y
Had never better title to its truth.

[_Kisses her hand and goes._

_Amaury._ Yolanda!... He?... This reverence as to
An angel? Speak!

_Yolanda._ Amaury----

_Amaury._ O pause not!

_Yolanda._ Then--to save her who's dead--from death and shame,
I took her place within the Paphian's arms.

_Amaury._ O! ... and by me, driven by me, bore this?

[_Overcome._

Pure as the rills of Paradise, endured?

_Yolanda._ For you!--and her who sleeps forgiven there,

[_Raptly._

Now while her spirit weightless overwingeth
Night, to that Throne whose seeing heals all shame!
For her I did! but oh, for you, whose least
Murmur to me is infinite with Spring,
Whose smile is light, filling the air with dawn,
Whose touch, wafture of immortality
Unto my weariness; and whose eyes, now,
Are as the beams God lifted first, they tell us,
Over the uncreated,
In the far singing mother-dawn of the world!--
Come with me then, but tearless, to her side.

[_They go to the bier and stand as in a dream. A
pause, then her lips move, last, as if
inspired._

While there is sin to sway the soul and sink it,
Pity should be as strong as love or death!

[_With a cry of joy he enfolds her, and they kneel,
wrapped about with the clear moon._

THE END

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Transcriber's Notes:

Minor typesetting inconsistencies of italics and smallcap words
and punctuation have been corrected without comment.

All stage directions have been uniformly formatted to a left
uniform indent instead of a right page margin.

Spelling corrections:

Page 3, "aamask" to "damask" (hung with heavy damask).
Page 110, "violenc" to "violence" (she your cold violence).
Page 112, "Caramin" to "Camarin" (84) (_as_ CAMARIN _takes_).

Word Variations:

"Aeih" (2) and "Aieh" (2) (as spoken by TREMITUS)
"leach" (1) and "leech" (1) (when refering to TREMITUS)

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