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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 131
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THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY.
Of one’s soul the grisly ape !
Get ye forth to Aggereth
Riding in her golden car
Yoked to ox and ass that prance
In their evil Hinnom-dance !
I am writhing with my death
Born of the infernal Star.
ALEXANDER
Nay, our lady, we are come
To thy worship — high and holy ;
From our heaven-wide halidom
To the manger dark and lowly
We have brought taraxacum,
Mandrake, amrit, myrrh and moly ;
Many a royal gift of gree
From the land of Danae,
From the coral-breeding sea,
From the steppes of Tartary !
GOVINDA
I have brought a treasure-chest
Full of gold, red gold galore,
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