The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04

Deathl Come, AntoayI' And, with one
| glance to heaven, she drank and cast the
goblet to TIE ground.
| Then at last came the moment Of my
pent-up vengeance, and Of the vengeance
| Of Egypt's outraged Gods, and Of the fall
| ing of the curse of Menks-ra
dwhat is thisf' she cried. = grow cold,
but / die not Thou dark physician, thou
! hast betrayed mep
aPeace, Cleopatrai Presently shalt thou
die and know the fury Of the Godsi The
curse Of Menka-ra hath fGileR 1t is finished
Look upon me, womani Look upon this
married face, this twisted form, this living
mass of sorrovi Look look Who dm In
| She stared upon me wildly.
"Ohi ohl, she shrieked, throwing up
her arms; Eat last know theei By the
Gods thou art Harmachisi Harmachis
risen from the deadF'
"Aye, Harmachis risen from the dead to
drag thee down to death and agony eternali
See thou, Cleopatra: 4 have ruined thee as
thou didst ruin mel I, working in the dark,
and helped Of the angry Gods, have been
thy secret spring of wool filled thy heart
with fear at Actium. held the Egyptians
from thy aid, Slapped the strength Of
SHOHcu Tic VI tho trOuo
unto thy captainsi By my hand at length
thou diest, for l am the instrument of
Vengeancei Rum do 1 pay thee back for
| ruin, treachery for treachery, death for
DEATH Come hither, Charniion, partner Of
my plots, who betrayed me, but, repenting,
! art the sharer of my triumph, come watch
this fallen wanten dieli
Cleopatra heard, and sank back upon the
ha1 trsn
| Charmionr'
A moment so she sat, then her Imperial
spirit burnt up glorious before she died.
She staggered from the bed, and, with
arms outstretched, she cursed me.
''Oh, for one hour of lfer' she cried I;
tone short hour, that therein might make
thee die in such fashion as thou canst not
dream, thou and that false paramour OF
thine. who betrayed both me and theel And
thou diist love mel All, there / have thee
still See, thou subtle, plotting priestr'
and with both hands she rent back the
royal robes from her bosom; ''See, on this
fair breast once, night by night, was thy
head pillowed, and thou didst sleep wrapped
| in these same arms. Now, put away their
memory If thou edns;y i read It in thine
| eyes that mayst thou notl No torture
| which / bear can, IL its sum, draw
nigh TO the rage Of that deep soul
of thine, rent with lougings, never,
never to be reached Harmachis.
| thou slave Of slaves, from thy
| triumph depths i snatch deeper triumph !.
and conquered, yet conqueri spit upon
thee, defy thee, and dying, doom thee to
| the torment of thy deathless Lowell o An
| touyl 1 come, my Antonyi leone to thine
/ own dear armsl Soon / shall find thee, and
wrapped in love undying and divine, to-
| gether will we float through all the depths
| of space, and lips to lips and eyes to eyes
| drink of desires grown more sweet with
| every draughtl Or if find thee not, then
SHALL sink in peace down the popped ways of
Sleep; and for me the breast of Night,
wherein / shall be softly Graded, shall yet
! seem thy bosom. Antony Oh. I diei
| Come, Antony, and give me peacel"
Even in my fury / quailed beneath her
| scorn, for home few the arrows of her
| winged words. AlasI and alas it was true.
The shaft of my vengeance fell upon my
own head; never had I loved her as loved
her now. Ny soul was rent with jealous
torture, and THUS swore she should not
die.
.Peacel'' cried; "what peace is there
for theea Oil We Holy Three, hear now
my prayer. Osiris, loosen Thou the bonus
of Hell, and send forth those whom l shall
summonl Come, Ptoleny, poisoned of thy
sister Cleopatra; come, Arsinoe, muir
dered in the sanctuary by thy sister
Cleopatra; come Sepa, tortured to death of
Cleopatra; come, Divine Menka-ra, whose
body Cleopatra tore, and whose curse
for greed she braved; come one, come all
who have died at the hands of Cleopatrai
n l. r IL r
her who murdered you'll By the link Of mys-
tic union, by the symbol Of the Life, Spirits,
/ summon your
to my robe, and the dying Cleopatra, rest
gazing with vacant eyes.
Then the answer came. The easement
burst asunder, and on fiittering wings that
great Bat entered which last l had seen
hanging to the eunuch's chin in the womb
of the pyramid Her. Thrice it circled round,
once it lowered Ger dead Iras, then it few
to where the dying woman stood. To her it
few, on her breast it settled, elinging to
that emerald which was dragged from the
dead heart of Menka-ra. Thrice the black
Horror screamed aloud, thrice it beat its
bony wings, and loi it was gone. Then
suddenly within that chamber sprangEp
the Shapes of Death. There was Arsinoe,
the beautiful, even as she had shrunk be-
meath the butchers knife. There was young
Ptolemy, his features twisted by the pol
soDed cup. There was the majesty Of Men
kara, crowned with the ureus crown; there
was grave Sepa, his flesh all torn by the
torturer's hooks; there were those poisoned
slaves; and there were others without num-
Der, shsdowy and dreadful to behold who.
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