The Martyrs’ Idyl

Louise Imogen Guiney.

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The Martyrs’ Idyl And Shorter Poems

BY LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1899

COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

THE MARTYRS’ IDYL TO KATHARINE AND GILES

THE MARTYRS’ IDYL [1]

[1] The outlines of this story, and much of the dialogue, in Scenes II., IV. and V., are taken from the Acta Sanctorum and S. Ambrose.

Sunset. A high rocky pasture above Alexandria. In the year of Our Lord 304.

Didymus, a young soldier, enters and throws himself down.

A Child enters, with a reed, wearing a wreath of thorns in his hair.

[The Child plays, a long time.

II

Night. The same fields. Didymus wakes, alone.

III

Midnight. A brothel. Theodora alone. Didymus breaks in.

[Theodora goes.

IV

Midnight. The city square outside. Didymus in the arched doorway of the same house. A turbulent crowd around.

Eustratius Proculus is borne into the square.

[The trumpets sound.

[Didymus is silent.

[The trumpets sound.

V

Dawn. The place of execution, west of the city, looking seaward. The same crowd, leading Didymus.

A slave rushes in.

[Didymus is executed.

THE SQUALL

MEMORIAL DAY

ROMANS IN DORSET

TO A. B.

VALSE JEUNE

THE CHANTRY

MONOCHROME

THE VIGIL IN TYRONE

TO G. S.

“BECAUSE NO MAN HATH HIRED US”

S. Matt. xx. 7.

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[2] Τὸ καλόν: Arthur Hugh Clough.

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