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By Yusra Al-Ayoubi
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Act Three Scene Five |
Act Three - Scene Five Diana's eulogy Never I'll know exultation After my only love and protector gone Who ever will do me consolation Will sadden me to abomination Alive he is my love, his spirit will never quit The land of terror, of various sects A man innocent of fanatic hatred Why should he be a victim Of fanatic hatred? His look immaculate His enmity was full Of compassion to humanity Had been harassed by terrorists His blood will hover Over our souls To fill our hearts with regret By new generations will be mourned When they come to unity, to reason His hapless star brought him Before his time Then plucked the rose in bloom His soul will live the instant he died To urge humanity to reason, To a better way of life The man who shot him dead Will be cursed by his son Will be for ever in shame Oh you cruel dawn what have you murdered? To my heart full of agony That my child will live fatherless With no hope From his journey to return! That he preferred the peace Of grave Than the light of the sun Jamilah His nation before him Was forsaken Down-trodden by the nations When his right to live in his land Was shattered by acclamation Of usurpers who won? Diana Ah Jamilah, something queer I feel In my heart that still beats With his love Why did I link my life to his To beget from many such a hate Better if he remained An eagle alone inviolate Perhaps I shared in his fate So near he was to base souls Full of envy, jealousy To fanaticism, prejudice To those who coveted me To the chaos of my life That deprived him of his power He was distracted by protecting me Than being free to protect himself Our love was welded by flame We could not see the barriers to unite A Maronite with PLO Sunnite And instead to rest in my arm In a grave he rested calm (Diana weeps) Jamilah Don't blame yourself Diana dear Even if he was on a cliff He would never be secured Those who coveted his land Would chase him for ever To bend his will He would never avoid danger Those who coveted your rivers Would find any claim to violate your land Paganists in old times were more truthful When they waged a war They said: "We want your gold and silver We enslave you for this cause" The will of power is still But it masques itself well |
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