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Is one imagined silence like a sigh.
Unanimous the hushéd harmony
Flows forth from heart to mouth; and mouths bloom
red
With ripe and royal repetition ; kisses
Flow like thick honey-drops in honey-suckle.
That is their worship.
Rupua. Whom then worship they?
Criospa. Maurya !
[ Recalled to himself, he perceives the meaning a,
this; with a great cry breaks forward and
stands before the throne, raises himself up
and says in triumph and knowledge 0)
peace :|
Then—I have lived !
[Reaches out his hand towards the enthroned
mummy.|
Maurya! —
[With the last terrible cry he collapses, and falls
' dead with his head on Maurya’s knees.|
Rupna. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever
shall be : world without end.
[She deliberately breaks her staff in her hands.
The report is sharp and very loud, like a
pistol shot.|
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