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19 I scent the prey. I sniff the air. The dawn of day Makes Maurya May The Goddess rare. The light of the stars Be hers : go, go, Ye silent folk, Harness your cars ! Brace the yoke ! It is time to Know. Ho! Ho! Desolate deeds ! She bleeds, she bleeds. The golden head Is drooped for aye. She is dead, she is dead. She is God, and I? I am might. I am power. I am light For an hour. I am strong, I grow. Ho! Ho! I taught Criosda The evil runes. _ Mine were the tunes His passion sang.
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
… its own calm joy. But—share me now your pain. Criospa. [Jn agony.| No! no! not that! Maurya. [Smiling.| The priest has secrets from the goddess ? CRIOSDA. [With a cry as of physical pain, deadly sharp.| Stop ! No jesting there. Maurya. I did not mean to jest. As brother to sister ? CRIOSDA. Ah! that hurts, that hurts. Maurya. lam heavy? CRrIOsDA. Heavy as my own heart’s fear.
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II Maurya. You fear? Am I in fault? Is Maurya maid The foe to Maurya goddess? CRIOSDA. Ah, indeed ! Maurya. Is not the work nigh ready? [Criospa grips his caduceus, which he has dropped, and presses it savagely to his breast. Then, with a mingled burst of Sevocity and joy, dashes Maurya aside to the ground, reaches his hand towards the empty throne, apostrophizing it, and cries with a strident laugh :| CRIOSDA. Ay, to-night ! [4 spasm overcomes him and he falls prone.] Maurya. Criosda! You areill, ill! Help! [He is silent; she unclasps the leop…
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…e of this house That left you guardian¢ CRrIOosDA. Yes, girl, that was strange. Maurya. Then, is the power that makes me in the end True Goddess Maurya, yours, yours only ? Crriospa. [Solemnly.| No ! Stop ! ask no more! There lies the awful crux. Blind are fate’s eyes, and pinioned are will’s wings. In you the whole chance lies. Maurya. In me? CRIOSDA. In you. Maurya. _ I will do all to win ! CRIOSDA. Do all? Maurya. Do all. Crrospa. Ah then! No, no, it is not yet enough. Not definite yet. Stop! fool, shall I hint and ruin all with a word? Back…
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…nill he, God must be God: it 1s a luckless fate for a girl’s dower, a thankless way for a maiden’s feet. Maurya. Why, then, am I not the Goddess Maurya?