GRANDFATHER. "Gap," do you say! Why, the whole country is all
filled and crammed and packed with the King: and you call him a
"gap"! Why,he has made every one of us a crowned King!

SINGS.

/*
We are all Kings in the kingdom of our King.
Were it not so, how could we hope in our heart to meet him!
We do what we like, yet we do what he likes;
We are not bound with the chain of fear at the feet of a slave-
owning King.
Were it not so, how could we hope in our heart to meet him!
Our King honours each one of us, thus honours his own very
self.
No littleness can keep us shut up in its walls of untruth for
aye.
Were it not so, how could we have hope in our heart to meet
him!
We struggle and dig our own path, thus reach his path at the
end.
We can never get lost in the abyss of dark night.
Were it not so, how could we hope in our heart to meet him!
*/

THIRD CITIZEN. But, really, I cannot stand the absurd things
people say about our King simply because he is not seen in
public.

FIRST CITIZEN. Just fancy! Any one libelling me can be