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    Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems
    Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems
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    Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems - Marion Forster Gilmore

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      Title: Virginia, A Tragedy

      And Other Poems

      Author: Marion Forster Gilmore

      Release Date: May 24, 2011 [EBook #36214]

      Language: English

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      VIRGINIA

      A Tragedy

      AND OTHER POEMS

      MARION FORSTER GILMORE

      VIRGINIA

      A Tragedy

      AND

      OTHER POEMS

      BY

      MARION FORSTER GILMORE

      JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY

      Incorporated

      LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

      1910

      COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY

      MARION FORSTER GILMORE

      Dedication

      TO MY FATHER

      [Thanks are due to the proprietors of The Cosmopolitan Magazine and Leslie's Weekly, for their courtesy in allowing the republication herein of a number of poems which have previously appeared in issues of their copyrighted magazines.]

      VIRGINIA

      A Tragedy

      CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY

      Appius Claudius,

      Chief of the Ten and lawgiver of the Romans.

      Marcus Claudius,

      His client.

      Oppius,

      One of the Ten.

      Virginius,

      A Roman centurion; a plebeian.

      Icilius,

      A tribune of the commons and lover to Virginia.

      Sicinius,

      A plebeian soldier and an enemy of the Decemvirs.

      Horatius,

      Galba,

      Marius,

      Hortensius,

      Four Roman citizens.

      Tiberius,

      A boy of noble birth; brother to Cornelia.

      The Ten Decemvirs.

      A Porter.

      Virginia,

      Daughter of Virginius.

      Cornelia,

      A patrician lady, secretly betrothed to Sicinius.

      Camilla,

      Nurse to Virginia.

      Julia,

      A maid.

      A Sibyl.

      A Slave Girl in the House of Appius Claudius.

      Soldiers, Lictors, Women, Rabble, and Serfs.

      Setting—Rome. Time—During Supremacy of the Decemvirs.

      ACT I—Scene I—The Forum. Scene II—A Street in Rome.

      ACT II—Scene I—The House of Appius. Scene II—Women's Apartments in the House of Virginius. Scene III—Garden in House of Virginius. Scene IV—Home of Cornelia.

      ACT III—Scene I—The Forum. Scene II—Home of Virginius. Scene III—The Forum.

      VIRGINIA

      A Tragedy

      ACT I.

      Scene I—The Forum.

      A multitude of citizens gathered therein. Disturbance shown among them by sullen looks and murmurings. Four citizens, two in patrician and two in plebeian garments, confer together.

      1st Cit. Enough, enough! I see we all agree

      Upon this common cause of our grievance;

      Our ranks, our unmixed blood, our differences,

      Are all forgotten—nay, methinks they shall

      In time together mingle when our blood

      Shall be poured forth in this most righteous cause.

      2nd Cit. As ever art thou eloquent, O Marius,

      And just; Brutus himself were not more so.

      Patrician and plebeian, equalized

      By common woe, together whisper menace

      To those who work such havoc as, indeed,

      Was never known in Rome until to-day.

      3rd Cit. Ye two are nobles; we, the commons are;

      Yet all are leveled by the grief we feel

      For Rome, our mother city, who so low

      Hath fall'n. Hark! the multitude itself

      Is wroth as we, yet, e'en as we, it lacks

      The courage needful for this fierce occasion.

      4th Cit. Ay, list indeed! Mark how the murmur swells!

      [They turn, and follow with their eyes the gaze of the Roman mob.

      Voices of lictors (without). Make way, ye Romans, way for the noble Ten!

      3rd Cit. Pah! they announce them like to royal kings!

      1st Cit. Tyrants are ceremonious to the letter.

      Multitude. All hail to the lawgivers! Life and peace

      Unto the Ten!

      2nd Cit. Jove's lightning strike them down,

      The turncoats! Ah, the cowards and the curs!

      Perfidious gang of fawners! Do they thus

      Forget their wrongs in the wrongdoer's presence,

      Or veil them with that slime, false loyalty?

      [Enter the Ten Decemvirs, each preceded by twelve lictors armed with fasces.

      4th Cit. Lo! the presumption! How each lictor bears

      Amongst his rods an axe to indicate

      That life and death lie in his master's word.

      Once was each tyrant pleased with one attendant

      The way to clear—now must they number twelve.

      [The Decemvirs pause a space, the while their leader, Appius Claudius, addresses the assembled citizens.

      Appius. Ye Roman citizens! Unto our ears

      Murmurings hath arrived laden with strife;

      And though this day ye have protested loud

      Your loyalty, and hailed us with acclaim,

      Ye seem but ill-content. This must not be.

      We have been lenient to every class—

      What ye demand in reason ye receive.

      Ye called for written laws, and lo! they hang

      Within the Forum that all eyes may read.

      Yet, mark ye! Read not only, but obey,

      Else blood shall pour

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