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THE GARDEN OF EROS. 25 THE VULTURE It’s settled then, Charmingly unanimously Carried by a show of wings. THE LAMB I protest. THE VULTURE You did not vote. THE LAMB If I had a pair of wings — THE DOVE You might fly ; and so might pigs ! THE VULTURE Pray, sir, do not mention pigs ! Gru — utch ! Scheme approved, and entered in The Minutes. I declare the board Quite indefinitely adjourned.
26 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. THE LAMB I oppose ; I wish to enter A minority report. THE VULTURE You are out of order, sir. THE LAMB I shall get my own back later In the Theatres of London Where a show of legs decides. THE DOVE By the way — THE VULTURE These sleeping women Are no good to us, of course ? THE DOVE No indeed ! I want a creature Very different to that, THE VULTURE Well, you’ll have a job to find one.
22 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. I have magnificent And sublime and noble scheme. Listen ! I will find a woman — THE VULTURE Oh ! you dirty-minded rascal ! THE DOVE Wait a moment — I will do it. Find a virgin — if I can, And on her beget this lambkin In the image of a man. THE VULTURE That seems complicated, pigeon. We’ve the lamb begotten here. THE DOVE Yes, I know ; it seems absurd ; But in practice I am certain It will work out splendidly. THE VULTURE Well, proceed !
THE GARDEN OF EROS. 27 THE DOVE Would you lend me your red star ? THE VULTURE With the greatest pleasure, pigeon ! THE DOVE I’ll be off, then. THE LAMB So will I. THE VULTURE I shall know where I can find you. THE LAMB Would you had a moment’s patience ! I had a much better scheme — One involving pigeon-pie ! THE VULTURE Butch ! be off with you. I’ll hop Up again to the tree-top. Yaugh Waugh ! That’s me ! Always at the top of the tree ! (They depart separately, yet together. The old Philosopher wakes).
…olden charioteer, I creep Into thine arms, and dream the dream of sleep. He sleeps. Upon the still beauty descends from his tree the man-vulture. THE VULTURE Yaugh Waugh ! Butch ! this is terrible That all these people should be happy — Pss ! — Without a thought of Me ! Ga ! Ga ! the plague Rot them in hell ! Cramp ! Ague ! Pox ! Gout ! Stone — Hoo ! What shall I do to stop it ? It’s sin — sin — sin. I hate them. Oog ! I want them to go groaning Over imaginary ills With white eyes twisted up to Me, Where I sit and croak And snarl ! Ugh ! Faugh …
…most rigour Of the majesty of law. THE LAMB And if any fool believes it — THE DOVE He shall come to live with Us. What a privilege ! THE VULTURE Provided He observe propriety, Never laugh, never dance, Never do the dreadful thing ! THE DOVE Precisely so !
… ; I’m accustomed to ’ proceeding’. Let the lamb grow up to manhood. Then we’ll have him whipped and tortured And eventually killed. THE VULTURE That sounds lovely. THE LAMB Do you think so ? I record my vote against it. THE DOVE Stupid ! in a day or so We will have you rise again. THE LAMB Really ! I may be a dullard ; But I cannot see the point Of this most elaborate nonsense.
…US Fauns ERINNA Girls OLYMPAS EVADNE HERACLEITUS a Philosopher. ANTINOUS } CHRYSIPPUS, his disciple. GITON Young boys YAUGH WAUGH. A man vulture. HYLAS A lambkin. A dove. THE PERSONS OF THE TRAGEDY ALEXANDER, a wise king, ruling An ox. Macedon, Babylonia, etc. ZAKARIAH, an ass. TWO SATYRs. GOVINDA, king of the Indies. A fair man child. CHAU, SON of HEAVEN, king of Tar- TWO NYMPHS. tary and China. MIRIAM a Syrian Girl. A company of rats. A white-robed youth. A company of toads. Legions of apes, worms and monsters. A brass bottle containing a Man…
…s standing, and a full nightingale song trills from her ivory throst. Upon a tall tree of massy foliage sits, hidden from the players, a vulture vast and vague in his black night of shadow. His face is human, of the ovine type, as that of a low-class Jew. He watches the scene throughout in silence, but with intense envy disguised as disgust. DORIS Praise the wine wittily ! Praise the wine well ! Footing it prettily Down through the dell.