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Crassus. ©, she’s unwary! ‘ALicra. Is your love forgotten? Crassus, All love is rotten, ALICIA. But your pure love for me you boasted of? Crassus, Ay, that was perfect love. Auicia, You love me then, not her? (Crassus. Indeed I do. Aucia, ‘Swear me the oath anew! Crassus. I swear to love you till the world shall end. 2
ALICIA. ‘Then, Crassus, I will always be your friend. Crassus. Ab, that is good! You do not mock me now! Auicia. Creep softly to the land. Kiss but my brow. My curls are wet. ... No, never touch me there! Crassus. Why? Have I not? ALICIA. ‘You have not. Crassus. Just my band. Auta. You disobey your mistress's command? The time is near when you shall see ‘The keyhole of my comedy! Crassus. Hal Ha! Hal ar
Crassus. Thou art as filthy a creature as she! Auicia. Fat fool! All your emotions vary with your— Crassus. What? Aurcta. ‘Your state of health. Crassus. Be off with you, foul — Aurcta. ‘Well? Crassus. I'll swim and stab them. The black mouth ofhell ‘Yawns for their murder. Autcta. Tl be at the death. Dive then; but softly. Scarcely draw your breath. 39
Crassus. am weary of Adela grown chaste and chill. Antcia. ‘The hunter fags; how heavy is the hill! But you are bound to Adela. Crassus. To yout Aurcta. But you have given me freedom. I will leave you. ‘Crassus. What have I done to grieve you? Aurcia. ‘You have been the solemn fool with fece awry ‘That I have gathered in my ecstasy. You ace only a vulgar primrose I have plucked. Crassus. At Ieast, she-devil, you have been well—treated. Aucta. O teagie farce—not even rimes completed! Nay, darling! no rebellion. When you know 32
Crassus. Ah! you tear my soul out with the trills. ‘Your fingers play like summer lightning on the shaft. It is like a storm on the mountains when it shrills; Like the angry sea when it booms. Hark! Aurcta. Some god laughed. Crassus. ‘Your mouth is like some god’s. It burns and blooms With fire unheard of, with unguessed perfumes. O let me kiss you! Aticia. So you stop my songt [She ceases the tune. Crassus. There is another song. Auicia. You do me wrong. For you love Adela! Crassus. By God, girl, not I love Alicia, Aurcia. Ah! you love her sol…
Crassus. You are a witch. I want your love; you give Only love's comedy. ALICIA. The way to live Is to find comedy and tragedy In everything. But if you cannot see Through to the Bacchanal spirit, this should suit. Here is the blacksmith hammeringa flute. Crassus. Oh love, love, kiss me! Aurcta. I will forge a ring Of bloom of blood-kisses upon your neck, Till it is like a garden of roses in late spring. Crassus. “Soft, and stung softly, fairer for a fleck.” Auicra. O marvellous nation! Vanity, dullness, slobber, and quotation! Crassus. Why do …
Crassus. Your laugh is shocking—why do you mock me, dear? Autcra. Because you will not guess my secret here. But—put your arms about my neck, and swear You love me, and will always keep them there. Then I might dare. Crassus. I swear it. O my sweet! Anica. Then take my kiss. Crassus. Your mouth is like a rose of fire. But what is this? I cannot bear it. Aurcra. Ail Uhu! Uhul It is my heart; this arrow strikes me through. Stir not one muscle for a moment. Death! You beast, you kill me with your urgent breath. Crassus. © how I love you! [He moves…
Crassus. Wonderful, wonderful woman! [She throws her head back, and laughs. Acta. Now, you think ‘You know my secret. I have given you drink, And you are wise. But hush! to all emotion Save this the pulse and swell of Ocean. For at the last with mouth and fingers wried All must proclaim the triumph of the tide. Crassus. An! still you mock me with your cruel laugh. Autcta. It is your foolish epitaph. Crassus. But this can be no mockery. Heave and sway And curl and thrust—these waves are not at play. Aurera. You feel the ocean breaking on the sho…
Crassus. ‘Yes! there is fear mixed with the fascination. It is the reverence that chastity, be sure! Gains fom the impure. Aurea. O virtuous nati It is the fear of the uninitiate Before the throne of Fate ‘The hicrophant. Crassus. Kiss me, however! Aurcra. Did J grant ‘This favour, all were lost. It is your truth To Adela that tempts my youth. [Henceforth Auicia shakes with silent laughter. Crassvs. What fite breasts you have! Auicra. Ay, maiden breasts! Would you betray my cath? Crassus. My will contests My wisaes.
but his eye swoons as his broad beak slips Within her luscious lips. O but—I cannot see—I long to die Alike for wonder—and for jealousy! Crassus. Vile, filthy whore! I'll catch you at it. ALICIA. Softt Sce how his feathers hold her soul aloft! Crassus. Beast! Have you brought me through the wood for this? Aurora, No wonder I must teach you how to kiss. Crassus. I'll clip his wings. Autcra. Sub pennis, penis! ’Slife! It’s not the wings of him that clip your wife. 38
Crassus, A boy! Then what am 1? Aucia. That is the key-word of the comedy. ‘You thought you had two vices at your need; But she had Jove and you had Ganymede. [They are struck dumb and still with amase- ‘ment. Axtcta claps her hands four times, Sweep through the air, bright blaze of eagle-wings! Crassus, sub pennis, penis! How he swings His bulk from yonder sightless poise, to bear Me back to the Dominion of the Where I shall bear the cup of Jupiter! Blind babes, love one another, no less true Because the gods have deigned to dwell with you! [T…
HOUSEHOLD GODS Tue Scene is af the hearth of Crassus, where is a Little bronze altar dedicated to the Lares and Penates, A pale flame rises from the burning sandal-wood, on which CRASSUS throws densoin and musk. He is standing in deep dejection. Crassus. MOKE without fire! No thrill of tongues licks up The offerings in the cup. Dead falls desire. Black smoke thou art, © altar-flame, that dost dismember, Devour the hearth, to leave no ember To warm this heart. I see her still— Adela dancing here Till dim gods did appear To work our will. "
… offering to Pan! Can you cut day from night by any endeavour? If so, both life and death were lost for ever. Come, the stream steepens. Crassus. This road leads to hell. Anicta. The way to heaven is shorter. Crassus. Who can tell? ALICIA. I have measured it. Crassus. You, girl? Aurcta. It is not hard. Crassvs. ‘What did you make the height of it? 33 c
…h, you coarse slave; we'll surprise ‘Your good wife in her mystic exercise, Quick, through the bramble! [They burst through upon ADELA. ‘Crassus. Now, you beast, I've got you! The curse of God, and plague of Naples, rot you! For this white brute—one slit! [2e cuts the throat of Tu SWAN mith his dagger. ADELA, Oh love betrayed! O my dead beauty! Faugh! deceitful maid. Not Crassus found me out. Had I the wings Of my dead love—oh lovel_— Aticta. Why, wondrous thingst ADELA. ‘These nails shall serve. A servant! Crassus. She shall be My wife, damned…
Crassus. Pan spoke. Autcra. Pan never speaks till man is dumb, And only then if he be like a child Silently curled within its mother's womb, Or feeding at her breast. There is a wild Way also—when his dumbness is of death, And there’s a first and second death. Remember To die so that no god's or ange!’s breath May quicken into life the wasted ember! Crassus. lam dead now. Auta. But I must raise you up. The night grows darker; all Pan's light is gone, And you and I are pledged to sup Upon a secret. Crassus. All your secret shone. [She laughs aga…
…am; I crept Where the waters wept— The floss in the foss Gurgling across ‘The bosses of moss, Like a dryad’s nipple In the mouth of Pant Crassus. O pearl of the house! you came to the end? Atrcra. The dusk of the slave, the dawn of a friend? Crassus. Freedom is thine for the skill and the will. Auicia. The skil! is mine—but the will lies still, Still as the earth that dare not stir Till the kiss of the sun awaken her! Crassus. Yet at these secrets and riddles? Behold! I can fill thy lap with a harvest of gold. Aurea. Yet all the gold you could …
Crassus. Starless and moonless, hidden in cloud, The night's one flame of pearl. Axrcia. The bat flaps; the owl hoots aloud. Crassus. Lead on; I trust you, girl. Atrcia. You are bold to trust me; of, have you divined ‘My secret? Crassus. No; the erystal of your mind Shows only faint disturbing images, Things passing strange, as if enchanted seas Kept their great swell upon it, and strange fish Played in its oily depths. Some monstrous wish, ‘The shadow of some unspeakable desire, Strikes my heart cold, and sets my brain on fire. Aurcra. Learn t…
Or mote in the sunbeam is to that sun’s self, And we are like dead leaves in autumn’s whirl Of wind upon it. Crassus. Mystify me, girl! It is the right of an elf. Surely your flickering fire Will draw me to some mire! Aucta. Here the stream dips its mouth into the wood. So does youth’s calm and chaste beatitude Touch the black mouth of Love, the ancient whore. Crassus. Girl! what a scorpion leaping from your lips! Auta. My mouth stings as no scorpion ever stang. In this round impudent smiling face of mine There is a poison fiercer than all wine…
…pleasure Of rose and vine I thrust my treasure, The cone of the pine. Irru’s maid ‘Was easily sated, For she was afraid When Irru mated! Crassus. Ha! Hal Hal Ha! Ha! Ha! Auta. ‘You would not laugh Were you the maid! Crassus, How could I be? 35
Crassus. I fear him. Anica. Go and Ile there, at his feet. Lie supine! Lie on that moss-covered root, While I draw forth the flute And make a marvellous music. [She ceases laughing and begins to play. Crassus. O I writhe Beneath the force oflips, of fingers lithe ‘That touch the delicate stops so delicately. Auicia. Hush! T have drawn the bird from the bush. Pan will appear anon. CRassy An! Abt... Ahl Ahl Arca. This music moves you. Now I'll play a tune That would make mad the melancholy moon. This. a2