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    Makers of Madness A Play in One Act and Three Scenes
    Makers of Madness A Play in One Act and Three Scenes
    Makers of Madness A Play in One Act and Three Scenes
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    Makers of Madness A Play in One Act and Three Scenes

    By Hermann Hagedorn

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Makers of Madness A Play in One Act and Three Scenes - Hermann Hagedorn

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Makers of Madness, by Hermann Hagedorn

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      Title: Makers of Madness

      A Play in One Act and Three Scenes

      Author: Hermann Hagedorn

      Release Date: September 3, 2005 [EBook #16636]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAKERS OF MADNESS ***

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      MAKERS OF MADNESS

      THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

      new york · boston · chicago · dallas

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      MACMILLAN & CO., Limited

      london · bombay · calcutta

      melbourne

      THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.

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      MAKERS OF MADNESS

      A PLAY IN ONE ACT AND THREE SCENES

      BY

      HERMANN HAGEDORN

      AUTHOR OF FACES IN THE DAWN, ETC.

      New York

      THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

      1914

      All rights reserved

      Copyright, 1914

      By HERMANN HAGEDORN

      Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1914.

      This play has been copyrighted and published simultaneously in the United States and Great Britain. All acting rights, both professional and amateur, are reserved in the United States, Great Britain, and countries of the Copyright Union, by Hermann Hagedorn. Performances forbidden and right of representation reserved. Application for the right of performing this piece must be made to The Macmillan Company. Any piracy or infringement will be prosecuted in accordance with the penalties provided by the United States Statutes:

      Sec. 4966. Any person publicly performing or representing any dramatic or musical composition, for which copyright has been obtained, without the consent of the proprietor of the said dramatic or musical composition, or his heirs or assigns, shall be liable for damages therefor, such damages in all cases to be assessed at such sum, not less than one hundred dollars for the first and fifty dollars for every subsequent performance, as to the Court shall appear to be just. If the unlawful performance and representation be willful and for profit, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be imprisoned for a period not exceeding one year. U.S. Revised Statutes, Title 60, Chap. 3.

      TO

      ADOLF GUNTHER HAGEDORN

      Transcriber's Note: Where obvious, I added missing punctuation, and changed the typo psycholology to psychology.

      Night! And a black and barren sky

      With a wet wind in from the coast.

      And only the kites to make reply

      To heaving body and pleading cry—

      Here where the lost battalions lie,

      I walked last night with a ghost.

      His face was gray, his hands were red,

      And a ghostly mare he rode,

      That wearily stepped, with drooping head,

      Over the shadowy lines of dead,

      And rolled her eyes, and shook with dread

      Under her foam-white load.

      The ghost turned not to left or right.

      But mutely he beckoned me,

      And moved like a pillar of livid light

      Through the humid dark of the foggy night,

      With eyes deep-sunken and greenly bright

      As phosphor on the sea.

      He led me where in ghostly files

      The dead slept with their toys.

      Miles, miles, and never-ending miles,

      Along the valley's mournful aisles,

      The voiceless, vague, misshapen piles

      Of men and golden boys!

      He led me up the gory hill

      By wood and sodden heath.

      Ravage! And faces, lone and chill,

      In the murmuring wash of the willow-rill!

      Slaughter! And voices, begging shrill

      The merciful grace of death.

      A waning moon broke, sickly pale,

      Through the muddy fog's disguising;

      And over the breadth of the ghastly vale

      The battle-wake like a steamer's trail,

      And a heaving as of waves in a gale,

      Rising and falling and rising!

      And out of the air, and up from the plain,

      The ancient battle-story!—

      Of stricken love and laughter slain,

      And hearts beneath the hoofs of pain—

      But not a breath of human gain,

      And not a word of glory.

      MAKERS OF MADNESS

      CHARACTERS

      In costuming

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