Monologue

Parbury Monologue from The Tyranny of Tears: A Comedy in Four Acts

From The Tyranny of Tears: A Comedy in Four Acts by C. Haddon (Charles Haddon) Chambers

male · inspirational · 52 sec

The new way for us is the old way for the wise. It is a pleasant way strewn with flowers, the flowers of self-abnegation--of sweet reasonableness--of patient tolerance--of enduring trustfulness. Walking in that way we seek diligently for the happiness, not of ourselves, but of each other. Rising in the morning we say, not, I will find happiness to-day, but I will give happiness to-day. In that way lie peace, the fulfilment of our better selves, the full golden harvest of love. [As he speaks these words with deep sympathy, standing a little away from her, she gradually draws nearer to him.

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