Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01

tility in psychic analysis is the portraiture
of Rsredure's ideal love for Norgcuse He
remains the steadfast skeptic to Msrsin's ac-
cusations of the Queen of Orkney's perfdy
and baseness and answers -Nersin with all
the sentiment of the poet with all the un.
Consciousness of noble soul unacqusinted
with the actualities of life:
By heaven, tits false!
As soon the rosy labor OF the dawn
Might bring forth darkness!
Then turning to the easement Of Morgoass's
chamber he addresses her:
Lamp Of my soul. behind yon lattice lies
More mystery, more beauty, more delight
Than grizzled Merlin with his lapse OF
years
Has ever dreamed of. There's moro credit
writ
In thy dear smile than all his subtleties.
Ah, opal-hearted! now she doth unclothe
The solemn sweep Of her majestic limbs,
The mystery Of her awful loneliness;
And draws the curtains Of her couch about
As some earth-goddess Of old northern
Might draw the heavy drapery Of the night.
A fine scene is also where Psredurs visits
Morgduss, and we have here a mastery
blending into harmonious picture of an
almost divine devotion on the one hand, and
other. Pered,ae's beautiful song in this
scene reminds one in its exquisite delicacy
OF Browning's "She's Woman Like
Dewdrop," in the '.Blot on the 'Scutcheon.
He sings:
You remind me- sweetfns,
OF the glow,
Warm and pure and deottng,
Blush of fappleblossoms-
On cloud bosoms.
When the sun is low.
Like golden apple.
Mid the far
Topmost leaves that dappls
Stretch OF summer plue-
sky-set like q star.
Fearful lest bruise you,
How should I
Dare to reach you. choose you.
Stain you with my touchf
1t Is much
That you star the sky.
Why should be climbing.
All that sets me rhymine-
In my hand enfold
All that gold
OF Hesperidesf
Iwould not enfold you,
II might.
would just behold yen.
Sigh and turn away,
While the day
Darkens into night.
The death of Rsredure by his own hands
when his eyes become opened to the moral
obliquity Of the Queen of Orkney. is o
deeply pathetic scene. and 6tly closes the
fourth act. He has killed Ladinas and find
ing the ideal which al the purity of his
lofty imagination had created was crumbled
into dust, he has not strength to outlive the
shock. g.
Guenevere Attempts Deception.
The fifth act contains the most powerful
scene between Lduncelot and Galenevere The
latter has awakened from the intoxication
of her love; the golden clouds of passion
have rolled away and revealed to her the
gloomy and perilous path she and her lover
are treading. Her love, like all genuine,
is altruistic; she thinks more of Launceot,
more of the dangers she may have called
down upon her innocent friends and the
welfare of the state, than of herself The
climax of the scene is centered in the pass
age where she resorts to the most subtle
dialectic, belief and honor can inspire her
with to break the spell she and Launeelot
are under. Not every argument, however
adroitly presented, Lawscelot's reButtals are
able to overcome. At last she draws false
hood to her aid, and with an almost SUPER
human effort denies that she ever loved him;
but at the crucial moment when her wish
may be reached, at the very instant when
her object is in her grasp, the sustaining
power fails her.
must make turning back impossible.
Best know the worst! jested-
I-Godi do not love you. Col Twas all