Show The King Is Dead By HERBERT KAUFMAN THE THE furies were his godparents and they showered the royal cradle with black gifts His very mother lu lusting ting for power behind the throne deliberately engineered the weakening of his character by expo exposing ing him to the tile perils penis of organized court deI de de- I bauch ry He survived the experience experienc tp to rule Hungary Austria for forI sixty-eight sixty years to endure such as no monarch ever knew I Death made a playground of the palace brother palace brother son wife sister in violence He niece nephew and consort by turn perished reigned than any ki king g and in the the evening of his his life was fated to sign the document which invited the supreme disaster of history Then died without an answer to the blood riddle His w was s the sorest heart the saddest soul in the world Poor old Francis Joseph What beggar would be king upon such terms Copyright 1916 by Herbert Kaufman Gre Great Britain and all other ri rights reserved |