1903 · PDF PAGE 7
The God-Eater
…d in an ancient Scottish Hall, very remote. The time is the One-and-Twentieth Century after Christ. The action of the play occupies many years.
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The God-Eater
…l wager, are indifferent. True, the news has not reached them : true, that star I see is not a star; it was so six, ten, twenty thousand years ago— logical, I say !—and I will drink, for parenthetical is a poor substitute— [Drinks.] Why, how thou fir’st me! with that icy fire Of adamant thought. It well befits this hour If I recoil the chain whose last smooth link Slides o’er Time’s cogwheel. In the beginning then The vastness of the heavens and the earth Created the idea of God. So Levi once Sarcastic in apostasy ; @ rebourse. So Miller, mytho…
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1903 · PDF PAGE 26
The God-Eater
24 ACT II FORTY YEARS AFTERWARDS [The scene is an open and stormy sea. RuPua, with her staff, wave-riding in a cockle-shell,| RupnHa. Ha! Ha! In the storm I ride. The winds bear me. The waves fear me. I appal ; 1 inform Their pride. Let him hither, Drifting ever Wrecked and lost ! His life shall wither. The dirk shall sever His rune ill-crossed. I hear him come Across the foam With a bang and a boom. The winds, hum, hum. The billows comb. Ho! Ho! the doom! Ho! Ho! I have won. I shall win.
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1903 · PDF PAGE 31
The God-Eater
…ere 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 ! Criospa. All is illusion? RupuHa. All. Murder a mode And love a mode …
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1903 · PDF PAGE 33
The God-Eater
… the robe of time Shall glitter in thine eyes : for the hour strikes. Criospa. Mother! I would see the Luck of Maurya stand Two thousand years from now. Rupua. Good priest, bring forth The globe of crystal. ist PRIEST. Hearing is enough. [The priest takes a crystal from out the altar, and places it thereupon. Rupua and Criospa advance.| Rupua. Look! I uplift the veil. [She unveils the crystal.| Criospa. I see a lofty pyramid sun-white Blaze in immaculate glory to the stars ; Its splendour of itself, since all is dark About, above. Thereon a cou…
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