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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 138
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THE BLUE DWARF.
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When the wine fills me. Pray you !
His slave presents wine to Govinda, who drinks.
GOVINDA
Health, my lord !
This wine is marvellous dry !
Scented like clover reaching up the broad
Edge of some glacier in my northern marches.
CHAU
Look, how she writhes — speechless distemperature
Her shriek within her gorge that parches !
GOVINDA
Boy, bid that cup-slave from Ferozapur
Make me an ode of this — nay, while I think !
An elegy.
CHAU
Please your majesty to drink ?
GOVINDA
Thanks, brother. Well, my gipsy girl divined
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