms.

[Exeunt DUCHESS and COUNTESS. My dearest lady▬▬▬▬

NEUBRUNN.

[THEKLA steps to the table, and takes a ring from Under the hoofs of his war-horses?

SCENE VI.

THEKLA.

His spirit 'tis that calls me: 'tis the troop

Of his true followers, who offer'd up

Themselves to avenge his death: and they accuse me
Of an ignoble loitering-they would not

Forsake their leader even in his death-they died for
him!

And shall I live?

That decks his bier.

For me too was that laurel-garland twined
Life is an empty casket:
O! my only hope;-

I throw it from me.
To die beneath the hoofs of trampling steeds—
That is the lot of heroes upon earth! [Exit THEKLA.*
(The curtain drops).

ACT V.

SCENE I.

SCENE-A Saloon, terminated by a Gallery which extends far into the back-ground. WALLENSTEIN (sitting at a table).

THE SWEDISH CAPTAIN (standing before him).

WALLENSTEIN.

Commend me to your lord. I sympathize
In his good fortune; and if you have seen me
Deficient in the expressions of that joy,
Which such a victory might well demand,
Attribute it to no lack of good-will,

For henceforth are our fortunes one. Farewell,

And for your trouble take my thanks. To-morrow
The citadel shall be surrender'd to you
On your arrival.

[The SWEDISH CAPTAIN retires. WALLENSTEIN sits
lost in thought, his eyes fixed vacantly, and his
head sustained by his hand. The COUNTESS
TERTSKY enters, stands before him awhile, un-
observed by him; at length he starts, sees her
and recollects himself.

WALLENSTEIN.

Comest thou from her? Is she restored? How is she?
COUNTESS.

My sister tells me, she was more collected
After her conversation with the Swede.
She has now retired to rest.

She will shed tears.

WALLENSTEIN.

The pang will soften.

COUNTESS.

I find thee alter'd too,

My brother! After such a victory
I had expected to have found in thee
A cheerful spirit. O remain thou firm!
Sustain, uphold us! For our light thou art,
Our sun.

To a deep quiet, such as he has found,
It draws me on, I know not what to name it,
Resistless does it draw me to his grave.
There will my heart be eased, my tears will flow.
O hasten, make no further questioning!
There is no rest for me till I have left
These walls-they fall in on me-a dim power
Drives me from hence-O mercy! What a feeling!
What pale and hollow forms are those! They fill,
They crowd the place! I have no longer room here!
Mercy! Still more! More still! The hideous swarm!
They press on me; they chase me from these walls-Thy
Those hollow, bodiless forms of living men!

The soliloquy of Thekla consists in the original of six-andtwenty lines, twenty of which are in rhymes of irregular recurrence. I thought it prudent to abridge it. Indeed the whole scone between Thekla and Lady Neubrunn might, perhaps, have been omitted without injury to the play.

H

White stain of light, that single glimmering yonder, This anguish will be wearied down,* I know;

The word "moon-sickle," reminds me of a passage in Har-In thy own chamber. As I enter'd, lo! quoted by Johnson, under the word "falcated." "The It was no more a chamber: the Chartreuse

ened part of the moon appears in the form of a sickle or At Gitschin 'twas, which thou thyself hast founded, ng book, which is while she is moving from the conjunc

to the opposition, or from the new-moon to the full: but fa full to a new again, the enlightened part appears gibbous, *he dark falcated."

The word "wanken" and "schweben" are not easily transThe English words, by which we attempt to render *, either vulgar or pedantic, or not of sufficiently gene*pplication. So "der Wolken Zug"-The Draft, the Proof clouds-The Masses of the Clouds sweep onward amut stream.