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SCENE IV
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SCENE.—A wood near the Castle, as in Scene II. A group of PEASANTS pass.

FIRST PEASANT

I have seen silver and copper, but not gold.

SECOND PEASANT

It’s yellow and it shines.

FIRST PEASANT

It’s beautiful.

The most beautiful thing under the sun,

That’s what I’ve heard.

THIRD PEASANT

I have seen gold enough.

FOURTH PEASANT

I would not say that it’s so beautiful.

FIRST PEASANT

But doesn’t a gold piece glitter like the sun?

That’s what my father, who’d seen better days,

Told me when I was but a little boy—

So high—so high, it’s shining like the sun,

Round and shining, that is what he said.

SECOND PEASANT

There’s nothing in the world it cannot buy.

FIRST PEASANT

They’ve bags and bags of it.

(They go out. The two MERCHANTS follow silently. Then ALEEL passes over the stage singing.)

ALEEL

Impetuous heart be still, be still,

Your sorrowful love can never be told,

Cover it up with a lonely tune.

He who could bend all things to His will

Has covered the door of the infinite fol

With the pale stars and the wandering moon.