Availing? Have not all things pointed to it? The day she died Did I not hear a voice That breathed into my brain she should arise? And as I waited did a book of wisdom Not chance into my hands to show the way? Were the first words I read not, In ten years The miracle shall come-- Revealed to you within the land of the Sphinx? (Rhasis: So read it, so! But----) Is this not that land? Are not those stones the pyramids that thro The ages have stood waiting for this hour-- When I shall bring her beauty back, today? Is not that face the Sphinx, Whose timeless and intemperable meaning No man has read in desert, star, or sea, But which must be the secret I unsphere? (Rhasis: O master!) Fail, fail, fail? now to restore her? Who died as you shall know, here ere she rises, Because my brother--aieh! the father of Ion-- Who bore as well that name-- Desiring her, vilely accused her---- Myrrha (involuntarily, behind curtains). Oh!... Arduin (bewildered). Who spoke? It was her voice? [ (Runs to sarcophagus.)

Arduin Monologue from The Immortal Lure

Rehearse Arduin's monologue