The World’s Tragedy

IV THE BLACK BEAN SCENE — A small Syrian mud hut. On a truckle bed strewn with dirty straw lie a naked man and woman. MAGDA Give me more money, Baa-Baa, for a kiss ; One of my kisses. ISSA Youdesh has the bag. (A pause.) Also I weary of thy sordidness. Love is at bottom a most noisome hag. Mother and brothers ! all the pageant passes Like a loud caravan of braying asses ; And now I — love thee ! in this hole of hell. A rotting camel by a dried-up well !