The evergreen tree

by Percy MacKaye

THE EVERGREEN TREE

FIRST ACTION
(“Who Keepeth Watch?”)

STAGE A: THE PLACE OF OUTCASTS

It is night.

In a dark place of the wilderness, a tree is growing.

Before it is an open space on a knoll, from which—left and right—a path leads down away into the desert.

At one side, in shadow, sit ELF and GNOME.

At centre, in starlight, stands TREE, half emerged from dim boughs.