Eudora A Tragedy |
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SCENE X.
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SCENE X.
VERINO, EUDORA, LELIO, RAYMOND, &c.VERINO.
It is good heaven!
It is his form: O mock me not!
RAYMOND,
(entering)
My father—
VERINO.
He speaks! he lives! I have not killed my child.
RAYMOND.
My honored father! yes! thy son yet lives,
To heal thy wounded heart and bless thy age
VERINO.
Witness ye spirits! friends to human kind!
Witness the father has not slain his son!
What miracle preserved thy precious life
From my despair, my guilt?
RAYMOND.
Behold my Lord:
Behold the dear preserver of your son!
'Twas this celestial monitor, inspired
By pitying heaven, who taught me to defy
Impending torture with superior courage.
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Angel of safety, let me fold thee close,
Close to my panting heart! O I will sit,
Whole days to hear of thy amazing worth,
And bless thee o'er and o'er! but say my son
Has Heaven revealed the murderers of the prince?
RAYMOND.
Revealed and punished—but the King expects us,
His noble heart finds generous consolation
Under the bitter loss, which justly claims
Our deepest sympathy, in blessing Heaven
That saved him from the horror of destroying
The prince's bosom friend, for his assassin!
VERINO.
Away then to the palace! the old fathers
Shall mingle tears of blended grief and joy;
Nor will we e'er forget, thou lovely angel!
All that we owe to thee; thy fortitude
Shall be our daily theme!
EUDORA.
O! may the mercy
So signalized on us, when hope seemed lost,
Restrain the wild precipitance of man
In hours of misery, and through the world
Teach patient virtue, to confide in Heaven!
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