Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 41 of 118
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This is a page of running dramatic verse from page 25 of a work titled *Medea*. The text presents poetic dialogue spoken by different groups—identified as "Some Women" and "Others"—addressing a female character who has journeyed from her father's home across seas to a foreign land, lost her lover, and now wanders as a homeless exile. The verses employ archaic language ("knoweth," "waxeth") and reference classical elements like "the Dark Blue Rocks" and "the shores of the Greek," suggesting this is a Victorian dramatic adaptation or reimagining of the classical Medea myth.
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MEDEA 25 Else, else, O God the Singer, I had sung amid their rages : A long tale of Man and his deeds for good and ill. But the old World knoweth—’tis the speech of all his ages— Man’s wrong and ours: he knoweth and is still. Some Women. Forth from thy father’s home Thou camest, O heart of fire, To the Dark Blue Rocks, to the clashing foam, To the seas of thy desire: Till the Dark Blue Bar was crossed; And, lo, by an alien river Standing, thy lover lost, Void-armed for ever, Forth yet again, O lowest Of landless women, a ranger Of desolate ways, thou goest, From the walls of the stranger. Others. And the great Oath waxeth weak; And Ruth, as a thing outstriven, Is fled, fled, from the shores of the Greek, Away on the winds of heaven. GOmichbooks.com