DRAMATIS PERSONÆ 

 The Seeker after Truth His Wife His Mother Chorus 

 

 SCENE I 

 The wife and the mother spinning 

 THE WIFE (sings) 

 Love, it is dark among your roses, The face of the moon is turned away, The nightingale is silent and lonely; Lean from your window a little way!— 

 Lean but a little way towards me, Out of the window where jasmines twine, Open the lattice, softly, slowly, Till the light of your eyes shall gladden mine. 

 Love, it is dark among your roses; And how, since the nightingales are fled, Can I tell your heart how my heart is lowly, To touch the ground where your sandals tread? 

 This is your garden; these your flowers; These stars have seen you; these dews have known; And now your eyes and your smile you give me— Give me your love, and be all mine own! 

 

 THE MOTHER 

 Sing that again, the music soothes my ear. 

 

 THE WIFE 

 My husband made it for me ere we wed, And sang it in my garden; I arose And leaned down to him, and my fingers gave To all his kisses. Ah! those days were sweet. 

 

 THE MOTHER 

 Not sweet now? 

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