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Updated: May 17, 2025
What would be the result? ... "When the High Priestess Is the King's mistress Then fall Al- Kyris!" These foolish doggerel lines! ... why did they suggest themselves? ... they meant nothing. The question did not concern Al-Kyris at all, let the city stand or fall as it list, who cared, so long as Sah-luma escaped injury!
And now must I kneel to thee in vain? thou whose victories I have sung, whose praises I have chanted in burning words that shall carry thy name forever with triumph, down to unborn generations? ... Wilt thou become inglorious? ... a warrior stricken strengthless by the mummeries of priestcraft, the juggleries of a perishing creed? Thou art the ruler of Al- Kyris, thou and thou only!
All sorts of topics were discussed the laws, the existing mode of government, the latest discoveries in science, and the military prowess of the King but the conversation chiefly turned on the spread of disloyalty, atheism, and republicanism among the population of Al- Kyris, and the influence of Khosrul on the minds of the lower classes.
No festival can ye enjoy without a gust of contention! ye are ill-made instruments all, whose jarring strings even I, crowned Minstrel of the King, can scarce keep one day in happy tune! Look you now! ... this stranger is my guest! . Is there a man in Al- Kyris who will treat as an enemy one whom Sah-luma calls friend?"
Weep, weep for the doom of Al-Kyris!" and now his wild voice sank by degrees into a piteous plaintiveness "Weep! for never again on earth shall be found a fairer dwelling- place for the lovers of joy! ... never again shall be builded a grander city for the glory and wealth of a people! Al-Kyris! Al- Kyris!
From sunset to midnight these messages keep coming without intermission, and all the most carefully concealed affairs of Al- Kyris are discovered by the Temple Spies and conveyed to Lysia by this means.
Behold the end is at hand of all the pleasant things of Al- Kyris, the feasting and the musical assemblies, the cymbal- symphonies and the choir-dances, the labors of students and the triumphs of sages, all these shall seem but the mockery of madness in the swift-descending night of overwhelming destruction!
Fool thou must be, and breaker of the King's law, else thou hadst never dared to bask in such swine-like ease outside the gates of Al- Kyris the Magnificent!" Al-Kyris the Magnificent! What was the man talking about? Uttering a hasty exclamation, Alwyn staggered to his feet with an effort, and shading his eyes from the hot glare of the sun, stared bewilderedly at his interlocutor.
I would there were more of thy proud and chilly temperament in Al- Kyris! ... Our men are like velvet-winged butterflies, drinking honey all day and drowsing in sunshine full to the brows of folly, frail and delicate as the little dancing maidens of the King's seraglio, . . nervous too, with weak heads, that art apt to ache on small provocation, and bodies that are apt to fail easily when but slightly fatigued.
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