{"id":791,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=791"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:26","slug":"38-fragement-of-a-play-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/27-supplement-volume-27\/38-fragement-of-a-play-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","title":{"rendered":"-38_Fragement of A Play.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

\n
\nS<\/font>UPPLEMENT
\nTO <\/font>
\nV<\/font>OLUME<\/font>
\n7<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\nCOLLECTED
\nPLAYS<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The
\nbeginning  of a play from Sri Aurobindo’s manuscripts<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nAct
\nOne<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n
\n<\/span>S C E N E  
\n<\/span>I<\/p>\n

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

Mathura<\/b><\/i>
\nA Street in Mathura: Ocroor House<\/i><\/p>\n

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

OCROOR
\n– SUDAMAN<\/font><\/p>\n

         
\n<\/span>SUDAMAN <\/p>\n

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

Who
\nart thou?<\/p>\n

        
\n<\/span>OCROOR<\/p>\n

                            
\n<\/span>One that walks the night.<\/p>\n

SUDAMAN
\n<\/span>
\n                                                                      
\n<\/span>No Ogre,<\/p>\n

But Ocroor by thy voice.<\/p>\n

        
\n<\/span>OCROOR<\/p>\n

                                    
\n<\/span>Sudaman? The children <\/p>\n

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

Of 
\n<\/span>Surasegn, hadst thou made such reply<\/p>\n

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

 <\/span>Would
\notherwise have answered.<\/p>\n

   
\n<\/span>    
\nSUDAMAN
\n<\/span>
\n                                                                    
\n<\/span>So they would. <\/p>\n

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

An
\nOgre, I ? Yes, one to eat all up.
\nOcroor, I have a belly to digest
\nMuch more than Mathura.<\/p>\n

OCROOR<\/p>\n

                                                 
\n<\/span>So Ravan had
\nAnd yet he perished. Walk not thus alone
\nWhen the black night has draped the cowering earth,<\/p>\n

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

 <\/span>Lest
\none of those whose brothers, fathers, sons <\/p>\n

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

Thy
\nword destroyed, should rip that belly through <\/p>\n

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

And
\nlaugh, "So dies Sudaman."
\n<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nPage-139<\/font><\/p>\n

\n


\nSUDAMAN<\/p>\n

                                           
\n<\/span>I am shielded.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>OCROOR
\nNot by the gods at least.<\/p>\n

SUOAMAN<\/p>\n

 <\/span>   <\/span>                                
\n<\/span>A
\ngreater god  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

That’s Fear. By her
\nI rule this Mathura <\/p>\n

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

And
\nshe walks by me in the eyeless night <\/p>\n

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

Protecting.
\nThe peoples! Danger is easily cowed<\/p>\n

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

 <\/span>By
\nmen like me who do not fear to die
\nMore than they fear to slay. But what dost thou <\/p>\n

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

There
\nlonely in our Mother’s shadow black, <\/p>\n

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

Ocroor?
\nHer shades embrace the lover and the thief <\/p>\n

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

Two
\nkindred trades – but which of these is thou?<\/p>\n

<\/span>
\n        <\/span>OCROOR
\nWhy both, Sudaman.<\/p>\n

 <\/span>
\n     <\/span>SUDAMAN<\/p>\n

                                
\n<\/span>If thou turnst girl-stealer,<\/font><\/p>\n

Pray,
\nlet it be from one of Yadu’s stock.<\/p>\n

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

(Incomplete)<\/i>
\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nPage-140<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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