ADAt.nikT. Thank, oh thank (îotl ! - My hair still stand* on «.nd ! (Pointing to the tidl open cavity from whirl, h* cam* up.) W'hat dreadful darkness ! lia! I am drenched with blood ! Ai vi i MAS. Listen ! [Thr lamp rutjtémj»! from the Dome g—i ont ; in the background, irkere lately »/••••/ the skeleton* ami Tho Demon's Head, then upprart al«re, HI I O»-bur-d trausjtareney, a decapitatetl In a I ami a *i ••nl lying in a trencher ;• from the tjiot lehrre it appear*, thr following wonl* found forth, Redemption springs from Hlood and Darkness ! [The apparition goes slowly to one tvlr, while ADAI.HKKT is speaking, ami thai disappear*. ADALBERT. See I aright ?—Whoso is the bloody head ? {Hastening toward* it.) Depart not yet! 'Tis e'en already gono ! AHMI D MAN. 'Tis the Haptizer, who with Oro baptizes ! From his blood's fountain tho red Cross arose, Tho truo Cross of tho Saviour, and our sign. [Point* with his sinwl bacard* the middle of the background, where on the very spot where Tho Head had been teen apjiears a tnmrjMrrntly-paintal reil Cross, having the attribute* which ht procefls to enumerate. And from the Cross shoot upwards unto Heaven The solstice, and the roses nnd tho palms. [He swings hi* **nnl. Close up thy portals, Heaven ! [The apparition vanish'*. 1 Apparently the head of John the Itaptut, whom name Molay in ibe next KTIH couplet with those of God and Our Lady.— Trent. ....] Till Tl MCIUI!» IS Cil 1.1 -. 17J