id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 10133 Quiller-Couch, Arthur The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" .txt text/plain 13479 1976 98 I am old; I am dumb; I have waited to sing till Apollo withdrew-90 _Cesario, Gamba the Fool, Guards, Populace._ Lean on the wall, and loose her cage-bird heart, Draws home her lord the Duke? eye--the Duke's colours, loyal man!--you clap breaks into cheers as Count Lucio comes springing _Crowd._ Long live the Duke! _Crowd._ Long live the Duke! _Cesario._ Count Lucio, These seven years agone, when the Duke sailed, _Regent._ So slips the chain linking this world with Heaven, _Old Woman._ God bless your Highness! _Regent_ (_turns, looks up, and falls on her face_). _Regent_ (_she lifts a hand to keep him at distance_). _Cesario_ (_watching the Regent_). _Lucio._ Ay, Duke, push God aside, _Lucio._ Cesario! _Lucio._ Cesario! _Regent._ Dear Lucio!--You'll not pluck away your hand _He._ Whisper, then, thy love Arion, Bend o'er thy book till thou be grey, Night falls; but thou, dear Captain, from thy star ./cache/10133.txt ./txt/10133.txt