CHILDREN
[trying on theirs and capering]
O Jan!—O Jan!
Oh! see my shoes!
[The PIPER looks at JAN.]
PIPER
Hey day, what now?
JAN
I wish. . .
PIPER
What do you wish? Wish for it!—It shall come.
[JAN pulls him closer and speaks shyly.]
JAN
I wish—that I could show them—to the Man,
The Lonely Man.
[The PIPER looks at him and backs away; sits down helplessly and looks
at him again.
Oh, can I?—
PIPER
Thou!—'T would make me a proud man.
JAN
Oh! it would make Him smile!
[The Children dance and caper. TRUDE wakes up and joins them. Sound of distant chanting again.
TRUDE
I had a dream!