Aurora Leigh – Love and Revolution - 2cyberwhelm.org
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Scene 1 C<strong>and</strong>lelight<br />
(<strong>Aurora</strong>s)<br />
<strong>Aurora</strong> lights a c<strong>and</strong>le centerstage. Younger <strong>Aurora</strong> comes<br />
alive onstage.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
I write. My mother was a Florentine whose rare blue eyes were shut from seeing me<br />
when I was scarcely four years old.<br />
AURORA<br />
She could not bear the joy of giving life, the mother's rapture slew her.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
I, <strong>Aurora</strong> <strong>Leigh</strong>, was born to make my father sadder <strong>and</strong> myself not overjoyous, truly.<br />
AURORA<br />
Women know the way to rear up children. They have a simple, merry, tender knack of<br />
tying sashes, fitting baby shoes <strong>and</strong> stringing pretty words that make no sense <strong>and</strong> kissing<br />
full sense into empty words.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
Children learn by such - love's whole earnest in a pretty play - <strong>and</strong> get not overearly<br />
solemnized.<br />
AURORA<br />
Seeing love is divine, they become aware <strong>and</strong> unafraid of love.<br />
Fathers love as well.<br />
Mine did, I know.<br />
But with heavier brains<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
AURORA<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
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