The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold Part 8

Spoils, heroic, tumultuous, Emblems, worthy remembrance-- Marking a hero's grave.

[_While this is being sung there enters a procession of youths dressed in white, each carrying a gigantic wreath, inscribed with one of_ Arnold's _victories:--The Maine Wilderness, Quebec, Valcour's Island, St. John's, Ridgefield, Bemis Heights, Saratoga, etc. They circle the group, and pile the wreaths about the couch, then stand about in symmetry._]

_Father Hudson_. Enough, my children, I understand. Leave me awhile.

Let there be no loud praises. Go silently.

[_A dead march is played._ Father Hudson _resumes the plastic, immobile, and almost invisible att.i.tude which he occupied at the opening of the play. The_ Choruses _file silently out, one on each side of the orchestra._]

THE END

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CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

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THE MAID'S FORGIVENESS, a play

A SAUSAGE FROM BOLOGNA, a play

LEARNING AND OTHER ESSAYS

THE TREASON AND DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD, a play for a Greek theatre

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