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The Golden Doom

by Lord Dunsany



Persons

The King
Chamberlain
Chief Prophet
Girl
Boy
Spies
First Prophet
Second Prophet
First Sentry
Second Sentry
Stranger
Attendants

Scene: Outside the King's great door in Zericon.
Time: Some while before the fall ofBabylon.




{Two Sentries pace to and fro, then halt, one on each side
of the great door.}

First Sentry:
The day is deadly sultry.

Second Sentry:
I would that I were swimming down the Gyshon, on the
cool side, under the fruit trees.

First Sentry:
It is like to thunder or the fall of a dynasty.

Second Sentry:
It will grow cool by night-fall. Where is the King?

First Sentry:
He rows in his golden barge with ambassadors or
whispers with captains concerning future wars. The
stars spare him!

Second Sentry:
Why do you say "the stars spare him"?