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2018
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OBAA-SAN
I am very lonely. I have lived my lifelong dream of spring and butterflies a single instant—and it is gone.
[She turns to go.
THE GAKI
I feed! I feed!
[The voices of O-Sode and O-Katsu are heard calling Obaa-San.
Here are your friends again.
[O-Sode and O-Katsu come in.
O-SODE-SAN
Hai! Obaa-San, a little lady passed and told us you were lonely.
OBAA-SAN
I am lonely.—But I have always been lonely.
O-SODE-SAN
What has happened?
[The Gaki, hidden, has been triumphant. Suddenly he seems to shrivel as if drawn with rage.
OBAA-SAN
I waited, oh so long—you know.—I opened my arms.—My dream came true.—I sang my lullaby—to my child.—A lover came;—they have gone.
O-KATSU-SAN
She is a-wander in her mind.
OBAA-SAN
I opened my arms here—like this.—She stepped into them as though she had been there always—and now she has gone.—In one short moment I lived my mother-life.
O-SODE-SAN
It was magic! Come, Obaa-San, we'll make some prayers to burn.
O-KATSU-SAN
Some evil ghost.
OBAA-SAN
No! No! Some kindly spirit from the sky-dome came to me.—I have had one moment of happiness complete.—I dreamed and I have known. Now I shall dream again—a greater dream—a greater dream.
[The old women go into the house.
THE GAKI
What! I can not feed! My Lady of the Weeping Willow Tree is gone! Obaa-San has built a circle of happiness about her head. Hai! I shall die in this shape.—I must feed.—Perhaps she tries to trick me.—I shall listen.—Why does she not weep?—Why do they not wail?
[He starts for the house. As he nears it, the voice of Obaa-San is heard crooning the little lullaby:
See, baby, see
The ears of the wolf are long;
Sleep, baby, sleep,
Your father is brave and strong.
THE GAKI (defeated, seems beside himself. Suddenly he looks out and sees the mountain-peak) I'll find them in the bamboo glade. Perhaps I can make unhappiness there. Riki and Aoyagi!
The Curtains Close
ACT II
A Bamboo Glade on the Mountain-side.
[The Gaki comes in.
THE GAKI
This is the glade on the mountain side—the glade where Aoyagi and Riki think to find their happiness. Here must I feed or I shall die in this shape.—Hai!—They come.
[Riki and Aoyagi enter.
RIKI
… and so like every other prince who is a real prince, he charged to the top of the hill before his men; and they, following him, fell upon the enemy and victory was theirs.
AOYAGI
And then—?
RIKI
And then the Princess laid her hand upon her heart.
AOYAGI
Is that all?
RIKI
I am very lonely. I have lived my lifelong dream of spring and butterflies a single instant—and it is gone.
[She turns to go.
THE GAKI
I feed! I feed!
[The voices of O-Sode and O-Katsu are heard calling Obaa-San.
Here are your friends again.
[O-Sode and O-Katsu come in.
O-SODE-SAN
Hai! Obaa-San, a little lady passed and told us you were lonely.
OBAA-SAN
I am lonely.—But I have always been lonely.
O-SODE-SAN
What has happened?
[The Gaki, hidden, has been triumphant. Suddenly he seems to shrivel as if drawn with rage.
OBAA-SAN
I waited, oh so long—you know.—I opened my arms.—My dream came true.—I sang my lullaby—to my child.—A lover came;—they have gone.
O-KATSU-SAN
She is a-wander in her mind.
OBAA-SAN
I opened my arms here—like this.—She stepped into them as though she had been there always—and now she has gone.—In one short moment I lived my mother-life.
O-SODE-SAN
It was magic! Come, Obaa-San, we'll make some prayers to burn.
O-KATSU-SAN
Some evil ghost.
OBAA-SAN
No! No! Some kindly spirit from the sky-dome came to me.—I have had one moment of happiness complete.—I dreamed and I have known. Now I shall dream again—a greater dream—a greater dream.
[The old women go into the house.
THE GAKI
What! I can not feed! My Lady of the Weeping Willow Tree is gone! Obaa-San has built a circle of happiness about her head. Hai! I shall die in this shape.—I must feed.—Perhaps she tries to trick me.—I shall listen.—Why does she not weep?—Why do they not wail?
[He starts for the house. As he nears it, the voice of Obaa-San is heard crooning the little lullaby:
See, baby, see
The ears of the wolf are long;
Sleep, baby, sleep,
Your father is brave and strong.
THE GAKI (defeated, seems beside himself. Suddenly he looks out and sees the mountain-peak) I'll find them in the bamboo glade. Perhaps I can make unhappiness there. Riki and Aoyagi!
The Curtains Close
ACT II
A Bamboo Glade on the Mountain-side.
[The Gaki comes in.
THE GAKI
This is the glade on the mountain side—the glade where Aoyagi and Riki think to find their happiness. Here must I feed or I shall die in this shape.—Hai!—They come.
[Riki and Aoyagi enter.
RIKI
… and so like every other prince who is a real prince, he charged to the top of the hill before his men; and they, following him, fell upon the enemy and victory was theirs.
AOYAGI
And then—?
RIKI
And then the Princess laid her hand upon her heart.
AOYAGI
Is that all?
RIKI
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