MERMAN AND MERMAID.
(Grand Operatic Phantasmagoria)
KING REIGNALL.
Summon my army of Spirits.
(Trumpet calls)
(The army appears with weapons shaped like the planet Saturn which cast out balls of
strong lights.)
I command you strangers
Leave this sphere at once.
Go whence you came.
OWONDLO.
No! never, unless you release
Our parents from within
Your confounded dungeon.
KING REIGNALL.
Charge on the enemy,
Who came to molest us
In this spiritual sphere.
(Rolling scenes, battle of spirits with Owondlo and Fleehion ; no harm is done; Owondlo and Fleehion are immune. Mechanical reflections of various lights in appearance of human forms thrown about them.)
KING REIGNALL.
(Aria)
How strange this mystery.
Can it be
That before me gazes
The Almighty Supreme.
Never I dreamt
Of such disgrace
That befell me
In this spiritual place.
Open the dungeon;
Let the spirits come hither,
I proclaim them sacred and free.
(The Almighty Creator "God" looks down from above as all sing praises of love. He warns Owondlo and Fleehion to begone.)
