Monologue

Arduin Monologue from The Immortal Lure

From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice

male · anguished · 1:09 min

Not--? You uprisen? Has the tomb treachery to change the soul? Ye skies, must I go mad now at this moment When I have brought her back from destiny? Not mine?... Awake! Oblivion enthralls you. [ (Suddenly starting from her.) Or is it that there in the grave, another--? (Myrrha: No, no! but--) Ha, then! if not--if it be not-- Is it that here returned you wish another? You who so gaze upon my goaded brow And face grown old with toil to conquer death? O youth ruthless to age! e'en tho its furrows Were got for your delight!--Ingratitude!-- Have I so hungered thro long years to pluck A flower of Hell back to the light!... No, No! It cannot be!... You shall be mine! Myrrha (in terror). Sir, sir!

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