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All last night I had quiet
In a fragrant dream and warm:
She became my Sabbath,
And round my neck, her arm.

I knew the warmth in my dreaming;
The fragrance, I suppose,
Was her hair about me,...

PRELUDE


Night on bleak downs; a high grass-grown trench runs
athwart the slope. The earthwork is manned by
warriors clad in hides. Two warriors, BRYS and
GAST, talking.

Gast....

MARY

[A LEGEND OF THE FORTY-FIVE]


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A street in Carlisle leading to the Scottish Gate. Three girls, MARY, KATRINA, and JEAN.

Katrina.
What a year this has been!
...

JUDITH


I

THE BESIEGED CITY OF BETHULIA

JUDITH (at the window of an upper room of her house).

This pitiable city! - But, O God,
Strengthen me that I bend not into scorn...

What shall we do for Love these days?
How shall we make an altar-blaze
To smite the horny eyes of men
With the renown of our Heaven,
And to the unbelievers prove
Our service to our dear god, Love?...

We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee,
As th'u, L've, were the d'ep th'ught
And we the speech of the thought; yea, spoken are we,
Thy fires of thought out-spoken:
...