SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF

[In passionate grief.]

The King is dead!

BLONDEL

[In yet more passionate joy and triumph.]

The great King lives!

[Then more tenderly.]

Will you not come and look for Him with me?

[They go slowly together through the forest and are lost to sight. Blondel's voice is heard singing the third stanza of the song in the distance, further and further away.]

"Death? What is Death?" he cried.
"I must ride on!"