{"id":753,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=753"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:12","slug":"51-rodogune-act-three-scene-3-vol-06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06\/51-rodogune-act-three-scene-3-vol-06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06","title":{"rendered":"-51_Rodogune-Act Three-Scene-3.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nSCENE III<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n

\n

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\n

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\nUnder the Syrian hills.
\nAntiochus, his generals, soldiers, Eunice, Rodogune, Mentho.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NTIOCHUS<\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat god has moved them from their passes sheer
\nWhere they were safe from me ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tT<\/font>HOAS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey have had word,
\nNo doubt, to take us living.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tL<\/font>EOSTHENES
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOn!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tT<\/font>HOAS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey are
\nThree thousand, we six hundred armed men.
\nShall we go forward ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tL<\/font>EOSTHENES
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOnward still, I say!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NTIOCHUS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYes, on! I turn not back lest my proud Fate
\nAvert her eyes from me. A hundred guard
\nThe princesses.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe goes, followed
\nby Thoas, Leosthenes,
\nPhiloctetes.<\/i><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>UNICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe’ll break them like sea-spray;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThey shall not stand before him.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 413<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\tRODOGUNE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYou missioned angels, guard Antiochus.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAs she speaks, the Eremite
\nenters and regards her.<\/i><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>UNICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe is through them, he is through them! How they scatter
\nBefore his sword! My warrior!<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tR<\/font>ODOGUNE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho is this man,
\nEunice? <\/b> He is terrible to me.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>REMITE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho art thou rather, born to be a torch
\nTo kingdoms ? Is not thy beauty, rightly seen,
\nMore terrible to men than monstrous forms
\nWhich only frighten ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>UNICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat if kingdoms burn,
\nSo they bum grandly ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>REMITE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSpirits like thine think so.
\nPrincess of Antioch, hast thou left thy father
\nTo follow younger eyes? Alas, thou know’st not
\nWhere they shall lead thee! It is to gates accursed
\nAnd by a dolorous journey.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>UNICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBeyond all portals
\nI’ld follow! I am a woman of the Greeks
\nWho fear not death nor hell.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAntiochus returns.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 414<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tA<\/font>NTIOCHUS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOur swords have hewn
\nA road for us. Who is this flamen ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>REMITE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHail!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n"Rejoice" I cannot say, but greet Antiochus
\nWho never shall be king.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NTIOCHUS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho art thou, speak,
\nWho barr’st with such ill-omened words my way
\nDiscouraging new-born victory ? What thou know’st,
\nDeclare! Curb not thy speech. I have a mind
\nStronger than omens.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>REMITE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am the appointed voice
\nWho come to tell thee thou shalt not be king,
\nBut at thy end shall yield to destiny
\nFor all thy greatness, genius, pride and force
\nEven as the tree that falls. March then no farther,
\nFor in thy path Fate hostile stands.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NTIOCHUS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf Fate
\nWould have me yield, let her first break me. On!<\/b><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>REMITE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe guardians of the path then wait for thee
\nVigilant lest the world’s destiny be foiled
\nBy human greatness. March on to thy doom.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NTIOCHUS<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI will. Straight on, whatever doom it be!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 415<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tE<\/font>REMITE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFarewell, thou mighty Syrian, soul misled,
\nStrength born untimely! we shall meet again
\nWhen death shall lead thee into Antioch.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe goes.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NTIOCHUS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMarch.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nCurtain<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 416<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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