Behind a Watteau Picture a Fantasy in Verse in One Act
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. And humankind forgot ? [47] BEHIND A WATTEAU PICTURE Columbine goes with us . :, t .we are not afraid. You shall not kill the maid. Marqtiis.\ Not while a sword is mine To guard Columbine. Pierrot looks from Columbine, full of indecent triumph, to the earnest three and smiles, very gently and sadly. But Harlequin does not take it so calmly. Harlequin. So soon ? Has she bewitched you too ? She is a cold and heartless thing For all her loveliness, Her pretty wantoning . . . She holds men*s hear...ts in sick duress, You know not what you do ! Poet. She is a lovely thing in evil stead, Too lovely to lie dead Under this strange moonshine. . ? « [48] BEHIND A WATTEAU PICTURE Nay, she shall lift her sunny head Far from these walls . . . and laugh ! Harlequin. Grimly. Her lips like wine Make drunken those who quaff. Give her to us to kill. Pierrot. Breaking his absent silence at last. The moon is silent ever . . . gives no sign. These men are young and foolish in their youth. Think ye she will have ruth Upon them .
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