Emits a brighter ray.

SECOND PRIEST.

Why this delay? At length for joy prepare;

I read your looks, and see compliance there.

Come on, and bid the warbling rapture rise:

Our monarch's fame the noblest theme supplies.

Begin, ye captive bands, and strike the lyre;

The time, the theme, the place, and all conspire.

CHALDEAN WOMAN.

Air.