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ACTUS PRIMUS 87 JASON. Where is the son of ‘Tyro and Poseidon? MEN. Iolchus’ King has here a dwelling-place. WOMEN. See you the sword shake—and the iron hand Not shaking? The man’s mood is full of wrath. MEN. Peace, foolish! Were it so, we would not see. WOMEN. Ay me! this stranger seems most ominous. JASON, Where is the son of Tyro and Poseidon? MEN. This is the Palace-place of Pelias, Son of Poseidon, of Iolchus King. JASON. Iolchus’ King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great A…
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…ild; the wind is calm ; But on my ear the voices fall Distant, and irk me, and appal. Two men have sworn the solemn oath : ‘‘God and the king this dog blasphemed,” Two judges, just, though little loth, Weigh, answer. As on one who dreamed Comes waking—in my soul there groaned : ‘* Carry forth Naboth to be stoned !”’ Nine days! And still the king is sad, And hides his face, and is not seen. The tenth ! the king is gaily clad ; The king will banquet with the queen ; And, ere the west be waste of sun, Enjoy the vineyard he hath won. All this I hea…
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…r bulk to heaven; and nosnows Tinge evening with rose. No blaze of noon invades those rocks of night, Nor moon’s benignant might. And looking downward he beheld his folk Bound in no tyrant’s yoke ; Knowing no God, nor fearing any man ; Life’s enviable span Free from disease and vice, sorrow and age. Only death’s joys assuage A gathering gladness at the thought of sleep. Never in all the archives, scroll on scroll, Reaching from aeons wrote they ‘‘ Women weep, Men hate, the children suffer.” In the place Where men most walked a tablet of fine br…
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…op faint, Ivory and silver bow and beam, Dim-figured with the images Divinely quaint Of gold engraved, forth shadowing sorceries. So the king dreamed of love: and passing on The shape moved quicker, winnowing with faint fans The soundlessair of thought : the noonday sun Seemed to the mightiest of a thousand khans Like to a man’s Brief life—a thousand such dream spans !— And so he dreamed of life: and failing _ plumes Wrought through ancestral looms In the man’s brain: and so he dreamed of death. And slower still the grey God wrought Dividing co…
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… Yet act not. ARGUS. Hero, stay that heavy hand! The ship shall sail ere spring. THESEUS. But now you talk More as befits a.workman to a king. 1 The satire is on Matthew xxiv. 36. JASON. Be gentle now, my friends! builders, Reared in the rugged borders of the North,} Have northern manners ; surly if attacked, But genial when—— These ship- ARGUS. The proper treatment is Kindness—like lions whom Demeter tamed. THESEUS. I promise thee, the next time thou art wroth, A second kindness from Alcides’ hand. ARGUS. Spare me that, King, and take, thyself…
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126 AHAB What mighty weakness stays the king If he arise, and cast desire Far from its seat and seed and spring To Hinnom the detested fire? Ay! both were wise. Madness alone Sits throned on the king’s vacant throne. Dogs! Who dares break on me? ‘‘ Dread lord ! Mightiest of monarchs !”—‘‘ Cease, thou crow ! Thine errand ! ere the eunuch’s sword Snatch thy bald head off at a blow.” “* Mercy, World’s Light !” Swings clear and clean The call ‘‘ Room for the Queen! The Queen !” Strong as a man, the Queen strides in. Even she shrank frighted !—my as…
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…RGONAUTAE. ACTUS PRIMUS. JASON. PELIAS, JASON. Semz-chorus of Lolchian Men. Sewmz-chorus of Lolchian Women. SCENE: The Throne-chamber of KING PELIAS. SEMI-CHORUS OF MEN. THE prophecies are spoken in vain, The auguries vainly cast, Since twenty years of joyous reign In peace are overpast ; And those who cursed our King’s desires Are branded in the brow for liars. SEMI-CHORUS OF WOMEN. We heard the aged prophet speak The doom of woe and fear. We wait with blanched and icy cheek The one-and-twentieth year : For Justice lies, as seeds lie, dead, Bu…
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…esty of light Shed from the splendour of our Queen Athena! mystery and might ; These worked invisibly to bring The end of triumph to our King. Great Jason, wronged by hate of man, Shall pass the portals of the deep ; Shall seek the waters wide and wan; Shall pass within the land of sleep ; And there the guardians of the soil Shall rest at last from pain and toil. O ruler of the empyréan, Behold his fervour conquering The fury of the breed Cadmean, The dragons of the Theban king; And armed men shall spring from earth In vain to ward the gloomy g…
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ACTUS QUARTUS 105 MEDEA. But this is like That Indian fable! of a king: how he, Taking some woman—an indecent act Not proper to be done !—against the will Of priests or princes, sought the nuptial bed And ‘¢ Climbed the bed’s disastrous side, He found a serpent, not a bride ; And scarcely daring to draw breath, He passed the dumb night-hours with death, Till in the morning cold and gray The hooded fear glided away. Which morning saw ten thousand pay The price of jesting with a king !’— JASON. Indeed these toils and dangerous pursuits, Labours a…
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…slave in story dared Thus to beard openly his lord? My chariot men leapt forth and flared Against him with indignant sword. Why wait for king’s word to expunge Life so detested with one lunge? “Cease!” My strong word flamed out. The men Shook with dead fear. caught With savage instinct, brutal ken, At what should be my crueller thought : Torture! And trembled lest their haste Had let a dear life run to waste. They jumped and They argued after their brute kind. I have two prides ; in justice, one: In mercy, one: ‘‘ No ill I find In this just man…
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ANIMA LUNAE Al Before she knows that love: so mused the king ; ‘‘T am not weary of the soul of spring,” He said, ‘‘none happier in this causeless chain Of life that bears no fruit of pain, No seed of sorrow,” yet his heart was stirred, And, wasting no weak word On the invulnerable air, that had No soul of memories sad, He passed through all the palace: in his bowers He stooped and kissed the flowers ; And in his hall of audience stayed awhile, And with a glad strange smile Bade a farewell to all those lords of his; And greeted with a kiss The v…
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…forward ABSYRTUS.] I know a better way than that, my lord. This boy shall come with us. JASON. Ah, not to Greece ! Aea needs to-morrow’s king. MEDEA. “With us” I said. ‘* To Greece ’—I said not. CHORUS. What is this? Thou hintest at some dangerous destiny. MEDEA. Come love, to the long years of love with me ! JASON. Form, heroes, and in solemn order stride; The body-guardians of the Golden Fleece ! MEDEA. Guarding your king and queen on every side— CHORUS. We sail triumphant to the land of Greece. MEDEA, A woman’s love, a woman’s power be told …
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ACTUS QUINTUS 113 How shall I come? _ Shrieking and yelling? Or quiet and dumb To the heart of the dwelling? Silently striding, Whispering terror Into their ears; Watching, abiding, Madness and error, Brooder of fears ! Thus will I bring Black Ares to honour, Draw the black sting Of the serpent upon her ! How foolish to fight With the warrior God Who brings victory bright Or defeat with a nod, Who standeth to smite With a spear and a rod! Here is the woman, Thinking no evil, Wielding the human By might of a devil ! But I will mock her With cunn…
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…ings are but the shadows of himself! AEETES. I cannot give you hope. Await the end. CHORUS. We fear indeed that in the trap Of wiles our king is taken. Lachesis shakes a careless lap And dooms divine awaken ! A desolate and cruel hap In this sad hour is shaken. The desperate son and violent Of Helios hath designed A fate more hard than Pelias meant, Revolving in his mind Mischief to catch the coiled ascent Of groaning humankind. O bright Athena, hitherto Protectress of the quest, Divide the deep descending blue ! Be present, ever-blest ! Bring …
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…and also ‘‘She who buildeth towns.” PELIAS. Think also, I am born of deity. I am inured to majesty; I know How venerable is the sight of kings, And how the serpent Treason writhes beneath The royal foot, conscious of its own shame, And how the lion of Rebellion cowers Before the presence of a king unarmed, Quelled by one mild glance of authority. JASON. A king unjust is shorn of majesty. PELIAS. Still the one fool’s word—justice—answers all. Would thou wert older and more politic ! JASON, Would I were brand! The gods are weary of thy cozening. …
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…my day, Steals love and laughter from my youth, Will dye my beard in early grey. **Go forth to war! Shall Judah still Set mockery to thy kingly will?” May be. I often feel a ghost Creeping like darkness through my brain ; Sensed like uncertainty at most, Nowise akin to fear or pain. Yet it is there. To yield to such And brood, will not avail me much. Ho! harness me my chariot straight, My white-maned horses fleet and strong ! Call forth the trumpeters of state| Proclaim to all Samaria’s throng: The King rides forth! Hence, slaves! Away | Haste …
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…ers where the moonlight stood Upon the sleepy flood | In certain bough-wrought shapes of mystic meaning, As if the moon were weaning The king her babe from milk of life and love To milk new-dropped above From her sweet breast in vaporous light Into the willowy night That lay upon the river. So the king Heard a strange chant—the woods began to sing ; The river took the tune; the willows kept Time; and the black skies wept Those tears, those blossoms, those pear] drops of milk That the moon shed: and looking up he saw As if the willows were but r…
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…EISTER CROWLEY.* Ir isa lamentable circumstance that so many colossal brains (W. H. Mallock, &c.) have been hitherto thrown away in attacking what is after alla problem of mere academic interest, the authorship of the plays our fathers accepted as those of Shakespeare. Ta me it seems of immediate and vital importance to do for Shakespeare what Verrall has done so ably for Euripides. The third tabernacle must be filled ; Shaw and ‘‘ the Human" must have their Superhuman companion. (This is not a scale: pithecanthropoid innuendo is to deprecated.…
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…who prate of duty thus, see you show it to him unto whom you owe it.” That this advice is wasted is clear from Act V. Sc. ili, where the King of France takes the first trivial opportunity* to be free of the vile creature he had so foolishly married. Cordelia goes, and the sisters talk together. Theirs is the language of quiet sorrow for an old man’s failing mind; yet a most righteous determination not to allow the happiness of the English people to depend upon his whims. Bad women would have rejoiced in the banish- ment of Kent, whom they alrea…
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…ood indic. tense imperf. pers. 3rd. 14 From French sevére; from Lat. severus- a-um; from Greek gaupos, a crocodile; from Sanskrit Sar, a king. Cf Persian Sar, a king; also W. African and Kentucky, ‘‘ sar,” master; Lat. Caesar, Germ. Kaiser, Russ. Tsar. Cf. Sanskrit Siva, the destroyer, or severe one. 262