WIFE.
Is this a dream or is it real?
(She clings to the daughter, wailing.)
PRIEST.
Because the time had come
The Priest and his men
Stood waiting on the shore
CHORUS.
They decked the boat with ribands
And upon a bed of water-herbs
They laid the maiden of the Pool.
PRIEST.
The priest pulled the ribands
And spoke the words of prayer.
[In the second part of the play the dragon of the Pool is appeased and the girl restored to life.]