Cale Rice - Yolanda of Cyprus

Is it not so?

Yolanda. No, no. The tears of women

Come as the air and sighing of the night,

We know not whence or why.

Amaury. Often, perhaps.

I am not skilled to tell. But never these!

They are of trouble known.

Yolanda. Yet now forget them.

Amaury. It will not leave my heart that somehow – how

I cannot fathom – Camarin —

Yolanda ( lightly, to stop him ). No farther!

Amaury. That Camarin of Paphos is their cause. —

Tell me —

Yolanda. Yes, that I love thee!

Amaury. Tell me —

Yolanda. Love thee!

As sea the sky! and as the sky the wind!

And as the wind the forest! As the forest —

What does the forest love, Amaury? I

Can think of nothing!

Amaury. Tell me then you have

Never a moment of you yielded to him,

That never he has touched too long this hand —

Till evermore he must, even as I —

Nor once into your eyes too deep has gazed!

You falter? darken?

Yolanda. Would he ne'er had come

Into these halls! that it were beautiful,

Holy to hate him as the Lost can hate.

Amaury. But 'tis not?

Yolanda. God shall judge him.

Amaury. And not you?

Yolanda. Though he is weak, there is within him —

Amaury. That

Which women trust? and you?

[Berengere enters. He turns to her.

Mother?

Berengere. A runner,

A soldier of your troop within the forts

Has come with word.

Amaury ( starting ). Mother!

Berengere. It is ill news?

I've seen that battle-light in you before.

'Tis of the Saracens? you ride to-night

Into their peril?

Amaury. Come, the word, the word!

Berengere. Only this token.

Amaury. The spur? the spur? ( Takes it. ) They then

Are landing!

Yolanda. How, Amaury; tell your meaning!

Amaury. The galleys of the Saracens have found

Anchor and land to-night near Keryneia.

My troops are ready and await me —

So I must speed.

Yolanda ( with strange terror

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