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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 189
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THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY.
PUBLIUS
Death was duty’s one divorcement.
AGRIPPA
Pooh ! The stern old Roman ! Fudge !
Even Horatio would budge.
Kill that Jew, men !
A SOLDIER
Heard and done.
ISSA
It is finished !
PUBLIUS
Ill begun
When the Roman virtue sleeps !
AGRIPPA
Death, man ! See the tide that sweeps
From his side, a pinkish flood
Of foaming water mixed with blood.
It swells; it washes all the hill —
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