Acte Monologue from Nero

From Nero by Stephen Phillips

female · philosophical · 54 sec

Yes, with a mortal touch that falters now. (POPPAEA: O Acte, to be dumb, and deaf, and blind!) Or live again with more transcendent sense, Hearing unchecked, and unimpeded sight. If we who walk now, then should wing the air, Who stammer now, then should discard the voice, Who grope now, then should see with other sight, And send new eyes about the universe. (POPPAEA: O, this is madness!) Is it? Is it? Well-- Yet have I heard this ragged people speak, And they have stirred me strangely: life they scorn, And yearn for death's tremendous liberty, But I--I cannot speak; yet I believe There is a new air blowing on the world, And a new budding underneath the earth.

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