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Household Gods
Household Gods (1912), PDF p. 40
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ADELA.
Til kill her now. But sec! my swan is dead.
Auicta.
‘Yest and what light is breaking overhead?
What blaze of blue and gold envelops us?
Crassus.
O marvel! O miraculous!
Abeta.
‘What is it? Why, my lover's life, in me
Once concentrated, now diffused, illumes
‘The endless reaches of eternity
With infinite brilliance, with intense perfumes.
Autcia.
then your lover was some god’s disguise.
ADELA.
And you have robbed me. Now beware your eyes!
[Ste springs at Arscis, who guards herself
easily. But in the struggle her robe tears.
Autcia.
Take care!
ADELA.
A boy!
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