From opera "Dido & Aeneas", c. 1684
Composer Henry Purcell

ACT ONE
Scene Two The Cave

SORCERESS
Wayward sisters, you that fright
the lonely traveller by night,
Who, like dismal ravens crying,
beat the windows of the dying.
Appear! Appear at my call, and share in the fame.
Of a mischief shall make all Carthage flame.
Appear!