To hurry to their hidden happiness

Withholds them now? Have the ever-living ones

A meaning in that circling overhead?

But what’s the meaning? [He cries out.] Why do you linger there?

Why do you not run to your desire,

Now that you have happy winged bodies?

[His voice sinks again.

Being too busy in the air and the high air,

They cannot hear my voice; but what’s the meaning?

[The SAILORS have returned. DECTORA is with them. She is dressed in pale green, with copper ornaments on her dress, and has a copper crown upon her head. Her hair is dull red.