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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 62
II.] TUX T'ltrUU IX C Y MILL
M"L-lY.
Outvoted !—
Plltl.IP (embracing him).
Host on thy friend's heart
MiLAY.
Itrotlicr, thou know'st if I mean loyally,— Hw warmly for my brethren'* welfare bents My heart, wear they the Cross or wear it not,— Too warmly beat* !
PlIlLIP.
ALis ! yea !—Let it beat !—
MOLAT.
Thou know'st in how degenerate a caso 1 found tho Order, from those rabblo dregs How much I havo created, how much more 1 fain would yet create !
PHILIP.
And it shall bo
Created !
MOLAY.
No—'twill not be ! Nevermore ! From such a lifeless mass tho Pluenix pure Will never rise !—That they should misconceive, That they should scorn mo, that they should ignorc,-Nor even deign to dream of,—all that I (Bear with my storm-tossed heart !) as sacrifice Havo freely offered in our holy cause,— God is my witness, that I can endure ! But that they now, in tho full light of day, Blindfold their eyes, and cannot, will not, see The one thing needful to humanity For whoso defence they're consecrated ; this Torments mo with a thousand martyrdoms.
PUILIP.
Thou livest still—thou art a young man still !
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