Monologue

Czare Monologue from Vera

From Vera by Oscar Wilde

male · defiant · 47 sec

Then they have great wrongs. Father, they have won your battles for you; from the pine forests of the Baltic to the palms of India they have ridden on victory's mighty wings in search of your glory! Boy as I am in years, I have seen wave after wave of living men sweep up the heights of battle to their death; ay, and snatch perilous conquest from the scales of war when the bloody crescent seemed to shake above our eagles. CZAR . Those men are dead. What have I to do with them?

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