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THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. 
 
CHAU 
 
I wager thirty loads of merchandise  
Most precious — sandalwood and gold and spice  
And jewels, and divine medicaments,  
And goat-hair broideries, and silken tents — 
And thirty diamonds of the purest water,  
It is a daughter ! 
 
ALEXANDER 
 
I take it — and yours too, my lord.  Maybe  
You both are wrong. 
 
GOVINDA 
 
True, this much mystery  
Veils the whole matter — it were hard to say. 
 
CHAU 
 
Shang Ti !  how fierce a bray  
The amorous ass gives. 
 
MIRIAM 
 
Heave, o heave, my sides ! 
Stretch !  Split !  This pang decides