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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 165
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II2
THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY.
Adonis, Attis, Mithras, and the rest ;
And if there lack some detail —
ISSA
Thou art wise
Enough to write in all the prophecies
Fulfilled. That’s settled, then.
JOHN
I’d love to see
The goggling eyes of duped posterity,
Its mouth agape (while priests scoop out its poke)
At the wild sequel of our harmless joke.
ISSA
Only one further fret balls up my brain :
— The nuisance, if I have to rise again.
JOHN
Fear not ! The style suffices.
ISSA
Then be off,
And tell the Seventy my bitter scoff
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