Quivers agleam, and all the east is white;
While in the willow song begins anew."
"When Love has perished, can there yet be light?"
II.
AVERLAINE AND ARKELD.
1.
ARKELD: Oh, why did you lift your eyes to mine?
Oh, why did you lift your drooping head?
AVERLAINE: The tangled threads of the fates entwine
Our hearts that follow as children led.
ARKELD: From the utmost ends of the earth we came,