The open sea. Edgar Lee Masters

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СКАЧАТЬ Charlottes with a lie.

       Smallpox is deadly as a butcher knife,

       He had to die. The syllabus is death

       In this our human logic: what’s the odds

       What premises produce conclusions? Knives,

       Consumptions, fevers, wars? We may be gods

       Withholding death where we have power to kill;

       Withhold it saying: She mistook, believed

       A lie, was faultless for believing it,

       And slew believing. Were it truth and all

       Believed we would applaud, as nations war,

       Bound in a common vision of one truth.

       The Revolution, France, will lose not, rather

       Gain by this clemency; ’twill lift a light,

       First in the world, of reason, justice purged

       Of hatred’s refuse: vengeance, fear, all passions

       Of bitterness of soul. We worship Reason,

       And this is Reason.

      Charlotte

      You have done your part

       And served me well. I thank you.

      The Jury

      Let her join

       Brutus in the Elysian Fields. We say:

       The guillotine!

      The Mob

      (Outside) To the guillotine! To the guillotine!

      Charlotte

      I am content.

A MAN CHILD IS BORN

       (February 12th, 1809. Log Hut near Hodgenville, Ky.) (A neighbor woman is talking)

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