ISHAK
Be calm, there is nothing.
(The fountain runs red.)
HASSAN
The fountain—the fountain!
ISHAK
Oh! alas! it is pouring blood! Come away.
HASSAN
The Garden is alive!
ISHAK
Come away: it is haunted! Come away: come away! Follow the bells!
(Exeunt in terror.)
(The GHOST of the Artist of the Fountain rises from the fountain itself in pale Byzantine robes.)
FOUNTAIN GHOST The garden to the ghosts. Come forth, new brother and new sister. Come forth while enough of earth's heavy influence remains upon you— to speak and to be seen. Come forth, and those who are past shall dance with those who are to come.
GHOST OF RAFI (With the voice of RAFI, the clothes of RAFI, the broken fetters of RAFI, but pale…as death) We are here, O Shadow of the Fountain.