The Lamp and the Bell by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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page 44 of 103 (42%)
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Sweetly live together.
[Enter Viola, Lilina, Lela, Arianna and Claudia, laden with garlands, flowering boughs and baskets of flowers. They met Anselmo coming from another direction, also bearing flowers.] VIO. How beautiful, Anselmo! Where did you find them? ANS. Close by the brook. LIL. You gathered all there were? ANS. Not by one hundredth part. LEL. Nay, is it true? We must have more of them! ARI. And are they fragrant As well? ANS. Ay, by my heart, they are so sweet I near to fainted climbing the bank with them. [The ladies cluster about Anselmo and smell the flowers.] LIL. Oh! VIO. Ah! CLA. How drowsily sweet! |
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