ROSEI (rising slowly from the bed).

Rosei has woken from his dream ...

CHORUS.

Woken from his dream! The springs and autumns of fifty years
Vanished with all their glory; dazed he rises from the bed.

ROSEI.

Whither are they gone that were so many ...

CHORUS.

“The queens and waiting-ladies? What I thought their voices”

ROSEI.

Were but the whisperings of wind in the trees.