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Sol is the heart, Luna the head of heaven.
Bold be the plan, fiery the execution.

SENI.

And both the mighty Lumina by no

Maleficus affronted. Lo! Saturnus,
Innocuous, powerless, in cadente Domo.

WALLENSTEIN.

The empire of Saturnus is gone by:

Lord of the secret birth of things is he;
Within the lap of earth, and in the depths
Of the imagination dominates;
And his are all things that eschew the light.
The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance;
For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now,
And the dark work, complete of preparation,
He draws by force into the realm of light.
Now must we hasten on to action, ere
The scheme, and most auspicious positure
Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight;
For the heavens journey still, and sojourn not.

(There are knocks at the door)

There's some one knocking there. See who it is.

TERTSKY. (from without)

Open, and let me in.

WALLENSTEIN.

Aye—'tis Tertsky.

What is there of such urgence? We are busy.

TERTSKY. (from without)

Lay all aside at present, I entreat you.

It suffers no delaying.

WALLENSTEIN.