Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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And now again Within that square of darkness, look! a light That feels its way with hesitating pulse, As we do, through the darkness that it drives To blacken into deeper night beyond. FIFE. In which could we follow that light's example, As might some English Bardolph with his nose, We might defy the sunset--Hark, a chain! ROS. And now a lamp, a lamp! And now the hand That carries it. FIFE. Oh, Lord! that dreadful chain! ROS. And now the bearer of the lamp; indeed As strange as any in Arabian tale, So giant-like, and terrible, and grand, Spite of the skin he's wrapt in. FIFE. Why, 'tis his own: Oh, 'tis some wild man of the woods; I've heard They build and carry torches-- |
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