The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck
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SCENE 2.--_The Graveyard_.
_It is night. The moon is shining on a country graveyard.. Numerous tombstones, grassy mounds, wooden crosses, stone slabs, etc_. TYLTYL _and_ MYTYL _are standing by a short stone pillar_. MYTYL I am frightened!... TYLTYL (_not too much at his ease_) I am never frightened.... MYTYL I say, are the dead wicked?... TYLTYL Why, no, they're not alive!... MYTYL Have you ever seen one?... TYLTYL Yes, once, long ago, when I was very young.... MYTYL What was it like, say?... TYLTYL Quite white, very still and very cold and it didn't talk.... |
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