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… Glenstrae, my pretty wench. If my name and fortune can serve you—there, there! I never could bear to see a pretty lass cry. MOLLY. O my lord! JI am the most unhappy girl A the world. GLENSTRAF. Vell me about it—there, there, don’t cry! MOoLLy. *Y was but yestreen s’ennight. GLENSTRAE. A green wound is easiest cured. MOLLy. My lord, yestreen s‘ennight I was wooed and won, and ere the moonrise he deserted me. GLENSTRAE. Dear, dear! That’s bad, bad, bad, There, there, no doubt we shall be able to do something. MOLLY. My father thinks it is worse—…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…ugustus. [Strikes gong. Enter PRIEST quietly and quickly, ALAIN does not turn round, Good evening, father. All is ready? PRIEST. All, my lord. 1 This play has been publicly performed within the United Kingdom. Stationers’ Hall. All rights reserved. ALAIN, It is near the time, in her room? She has remained PRIEST. All the day. ALAIN. Has she attempted no message? eh? PRIEST, Sir, she —— ALAIN. [Jzterrupts.| She has not succeeded, at least? PRIEST, I am still Father Jerome. [ Pause. ALAIN. She is ready dressed as I ordered? And now praying in the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…the Baptist minister at Brixton (Zr. Chester- ton executes the cake-walk), who they say is a good man, and very much blessed of the dear Lord, my dear, in his ministrations, though of course he has not been brought out of sect as yet.! 2ND AGED SISTER (sotto voce). Dear! Dear! Very sad! Perhaps the dear Lord will open his eyes. [The praying brother sits doum sud- denly, satisfied with himself. A HoRNY-HANDED BROTHER (who rises grunting, as if the action were painful or unfamiliar). Matthew Twenty-fourth and Forty-third and he said unto them: Wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…, mine, mine! Pour forth of Thebes’ abominable wine ! Mine, O thou god, detested and adored ! MEGA:RA. Mine! he is mine! my lover and my lord ! ALECTO. Mine! Iam in his shape! MEG-ERA. Despair! Dispute Never my passion ! TISIPHONE. Sisters ! I am the livid agony that starts Damp on his brow ; the horror in his heart’s Envenomed arteries! and I the fear, The torment, and the hate! Be ye mute ! MEGARA, Be of good cheer! Rend him apart! Hunger and lust we sate, Equal in terror on that heart of hate. ALECTO. Hell’s throne be kingless ! TISIPHONE. M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 47
…ndy! HORTENSE. Iiere, milady. ANGELA. Not enough, you she-devil. More! More! [Exit. ANGELA falls back ¢o sleep. SCENE XI. Paris. ANGELA, LORD and LADY GLEN- STRAE, SIR PERCY DE PERCIVALE. ANGELA. You will not believe what I tell you? These friends will tell you what I mean, and if I mean it! You had your dismissal this morning. Never dare to address me again ! SIR PERcy. What! I have loved you, and you me— No?—it cannot be so! and now—I am ill— you cast me away! (7Zurns his face away.) Forgive me, I am very weak. ANGELA (goes to him and stands …
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LOVE-SONGS Be done with the dragons! Awaits for the lord of the sword On the crest of a mountain the maid, the availing award. The spear of the Wanderer shivers, the God is exhaust. Ue done with the Gods ! the key of Valhalla is lost. The fires that Loki the liar built up of deceit Are like roses that cushion the moss for the warrior’s feet. Be done with the paltry defences! She sleeps. O be done With the mists of the mountain! Awake to the light of the sun! Awake! Let the wave of emotions conflict- ing retire, Let fear and despair be engulfed …
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…silliness of Rome, You'll forgive me, will you not? SCENE XIilI.! The Meeting-House of the Brethren Gathered Together To The Name Of The Lord Jesus, sub-section Anti-Ravenite of the Exclusive section. They are of course Anti-Stewart, and sound on the Ramsgate Question, while observing an armed neu- trality in the matter of Mr. Kelly’s action.” In the midst a table with a loaf and a bottle: also, by their own account, Jesus Christ. Forms, varnished yellow, around it, them, and (I suppose) Him. On one of them is a blackboard with the notice in wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 82
…the gong. Enter PRIEST and bows. ALAIN. Require the presence of the Lady Blanche de Maleétroit, if you please, father. PRIEST (dows). My lord. [Retires. Enter BLANCHE 227 a bridal dress, very shy and ashamed, with downcast eyes. DENYS. [Aside.] Ah! but she is beautiful ! ALAIN, Mademoiselle de Malétroit, allow me to present you to the Damoiseau Denys de Beaulieu. Monsieur Denys, my_ niece. [BLANCHE hears the strange name and ts shocked, looks up and only sees the back of Denys’ head, so low ts he bowing. She understands that he has given anothe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 198
…n strong Demeter won the swift Hermetic word : In bitter days of eld Thus by great force compelled The glad earth saw me, careless of my lord, Rise to her crystal streams and sapphire seas, And Theseus thus owed life to Heracles. Thou mockest me with power ; Thy sceptre’s awful dower Avails me nothing. Shall a mortal bring Such pity wrapped in song And Echo’s choral throng Of all things live and dead to hear me sing ;— And I by pity moved and love Have not thy voice to grant him grace thereof ? Inexorable Lord ! Accursed and abhorred Of men, be…
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…ouths, aware that Percy’s fall Is something to be envied of ye all ; And all ye parsons, seeing that ye pray Your Father for the Luck of Lord Glen- strae. Enough of this! Insistent Fates Bid me return to rhyming 8s. I say what I have seen ill done In honest clean-lived Albion ; And if these things the green tree grows, What price the dry, my lords? Who knows ? You say that I exaggerate ; That ‘‘ we are not as had as that.” (Excuse the doubtful tag of verse !) Au contratre, you are vastly worse. I see the virtuous and the vicious, The sans repro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
… world’s distorted mirror; And dark convulsion and confusion dire Stands for his form of error and of terror. But I perceive, I Orpheus, Lord of Song, And every Lord of Song that me shall follow Down steeps of time’s own agony and wrong, Shall see the lightning bridge the dreadful hollow With jagged flame of master-music, hear The blind curse thunder forth against in vain When the swift glory of the rolling sphere Of song pours forth its utterance, keen with pain, Mad with delight, and calm beyond woe and pleasure. Yea, every son of this my sou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 46
… idle, grim, . Full of black joys and shadowy unspoken fears, Whercin I am master. There is no place for tears. Cold adamant disaster Is lord there, and I overlord. So flits out, like a sword Flashed through a duellist’s live heart, My thought ; in all the abodes of sense, The shrines of love and art, The adytum of omnipotence, I am supreme, through thee, sweet Angela ! For all the beauties of the universe, The glories hidden in the flower’s cup, All, all that wakes the soul to worship, verse, Ripe verse, all wines, all dreams that the soft God…
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…re cross-twisted, bruised, is thrust, a spar, Wreckage of some wild sea, to seas without a star. Listen, O lady, listen, reverend Abbot, Lord of the Monastery, Fort Augustus !! Hear an awakening spirit’s a. b, ab! but Let not thy medieval logic thrust us Into contempt; nor, lady, can we trust us Wholly to thy most pardonable failing, Sentiment; one will rot, the other rust us. Let us just listen to the spirit ailing :— ’Tis like a God in bliss, or like a damned soul wailing ! 2 1 This monastery is chosen because of its unpleasant proximity to C…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…you think just now. [ad sound of suppressed sobbing from the Chapel.) Ah! you may weep if you will—but what choice have you left me? And Lord! Lord! what could a loving heart ask more? [Stswbling on steps, and a muttering, ‘* Perdition catch the fool who invented these ctreular statrs.’| Ha! He seems a little uncertain of the stair. Hush! [Auter DENYS, who remains behind arrvas, ALAIN Szés, DENYS. [|Stambles and swears.) O these stairs! They go round and round, or seem to go round—faith! I have seen an entire castle do as much—and lead nowhere.…
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… evil ; with His rod He smiteth fair and foul, and with His sword Divideth tiniest atoms of intangible time, That men may know he is the Lord. Then, with that sharp division, Did He divide our wit sublime? Our knowledge bring to nought? We had no need of thought. We brought His malice in derision. So thine eternal petals shall enclose Me, O most wonderful lady of delight, Immaculate, indivisible circle of night, Inviolate, invulnerable Rose ! g. The sound of my own voice carries me on. I am as a ship whose anchors are all gone, Whose rudder is …
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…peless ; thou art but a shape, A blind, bad-blooded bat! Ugh! Ugh! The snake Wriggling to death amid his burning brake Is wiser, holier, lordlier. Open, page Of the old Rabbi | * tell me of the mage; Of him who would; of him who dared and did ; Of him who feared and failed; of him who. fell ; One peéring .lightwards through a coffin-lid, One aching heavenwards—and achieving hell! O let me do and die as they !_ The wand, The lamp, the sword, come eager to my nand ;— Or, if I wander now upon the moor, An old red-haited witch will come, for sure, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
…greasy wife and three gifted children—to be bank clerks after him ! Better be a flagellant, or one who dances as David danced before the Lord, than a bishop who is universally respected, even by the boys he used to baste when he was headmaster of a great English public school ! That is, if religion is your aim: if you are spiritually minded: if you interpret every phenomenon that is presented to your sen- sorium as a particular dealing of God with your soul. But if you come back from the celebration of the Eucharist and say, ‘‘ Mr. Hogwash was …
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
…assion With awful stress From the soul that hath mocked me, and turned his heart from my song’s excess. The ruler of Hell, The invisible Lord, Hath laughed at my spell, Hath slept at my word. He hath heard me well— Awake, O Sword ! Shall he flout a suppliant thus and no answer of favour accord? If mercy be sundered From splendour and power ; If he answer with thunder The plaint ofa flower ; Shall justice wonder If Furies devour So bitter a heart, set a term to his date that was aye but an hour? Avenge me, ye forces Of horror and wrath ! Clear t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…light pours forth in emerald waves?P What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges? -—Shrieking they fly, the King-Ghost and his slaves. Lord, let Thy Ghost indwell, And keep us from the power of Hell ! Amen. Kneel down, dear maiden o’ mine, and let your eyes Get knowledge with a soft and glad surprise ! Who would have thought you would have had it in you? Say nothing ! On the contrary, continue!
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…untless nightmares, to find himself in the end on the top of a precipice, whence falling, he shall find himself in bed. Hear wisdom! the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, A man is almost obliged to be in com- munion with God when God is blowing his hat off, drenching him to the skin, whistling through his very bones, scaring him almost to death with a flash of lightning, and so on. When he gets time to think, he thinks just that. In a church all is too clearly the work of man: in the matter of man’s comfort man’s devices are so obviously …