The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX ARAB. Oh, but this flight without faith Is an eternal death. zuLu. Hate is a hell sharper and deadlier Than all the weapons of the torturer. [They regain the heap of rubdle. Juuian. Allis prepared. Seek then once more with me The traces of the fatal three ! [He finds the CHINAMAN. Here is the first of the villains. [Zo shrine] Speak What vengeance we shall wreak ! Jovian. Foulest phantom flowers of fear From his soul like serpents shoot! The voice from the shrine. Cut his throat from ear to ear! Tear his tongue out by the root! Throw the body in the dark A cable from high-water mark ! [This ts done, the body being thrown from the whart. The voice from the west. The trees are covered: the rain streams Upon the screes, and screams! The voice from below. The water kisses the ship’s keel! JOVIAN. Out with the steel! [He seizes the aARAB.] Here is the second ruffian: [Zo shrine] Say What price his deed must pay! JULIAN. Hear the tongue that was so glib Stammer, spit its crazy wrath! The voice from the shrine. Cut his breast from rib to rib! 68