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14 Criospa. Yes! yes! of course, but only by my making. Maurya. Was not my birth miraculous ? and strange The death of the old people 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? Maury…
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CRIOSDA. Hart! Ham! Har! [Maurya, startled, looks up and half rises. Then sits again, with a strange sweet smile of innocence and tenderness.]| Criospa [ Lower.] The world is borne upon thy breast Even as the rose. Wilt thou not lull it into rest, Some strong repose More satisfying than pale sleep ; Than death more long, more deep? Hail! at the twilight as at dawn ! The sunset close Even on the lake as on the lawn ! The red ray glows Across the woven stardrift’s ways In mystery of Maurya’s praise. Hear me, thy priest, at eventide ! These subtle…
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…ospa lifts it up and offers it reverently.| Maurya. Methinks anticipation o’ the event Shoots in my veins, darting delight. Why, this is strange ! I am losing myself. Criosda ! The walls of the world fall back with a crash. Where is all this? Iam out of myself: I expand. O Maurya, where art thou, little phantom of myriads of agesago? What a memory! Ah, Ah! She is falling. [Maurya staggers. Criospa, who has been watching her narrowly, catches her and lays her tenderly on the altar.| Oh, what happiness, what happiness! Criosda, dear brother, how …
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29 I am indifferent to my fate as the stars Are to my curses, were I fool enough To curse. Rupua. Destiny has strange ways. CrriospDA. I care not. Rupua. How long hast thou left home ? CRIOsDA. Seven years. RupHa. Return ! CRIOsDA. How can I? Rupua. Stamp the boat beneath thy feet Down wallowing in the trough ! CRIOSDA. It is done ! [The boat sinks from under Criospa. He would sink did he not grasp the staff extended to him.| Rupua. Now, stand alone ! CRIOSDA, I stand. RupuHa. Then break, O vision Of sea ; awake, O vision of the shrine ! Criosp…
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… And will to-morrow show me aught? [He extinguishes the lamps, goes to the door and opens it, The clang startles him.| I hate that door! Strange that the outer air Should bring back manhood! Man, thou pitiest her ! Man, thou art whelmed in that red tide of lust That rolls over strong loathing by vast will, Hideous rapture of death. That’s for thee, man ! Thine are the scalding tears of sympathy, The tender love for the young flower. And these Are none of the priest’s. Enough ! [Exit. The door clangs again. The curtain falls; a scene drops. WRup…
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…ay he was dead—murdered, murdered! Oh, how horrible !—what a horrible place this is with all its beauty and love! and my worship—oh, how strange it all is. Criosda! come !
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…s of light in tt, pours it into a long vial, and holds it to the light. The room is lighted by electricity, the globes being the eyes of strange sculptured stone beasts on the walls.] So far the story is true. [Drinks a little.] Why, that 1s better already. I am again the priest of Maurya—who is the brother of Maurya? A trivial ape