[She weeps.]
Enter LILY.
Lily. Mother, have you been naughty? Mother, dear!
[Pulling her hand from her face.]
SCENE VII.—Julian's room. Noon. LILIA at work; LILY playing in a closet.
Lily
(running up to her mother).
Sing me a little song; please, mother dear.
[LILIA, looking off her work, and thinking with
fixed eyes for a few moments, sings.]
SONG.
Once I was a child,
Oimè!
Full of frolic wild;
Oimè!
All the stars for glancing,
All the earth for dancing;
Oimè! Oimè!
When I ran about,
Oimè!
All the flowers came out,
Oimè!
Here and there like stray things,
Just to be my playthings.
Oimè! Oimè!