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1912 · PDF PAGE 23

Household Gods

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 …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 13

Household Gods

…ng you can know! And by these terraces and steps that gleam Wintry, although the summer night is hot, This—what we seek is never what we find! 16

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1912 · PDF PAGE 12

Household Gods

…fear and doubt and jealousy Have risen, and now your love is trembling Like a mountebank dissembling When his trick's detected. Come! To find home we must leave home. 5

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1912 · PDF PAGE 14

Household Gods

Life is a dream, like love; and from the dream If we may wake, we never find it what ‘We would; for the wisdom ofa mightier mind Leads us in its own ways To a perfected praise. Crassus. ‘Why are these shadows thrown across the lawn From the elms and yews? They were not wont to reach Beyond the branches of that copper-beech. Aucta. Attend the dawn Of an unknown comet, that shall come From the unfathomable weils of space Into its halidom, Crassus. I know it not. Last night I walked alone Here, and saw nothing. Autcta. I was not with yout There is…

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