ROSEI.
Go circling, magic cup,
CHORUS.
Circling from hand to hand;[155]
As at the Feast of Floating Cups[156]
Hands thrust from damask sleeves detain
The goblet whirling in the eager stream;
Now launched, now landed![157]
Oh merry flashing light, that shall endure
Long as the Silver Chalice[158] circles space.
BOY DANCER.
The white chrysanthem-dew,
CHORUS.
“The dew of the flowers dripping day by day
In how many thousand years
Will it have grown into a pool?”[159]
It shall not fail, it shall not fail,
The fountain of our Immortality;
He draws, and yet it wells;
He drinks, and to his taste it is as sweet
As the Gods’ deathless food.
His heart grows airy; day and night
In unimagined revel, incomparable pride and glory
Eternally shall pass.
(End of the BOY DANCER’S dance. ROSEI, who has been watching this dance, now springs up in ecstasy to dance the Gaku or Court Dance.)