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THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. 
 
IST NYMPH 
 
From what a lash ! 
 
2ND NYMPH 
 
O the monstrous travail—gape  
In the belly of the sky ! 
 
IST NYMPH 
 
Shall the man beget the ape,  
All the wine of time run dry ? 
 
2ND NYMPH 
 
Ah !  the grisly spoil of rape  
Dark with vilest ecstasy ! 
 
IST NYMPH 
 
Listen, how shall life escape  
From such death it breedeth by ? 
 
2ND NYMPH 
 
Hangs there not a single grape  
From that nightshade galaxy ?