Daria Monologue from The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome

From The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

female · anguished · 1:09 min

O fantasy! unwelcome guest! How can this cave bring good to me? (MUSIC: Itself will tell, when it shall be Daria's tomb, her place of rest.) But then, who gave the stern decree, That this dark cave my bones should hide? (MUSIC: Daria, it was he who died, Who gave his life for love of thee.) "Who gave his life for love of me!" Ah! me, and can it be in sooth That gentle noble Roman youth I answered with such cruelty In this same wood the other day, Saying that I his love would be If he would only die for me! Can he have cast himself away Down this dark cave, and there lies dead, Buried within the dread abyss, Waiting my love, his promised bliss?-- My soul, not now mine own, has fled! CYNTHIA (within). Forward! forward! through the gloom Every cave and cavern enter, Search the dark wood to its centre, Lest it prove Daria's tomb.

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