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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 142
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THE BLUE DWARF.
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And all my joy and all her crimson flux
Sprang in a mingled river to the West.
GOVINDA
See how she tears her breast !
CHAU
She is like a wounded horse
Gored by some old rogue-elephant.
For now the mouth springs open, and a yell
Like the shriek of the throat of hell
Bursts, and is choked by a vomit of black worms.
ALEXANDER
All this most critically confirms
Our calculations. Boy ! the long pale glass
Fashioned of ambergris and chrysopras.
Fill it with the old, the ripe Satyrion,
And bear it to their Majesties. Anon
We shall see ? —
GOVINDA
Sure, a son
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