| (Child) Will it be long before she comes? | |
| (Child) Will it be long before she comes? | |
| (1, 0) 8 | We cannot tell. |
| (1, 0) 9 | We have waited long. |
| (1, 0) 10 | The throne, you see, is empty. |
| (Mother) Sometimes I fear the Queen will not come back to us again. | |
| (Child) And will they all come back when they have found the Queen? | |
| (1, 0) 17 | No, they will not all come back. |
| (Child) Why did she go away from us? | |
| (Child) Why did she go away from us? | |
| (1, 0) 19 | Men drove her out. |
| (Child) But I have heard people say that she is very beautiful and that the world is happy when she sits upon her throne. | |
| (Child) What was it like when the world was happy? | |
| (1, 0) 24 | My son worked with me. |
| (1, 0) 25 | I was old and had knowledge; he was young and had strength. |
| (1, 0) 26 | We laboured side by side. |
| (1, 0) 27 | There is a great joy for men who labour. |
| (1, 0) 28 | It is to see the thought of their mind take shape at last in the work of their hands. |
| (1, 0) 29 | Sometimes I grew weary and remembered that my working days must end; but I looked upon my son, and to myself I said: "When I am taken from the task, he wîll remain and his son after him." |
| (1, 0) 30 | And then I smiled, for I was satisfied. |
| (1, 0) 31 | It ìs a great thing for men to know that the work of the world will not be left undone. |
| (1, 0) 32 | And, little one, when the throne is empty, men are sad, because they must destroy. |
| (Child) {To THE MOTHER.} | |
| (Child) I have heard that men are good and wise. | |
| (1, 0) 57 | No, little one; they only wish to be. |
| (1, 0) 58 | Sometimes, pride walks amongst them in a golden cloak and speaks with swollen words, and then there is an end to goodness and to wisdom, |
| (Maiden) {Looking to the right.} | |
| (Maiden) Here comes one whose face we know. | |
| (1, 0) 61 | Yes; he walks in the public places. |
| (Mother) He may bring news of the great Queen. | |
| (Mother) He may bring news of the great Queen. | |
| (1, 0) 65 | Sir, we greet you. |
| (Man of Doubt) I greet you all. | |
| (Man of Doubt) Men go upon a hundred ways, and a hundred times when they come back, their hands are empty. | |
| (1, 0) 77 | If they do not bring her, tomorrow is but as yesterday. |
| (1, 0) 78 | There is no end to loss, and men's work will be broken for ever. |
| (Man of Doubt) Their work will be broken for ever. | |
| (1, 0) 92 | Look! |
| (1, 0) 93 | A crowd upon the road. |
| (Mother) They come this way! | |
| (Man of Doubt) They are happy for an hour—and they forget. | |
| (1, 0) 103 | My sight is dim. |
| (Mother) {To THE MAIDEN.} | |
| (Child) I didn't know that men and women could be so very happy. | |
| (1, 0) 111 | Tell me. |
| (1, 0) 112 | Who walks before them? |
| (Maiden) One clothed in white! | |
| (Maiden) She smiles, and—oh!—her smile is blessing. | |
| (1, 0) 117 | It is the Queen. |
| (Mother) Yes, the Queen, whose name is Peace! | |
| (Maiden) O God, we thank Thee now; we who love them and are loved! | |
| (1, 0) 121 | O God, we thank Thee now; we who build the world a temple to Thy plan! |
| (Child) O God, the little children thank Thee! | |
| (Child) O God, the little children thank Thee! | |
| (1, 0) 123 | Who walks beside the Queen? |
| (Maiden) Someone who leads her by the hand towards the throne. | |
| (Mother) O Queen, it is our common prayer! | |
| (1, 0) 143 | Without you, we are nothing and the work of our hands is dust! |
| (Queen) O my people, will you not remember? | |
| (Queen) Why do men send me from their midst—only to learn once more their utter need of me? | |
| (1, 0) 151 | O calm, kind Queen, once more we learn it! |
| (Mother) We learn it, and our need is great! | |
| (Queen) He came to seek me by the way of sorrows, where there is always blood upon the stones. | |
| (1, 0) 172 | O Young Man from the bitter way, what shall the old men give you, as you come back from your quest? |
| (Mother) O son of some poor waiting mother, what do you ask of us who have waited for our sons? | |
| (Child) Please—will you let me kiss you? | |
| (1, 0) 179 | Make your demand. |
| (1, 0) 180 | Say now what you would ask of us. |
| (Young Man) To eat no pauper bread. | |
| (Young Man) To sit a little in the sun and talk with friends. | |
| (1, 0) 184 | You do not ask enough. |
| (1, 0) 186 | Friends, is that the whole of his deserving? |
| (Crowd) No! | |
| (Crowd) Let him speak again! | |
| (1, 0) 189 | You went the way of sorrows and found our Queen. |
| (1, 0) 190 | Ask now your heart's desire. |