| (Child) Will it be long before she comes? | |
| (Mother) How many weary days we've stood and watched and waited! | |
| (1, 0) 13 | Mother, we must believe! |
| (1, 0) 14 | Did they not say that, if the young men went upon this quest, then they should find her? |
| (1, 0) 15 | And they have gone. |
| (Child) And will they all come back when they have found the Queen? | |
| (Child) And you were happy, too? | |
| (1, 0) 44 | Yes, little one. |
| (1, 0) 45 | I was happy also. |
| (1, 0) 46 | I walked with my lover in the closing of the day. |
| (1, 0) 47 | I saw the light in his eyes when I came near. |
| (1, 0) 48 | We were chosen, each for each. |
| (1, 0) 49 | We had our own truth and trusted. |
| (1, 0) 50 | We did not know the future, but we had no fear. |
| (1, 0) 51 | It was a way, hidden not by darkness, but by a mist where a white lamp shone. |
| (1, 0) 52 | Oh! |
| (1, 0) 53 | It has been bitter for the lovers, and many such as I have nothing now but memory. |
| (Child) It is a great pity that men drove the Queen away! | |
| (1, 0) 60 | Here comes one whose face we know. |
| (Father) Yes; he walks in the public places. | |
| (Man of Doubt) What was, shall be. | |
| (1, 0) 81 | You speak thus in the market place! |
| (1, 0) 82 | You cloud the sky, when we look towards the sun. |
| (1, 0) 83 | O Man of Doubt, will not there still be tears enough? |
| (1, 0) 84 | Do you not see the people would have her Queen for evermore? |
| (Man of Doubt) Yes; once again the people dream. | |
| (Mother) What sound is that? | |
| (1, 0) 90 | Voices, many joyful voices. |
| (Father) {Looking away left.} | |
| (Mother) They come this way! | |
| (1, 0) 95 | Oh! |
| (1, 0) 96 | If it should be the Queen. |
| (Mother) At last! | |
| (Mother) Tell us —what can you see? | |
| (1, 0) 106 | A crowd of men and women. |
| (1, 0) 107 | And they are glad! |
| (Child) Oh, yes! | |
| (Father) Who walks before them? | |
| (1, 0) 113 | One clothed in white! |
| (1, 0) 114 | Her face is calm and beautiful. |
| (1, 0) 115 | They press about her. |
| (1, 0) 116 | She smiles, and—oh!—her smile is blessing. |
| (Father) It is the Queen. | |
| (Mother) O God, we thank Thee now, we, the mothers of men! | |
| (1, 0) 120 | O God, we thank Thee now; we who love them and are loved! |
| (Father) O God, we thank Thee now; we who build the world a temple to Thy plan! | |
| (Father) Who walks beside the Queen? | |
| (1, 0) 124 | Someone who leads her by the hand towards the throne. |
| (Child) Poor man! | |
| (Mother) Who is it leads her by the hand towards her throne? | |
| (1, 0) 128 | A young man, weary and broken, dressed in a soldier's clothes. |
| (Queen) I come again from exile. | |
| (Mother) We learn it, and our need is great! | |
| (1, 0) 153 | Oh, give us back those smiling days whose joy was greater than we knew! |
| (Queen) All that I have, I give you! | |
| (Mother) O son of some poor waiting mother, what do you ask of us who have waited for our sons? | |
| (1, 0) 174 | O lover of some lonely maid, what shall we give, whose loneliness is done? |