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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 160
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THE BLUE DWARF.
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JOHN
The upshot ?
ISSA
I am sick of everything.
JOHN
Of me, Lord ?
ISSA
Thou the least, sweet queen and king.
But — finally — in sooth, lad — even of thee.
JOHN
Lord, have I failed in love ?
ISSA
Failure must be.
Not by thy fault, but fixed in every feature
Of Mistress Smirking Whore, our Mother Nature,
Whose filthy dugs our poisoned kisses suck.
Pah ! the whole world is just a mass of muck.
JOHN
Wait, master ! that’s a Phrase.
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