141
Crashing athwart your dainty passionless play,
As when there peals the solemn organ-blast
Sonorous, of the deep Autumnal wind
Dirge of cicala and of butterfly
Drowning the languid songs of Summertide!
(Sylvie retires up stage, shrugging her shoulders. During Ombrage's song Hou-Ché approaches him.)
STAR-GAZER'S SONG.
Ombrage.(Sings):
Star-stricken-constellation-cross'd
I call to the clear unanswering sky,
'Where lurks my foe, inimical stars?
Silver Procyon, ruby Mars?
A gem of the glittering galaxy?'
