PART IV
Darkness
AQUARIUS. In truth, master, the ceremony cannot proceed.
There is no god in the shrine.
MAGISTER TEMPLI. Brother Aquarius, let search be made.
AQUARIUS. Brother Capricornus, let search be made.
[Light on.
[CAPRICORNUS enters veil and walks πῤand down.
He
returns.]
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Brother Capricornus, what do you find ?
CAPRICORNUS. Master, there is nothing but a little pile of
dust.
AQUARIUS. There is no living thing therein?
CAPRICORNUS. There is no living thing therein.
MAGISTER TEMPLI. [Reni/e: poem: “ Collogue sen/z'men/al."]
In the ancient frozen solitary park
Two figures passed anon—now mark
!
Their eyes are dead, their lips are soft and grey;
One scarce can hear the words they say.
In the ancient frozen solitary park
Two ghosts evoke the past—oh hark l
“Dost thou remember our old ecstasy? "
“Why do you wish to remind me?"
"Does thy heart beat still at my name, and glow ?
" Seest than my soul in dreams, dear?” “ No."
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