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Greeting, Harmachis. So my messenger has found thee!

By

She looked; she saw the awful shapes.

And while I spoke watching the stars, she sat and watched my face

An omen, royal Harmachis.

And thus I left her

I dashed him down

I saw a spar of wood to which I swam.

Noble Antony, thou hast called me and I am come

She held it to the light and gave a little cry.

And now her lips met mine.

Cleopatra

Twice he leapt thus, horrible to see

And thus... I for the first time saw Cleopatra face to face.

'I've won,' she cried

Who is this man who comes to gaze on fallen Antony?

He fixed his gaze on Cleopatra... as a man who is amazed.

Before me was Cleopatra, but oh! how changed

That

Oh those nights upon the Nile!

These

I

On

I seized him with my will and stare and drew him after me.

A cloud grew upon the face of the moon

For

Still she sits like yonder Sphinx, and smiles

At

On

I saw the world as it had been before man was

Once

I

It

Far away stood Charmion... her white arms outstretched as though to clasp.

They wavered, thinking to slay me also

And

And we went forth.

That

I was lowered bodily into those sacred depths

In

I crown thee Pharaoh.

Ay, we will work like the worm at the heart of a fruit.

Now

At

Clad

Thus

Once

For

He fixed his gaze on Cleopatra... as a man who is amazed.

And

Cleopatra

Ere

Now

Charmion

They

As she spoke, the man, with a great cry, gave up the spirit.

In

On

On

We

Presently

For

I

On