The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-09
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TNorn may he expected FROM him "dtvino-t
o.nmruov Hc has no deaths ~ ayenRe,
H. wrath a. hrihe. M desperate followers
camoring for spoil, Pardon from him
may beautifully fan" There shall be free
speech. He will not rule "A dumb indignant
earth. will not he emperor over tho nm
utterri curae." He will chastise informera
and will not listen tn scandal. To he ruler
Of the world Ia To- bear a heavy load. His
good mother will help him. In a sentence
perhaps a little too obviously lahorious
and ornamental he expresses his need Of his
mother. He says to her:
need you at this moment
More even than when my toothlrss guns did tumble
About thy breast In darkness Of the nlgrt.
It IL a better line where A~grippina re-
minds him Of the crimes that nave been
done, the blood hat has been split az the
result Of her dark imperial meditations"
In his hahalf. Says Agrippina:
Why, I have made a way for thee through ghosts.
The first act ends with a procession OF
dead Emperors-Julius, Tiherius, Caius,
Claudius- passing before the sleeping Nero.
The reader will not wonder at the observa-
ton Of the faithful Acte at this point: Nero,
how the drops stand on your brow"
How fair was PoppGa? According to
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-strayed into the world or wandered in
more witchery through the air since she
who drew the dreaming keels of Greece
after her over the Ionian foam" PoprRa
herself, in enumerating some of her own
beauties, spoke of this hair rolling about
me like a lighted sea. which was my glory
and the theme of the earth and Of her
eyes which were the bliss of burning EN-
perors." 1t is probable that Porrea
could have made captive Of Nero by power
Of her beauty alone, but to make quite sure
she recited his own poetry to him. 1t was
well for anybody to he appreciative Of
Nero renius in the practice of the arts.
In the second act it tells of the unfortunate
Titus Cassius. who fell asleep while the
Emperor was singing, He WAS sentenced
to die tut Nero was kind to him at the last,
singing to him so that he might pass away
In music How foolish he would appear
among the shades, Nero reflected, if, when
Orpheus asked him il he had heard Nero
sing, he were obliged to say that lie had
not. Il would not, said Nero, have him
arrive ridiculous among the dead" Against
this humor set the following from Agrip-
pima when she and Nero quarrelled.
Not the seas shall stop me now,
Raging on all the shores OF all the world.
Witness II easily my son did reign.
] am bloody from head TO foot for sake OF him.
And for my cub am | incainadined.
I'll 70. but " | fall Rome too shall fall:
I'll shake this empire TIL It reel and crash
On that ung grateful head: and II / fall.
The builded world shall tumble down In thunder.
A drama full of all sorts of interesting
matters. 1t Is skilful in every part, and
readable all through.