Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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page 64 of 141 (45%)
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GUENDOLEN.
Art thou nor man nor woman? CAMBER. Nay--I trust - Man. GUENDOLEN. And hast heart to make thy spoil of me? CAMBER. Would God I might! GUENDOLEN. Thou art made of lies and lust - Earth's worst is all too good for such to see, And yet thine eyes turn heavenward--as they must, Being man's--if man be such as thou--and soil The light they see. Thou hast made of me thy spoil, Thy scorn, thy profit--yea, my whole soul's plunder Is all thy trophy, thy triumphal prize And harvest reaped of thee; nay, trampled under And rooted up and scattered. Yet the skies That see thy trophies reared are full of thunder, And heaven's high justice loves not lust and lies. |
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