The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck
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page 77 of 198 (38%)
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Yes, I would never have believed.... I had never seen.... And my hands are
frozen.... NIGHT It will be worse presently if you go on.... TYLTYL (_going to the next door_) And this one?... Is this terrible also?... NIGHT No; there is a little of everything here.... It is where I keep the unemployed Stars, my personal Perfumes, a few Glimmers that belong to me, such as Will-o'-the-Wisps, Glow-worms and Fireflies, also the Dew, the Song of the Nightingales and so on.... TYLTYL Just so, the Stars, the Song of the Nightingales.... This must be the door.... NIGHT Open it, if you like; there Is nothing very bad inside.... (TYLTYL _throws the door wide open. The_ STARS, _in the shape of beautiful young girls veiled in many-coloured radiancy, escape from their prison, disperse over the hall and form graceful groups on the steps and around the columns, bathed in a sort of luminous penumbra. The_ PERFUMES OF THE NIGHT, _who are almost invisible, the_ WILL-O'-THE-WISPS, _the_ FIREFLIES _and the transparent_ DEW _join them, while the_ SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALES _streams from the cavern and floods the Palace of_ NIGHT.) |
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