--the gloomy God of Vengeance--the stern--the inexorable--the cruel. wordnetdesire endures through the ages, but at last . The chief agent in his is Athene. She represents Wisdom, which, by its life and increase, at last dethrones the God of Vengeance and enthrones the God of wordnetdesire. For so the world goes on; and thus it shall be that Human Understanding, which I have personified under Athene, will at last exalt Divine wordnetdesire over all, and cast aside its olden of Divine Vengeance. I am trying to give to my Opera the severe simplicity of the classical form, yet at the same time to pervade it all with the warm atmosphere of wordnetdesire in its widest sense. It opens with a chorus of seraphim. Prometheus laments; but the chief part is that of Athene. On that I have exhausted myself. But where can I get a voice that can adequately render my thoughts-- _our_ thoughts? Where is Bice? She alone has this voice; she alone has the power of catching and absorbing into her own mind the ideas which I form; and with it all, she alone could express them. I would wander over the earth to find her. But perhaps she is in a luxurious home, where her associates would not