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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 161
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THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY.
ISSA
Take note of it :
Matter is muck !
JOHN
True wisdom and true wit !
The upshot, Lord ?
ISSA
Than living, I would rather
Play the fool’s game of my unnatural Father.
JOHN
Thy father, Lord ? Thy pardon, but we heard —
ISSA
No odds — all genealogy’s absurd.
JOHN
Suppose, Lord, I should simply call Thee “ Word ” ?
ISSA
Happy the thought ! But, in thy secret ear,
There was a scheme — thou mark’st me ?
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