The first dance is over.
ANGEL.
Shall I dance?
CHORUS.
The dance of Suruga, with music of the East?
Thus was it first danced.
(The ANGEL dances, while the CHORUS sings the words of the dance, an ancient Shintō chant.)
“Why name we
Wide-stretched and everlasting.
The sky of heaven?
Two gods[174] there came of old
And built, upon ten sides shut in,
A measured world for men;
But without limit arched they
The sky above, and named it
Wide-stretched and everlasting.”
ANGEL.
Thus is the Moon-God’s palace:
Its walls are fashioned
With an axe of jade.
CHORUS.