One kiss!
Oh, clear bright eyes, dear heavens of sweeter stars,
Where angels play, and your own sweeter soul
Smiles like a child into the face of God,
Good-night! Good-night!
[Marian goes into the hut. The door is shut. Robin goes to the mouth of the cave and throws himself down on a couch of deerskins. The light grows dimly rich and fairy-like.]
SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF
[Rising to his knees.]
Here comes the little cloud!
[A little moonlit cloud comes floating down between the tree-tops into the glade. Titania is seen reposing upon it. She steps to earth. The cloud melts away.]
How blows the wind from fairyland, Titania?
TITANIA
Shadow-of-a-Leaf, the wicked queen has heard
Your master's plan for saving poor Will Scarlet.
She knows Maid Marian will be left alone,
Unguarded in these woods. The wicked Prince
Will steal upon her loneliness. He plots
To carry her away.
SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF