The Lake in the garden is deep, around the Isle of Jade.
PEARL
As soon as we have conducted your Majesty to the threshold of the tomb we shall repair to the lake-side.
ANOTHER LADY
Deep in the mud, where we shall sleep tranquilly, The Lotus will entwine us in her roots and we shall live again in her flowers.
EMPRESS
[To GOLDEN LOTUS, who is seated to the left, holding in her lap the dying ARROW-BEARER'S head.] And you, Golden Lotus?
GOLDEN LOTUS
Oh, Majesty, receive from here my last greeting——To leave him, to set down his head, forgive me if I have not the courage——
[The trumpets and gongs of the TARTARS are heard without, with a shouting which grows nearer and nearer.]