Atto

 1 1|     stray~ ~From Him who is The Life, The Truth, The Way!~ ~My
 2 1|       If Heaven should claim my life, my death, my all,—~ ~Then
 3 1|       There—at his feet—do I my life resign~95~If but Pauline—
 4 1|         or fear’st thou for thy life?~115~ POLY. For more, a
 5 1|        thee more than self—than life—than fame—~ ~But——~ ~ PAUL.
 6 1|     secret! Let him guard~ ~Thy life beloved—in fullest liberty.~ ~
 7 1|       it he who, at the risk of life,~ ~Saved Decius from his
 8 1|       In death, the only end to life’s long grief!~ ~You know
 9 1|   attest, all trembling for his life,~ ~That I am his for aye—
10 1|        in honour dear,~ ~Risked life to save his Emperor from
11 1| Unstained, undimmed, his glory, life and name!~ ~ ALBIN. You
12 1|     despite~ ~Of danger sore to life and liberty,~ ~Became a
13 2|      she cold? My love! My only life!~ ~ FABIAN. No—but—my lord——~ ~
14 2|          Who welcomes death can life’s short pain endure!~ ~
15 2|        True to her! Shall I her life undo?~100~She loves the
16 2|       sublime;~ ~In pity for my life forlorn, my peace denied,~ ~
17 2|           To bless, to save thy life, so will I mate with death!~ ~
18 2|      blow, there yet remains of life~ ~Enough to summon death,
19 2|      dream is past, for here in life am I!~ ~ PAUL. The day is
20 2|       martyr shares!~ ~ NEAR. A life of duty well that crown
21 2|        win.~ ~ POLY. The purest life on earth is stained with
22 2|       315~Death but the gate of life that aye endures.~ ~If I
23 2|     death!~ ~ POLY.Is this poor life so dear?~ ~ NEAR. Ah, I
24 3|           He is our source, our life, our end,—no other god adore,~ ~‘
25 3|         plead~ 255~For his dear life! To my last prayer give
26 3|      renown I fear,—fear for my life.~ ~I must myself undo to
27 3|    Implore of Decius’ grace the life thou canst not save.~ ~
28 4|    strife—ah, death the gate of life,—~ ~Christ’s servants, none
29 4|    supreme—to comfort me,~75~So life’s brief night shall merge
30 4|        worth of this self-hated life,~100~And think in pity of
31 4|      the headsman’s sport?~ ~Is life a toy wherewith thy death
32 4|       thou wouldst say.~110~Our life is ours to use, and we that
33 4|      that debt must pay.~ ~What life is this men love? An idle,
34 4|     kingdom mar.~ ~Is this poor life—the creature of a day—~ ~
35 4|       st: ‘To win such prize my life is naught!’~ ~But is thy
36 4|        is naught!’~ ~But is thy life thine own? How was it bought?~ ~
37 4|        How was it bought?~ ~Our life an heirloom to our country
38 4|     recognise the claim.~135~My life I owe to whom I owe my sword—~ ~
39 4|         begirt with fear.~ ~For life’s stern race too weak, too
40 4|           Who lives a Christian life must Christian be!~ ~Her
41 4|       equal hath on earth.~ ~My life, the bar,—my death the link
42 4|      thee: more, if Polyeucte’s life he take,~ ~For thee he slays
43 4|     Turned heaven to hell? made life a living tomb?~ 300~Nearer
44 4|        see the ghost I laid, to life revive,~ ~The more seductive
45 4|     where Christians live—there life is pure,~ ~Vice dies untended,
46 5|      nature this, ‘Preserve thy life!’~ ~ ALBIN. Ah, let Pauline
47 5|      grave!~ ~(To POLYEUCTE) Is life still hateful? Doth death
48 5|         sword,—to cast away thy life?~ ~ POLY. I never hated
49 5|             POLY. I never hated life, or wooed a grave,~ ~To
50 5|          or wooed a grave,~ ~To life I am a servant—not a slave.~
51 5|        His Home I go.~ ~Eternal life is this: to tread the path
52 5|       most mean,~ ~Come back to life—to honour—to Pauline! [Holds
53 5|   vengeance slake!~ ~ PAUL. His life is saved! These fetters
54 5|      Son to death that we might life embrace;~ ~And this—Christ’
55 5|   Christ reveals and pleads—The Life—The Truth—The Way!~ ~No
56 5|        death!~ ~ POLY.Ah, no to life!~ ~(To PAULINE.) Remember
57 5| Christian I,~ ~That Death gives life by which alike we die!~ ~(
58 5|         That dust shall wake to life for evermore!~