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19 I scent the prey. I sniff the air. The dawn of day Makes Maurya May The Goddess rare. The light of the stars Be hers : go, go, Ye silent folk, Harness your cars ! Brace the yoke ! It is time to Know. Ho! Ho! Desolate deeds ! She bleeds, she bleeds. The golden head Is drooped for aye. She is dead, she is dead. She is God, and I? I am might. I am power. I am light For an hour. I am strong, I grow. Ho! Ho! I taught Criosda The evil runes. _ Mine were the tunes His passion sang.
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…st : the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [ Raises giass.| the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of cares how heavy ! Drink ! The peace of the Priest ! [He drinks up the liquor.| Be thou my light ! Uncloud the misty channels of the mind! Off, horror ! Off, compassion ! Be the brain The almighty engine of the Will—and those Subtler and deeper forces grimly guessed, Terribly proven—be they strong thereby ! Awake, O sleeping serpent of the soul, Unhinted skills, and unimagined powers, And…
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…elf with effort.| Ill I must be. Ha! {Goes to altar, opens it, takes out a flask filled with a clear pale blue liquor with rosy stars of light in tt, pours it into a long vial, and holds it to the light. The room is lighted by electricity, the globes being the eyes of strange sculptured stone beasts on the walls.] So far the story is true. [Drinks a little.] Why, that 1s better already. I am again the priest of Maurya—who is the brother of Maurya? A trivial ape
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… a fool. He has lost ! He 1s lost ! Take the staff ! Trace the rule Of the circle crossed ! [She makes a circle and a cross therein.| No light therein ! Mother of sin, Thou hast won ! Death to the sun ! Hail to the glow Of the corpse decayed ! Hail to the maid ! Ho! Ho! [She rambles about the stage, muttering savage runes with dismal laughter. Her words are inarticulate, when with a last Ho! Ho! the curtain falls.| [The scene rises, and we again see the stage as in Scene I. Maurya and Criospa as in the opening. Criospa is, however, absolutely c…
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…t were to answer this. Maurya. Ah, then, forbear ! [Crrospa és silent] How shall I know the word? Criospa. Good luck may bring it to the light. Maurya. Il luck ? Criospa. A year’s delay. Maurya. Ah, let me gain one gift Whose sweet reversion hangs above me now : To order luck ! Criospa. Skill orders luck ! Maurya. The draught ! Crrospa. Hither, O Maurya ! Maurya. I will come to thee.
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…e and tall, Beautiful, make a beautiful murmur, move, In infinite musical labyrinths about. Them doth the soul of love inhabit, them The light of wisdom doth inform, them peace Hath marked and sealed her own. But on their lips e