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1904 · PDF PAGE 40

Why Jesus Wept

…Y. Ah, love, at moonrise ! MOLLY. At my door ! SIR PERCY. Hell belch Its monsters one by one to stop the way ! I would be there. ANGELA. Christ ! he shall not be there ! MOLLY. Farewell ! SIR PERCY. O fairest, fare thee well ! MOLLY. Farewell ! Angela draws nearer, yet remains concealed. SIR PERCY. O but the moon is laggard ! MOLLY. Hard it is !

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1904 · PDF PAGE 62

Why Jesus Wept

… girl ! ANGELA. I hate her. SIR PERCY. Buy yourself a pretty hat ! Forget my pretty speeches ! Flings his purse down. CARRUTHERS. O Lord Christ ! In one short day — he was a gentleman ! Sir Percival ! Would God I were dead too ! If he had lived — thank God he died ! Sir Percy, Lend me your pistol ; here’s a heart to hit ! Sir Percy descends, after taking farewell of Angela, and appears again on horse- back among his men. SIR PERCY. Arnold and Ritson, tend the wounded man ! To breakfast, gentlemen ! Looks up. Farewell ! ANGELA, waves her handker…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 38

Why Jesus Wept

…the bliss I have ached to obtain : — Ah ! it was pain ! MOLLY. Ay ! sir, but can you love me ? Me, poor girl ! SIR PERCY. Love you ? Ah, Christ ! I love you so ! Say you love me, love me ! Say so ! Again ! Again ! Aloud ! I must hear, or I shall die. MOLLY. I love you. Oh, you hurt me, you do indeed.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 63

Why Jesus Wept

WHY JESUS WEPT 49 ANGELA. Ah, were such nights thy gift, dear Christ, all maids Were well thy servants. This is past all speaking ! The utmost triumph of a life well spiced With victory — this beats all. Hortense ! Hortense ! Bring me the brandy — pour a double dram ! Here’s luck — ah, Satan, give me fifty such ! Drinks off the brandy. And now to bed again — to sleep, I am tired. She goes in. Introduction of new character. The figure of the Marquis of Glenstrae Demands the kind attention of the spot Of consciousness that readers shift away In a…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 9

Why Jesus Wept

D E D IC AT IO M IN IM A My dear Christ, A person, purporting to be a friend and disciple of yours, and calling himself John, reports you to have wept. His tes- timony is now considered by the best authorities to be of a very doubtful order. But if you did weep, this (vide infra) is why. Of if not, surely it would have made you weep, had it met your eye. Excuse the rhyme ! You ask me (on dit) to believe you. I shall be willing to do so—merely as a gentleman—till you betray the trust ; but at present nobody worthy of serious consideration can gi…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 16

Why Jesus Wept

…d, enticed ; Leaving me all alone to shame The cunning missionary game ; And, by bad critics topped and sliced, Put the ky-bosh on Jesus Christ. I sing a tale of modern life (Suited for reading to my wife) Of how Sir Percy Percivale Grew from a boy into a man ; Well ware of every metric plan A bard may dream, a rhymester scrawl, Avoiding with deliberate “ Damn ! ” (Ut supra) In Memoriam ; For such suggestion would suffice To turn your blood to smoke or ice, Dismissing with a hearty curse Eunuch psychology, pimp verse. Moreover, lest my metre mo…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 39

Why Jesus Wept

WHY JESUS WEPT 25 SIR PERCY. I love you, love you. Yes, you love me ! Love ! Christ ! Yes, oh ! I love you so, dear heart. MOLLY. Dear love, I love you. SIR PERCY. Ah, love, love, how I love you. This is the world ! Love ! Love ! I love you so, my darling. Oh my white golden heart of glory ! MOLLY. I love you, love you so. SIR PERCY. Ah, God ! I love you ! I shall faint with love. I love you so. (Angela, Lady Baird, is discovered behind the trees. She suffers the torments of hell.) ANGELA, While the duet continues. Ah ! if there were a devil to…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 13

Why Jesus Wept

…pt — all these have known me. Travel thou thus far, thou also ! Somewhat shall thou learn ! But otherwise ; gird on thine armour for thy Christ, o champion of the dying faith in a man dead ! Arm ! arm, and out ; for the young warrior of a new religion is upon thee ; and his number is the number of a man. אלהיסטהרהקרעולהי I. “ I promise Mr. Chesterton / A grand ap-pre-ci-a-ti-on / Of Brixton on Ascen- sion Day ”. The Sword of Song.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 85

Why Jesus Wept

…armed neutrality in the matter of Mr. Kelly’s actionI. In the midst a table with a loaf and a bottle : also, by their own account, Jesus Christ. Forms, varnished yellow, around it, them, and (I suppose) Him. On one of them is a blackboard with the notice in white paint : “ Those not in fellowship please sit behind this board.” Accepting this dread limitation are several miserable, well-dressed children with active minds, who, finding nothing to interest them in the proceedings, are pointing out to each other the obscene passages in the Bible ; …

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