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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 137
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THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY.
GOVINDA
I have a gipsy girl
Skilled in the mystic art.
She knows the trick to curl
Dried leaves in fire, and augur thence.
I bought her in the mart
From an old Greek — a vile old man !
He told me she was a Bohemian ;
And by a fabulous conjuring with cards
Indeed she can divine.
CHAU
So can our bards.
These girls are shifty.
GOVINDA
Maybe so ; but list !
(I pray you) She can take an amethyst
And see a thousand visions.
CHAU
So can I
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