CGM | The Restless Journey of a Child (1696)
Channel: Lazy at Churches
Date: 2020-06-11

Computer-Generated Monologues
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Hello all you cybernetic thespians out there. I used an algorithm to create brand new dramatic works, spanning multiple styles and hundreds of years. Please enjoy this piece from The Restless Journey of a Child (1696) by Elizabeth Cherry. 

Feel free to perform, wherever and whenever!

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CONCORDIA.

Thou talkest of Beauty, but it seem'st much in vain
This endless desolate night and day is hate-calcif'd,
The world and the ways from hence, and those ways from here:
There was a time when the sun burned on my face,
And the cold Earth closed her pale lips o'er me;
The memory drowns and sinks me in eternal sleep.

On the Tree of Love growing wild I stand by,
Fluttering and singing like the Chorus.
Are they blest if they cannot pass that wanton ground,
Or twine that crooked ladder of love and trust?
Thou talkest of Beauty, but Beauty seem'st not worth thee.

How can I find sweet pain, rich delight and measure of living grace,
Whereof no tender chord play or sweet tongue speak,
Nor common charms bewitch with angry slumbering pride,
Or stirring shades in meads taper up to my own?
How, in the face of an unknown destiny, a cripple
Though not burdened by years, with shoulders that rage and wind
In veins empty of strength, yet to the world seems my own,
And a fool hope in vain, of that immortal part, my own?

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