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TO

ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES

'WILD NATURE'S HUMAN SYMPATHIZER'

IN ADMIRATION OF HIS DAUNTLESS

SERVICE TO THE BIRDS

      PERSONS OF THE MASQUE [Footnote: 1Kb ] The complete programme of the original production of the masque, as first enacted at Meriden, New Hampshire, by members of the Cornish Colony and the Meriden Bird Club, is printed in the AFTERWORD of this volume.in the order of their appearance
    • QUERCUS, faun
    • ALWYN, poet
    • SHY, naturalist
    • TACITA, dryad
    • ORNIS, bird spirit
    • STARK, plume hunter
    • Hunter Attendants of Stark
    • Many species of birds — in human form, garbed symbolically
      PARTICIPANTS IN PANTOMIME
    • Hunter Attendants of Stark
    • Many species of birds — in human form, garbed symbolically
SCENE

The sylvan glade of a bird sanctuary .

THE PRELUDE

Wandering in the quiet of the bird sanctuary, a little girl hears the voice of a hermit thrush, and meditates this song:
THE SONG

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Passing on deeper into the wood, the little girl thinks dreamily of all wild birds and the wrongs done to them by their human brothers and sisters .

Out of her reverie grows the Masque which follows .

THE MASQUE

I

Dawn .

The woods are silent, save for bird pipings .

In the background, verdure of young pines and ancient boles of oaks form the dim-pillared entrance to a forest shrine .

Artfully placed on tree trunk and bough are nest boxes of bark .

On one side stands a low weathercock food-house; on the other, a tall martin-house pole .

In the shade of a great oak glimmers the shallow pool of a bird bath .

Peeping at this from behind the oak, appears, vanishes and appears again the horned head of QUERCUS, a faun .

Stealing forth , QUERCUS approaches the pool, bearing in one hand an enormous pitcher plant .

Peering upward among the boughs, he raises his voice in quaint falsetto, and sings .

QUERCUS

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From his pitcher plant QUERCUS pours into the bird bath. Skipping then to a little swinging bird-house, he sprinkles its shelf with seed from a pouch. Here he pauses dreamily; furtively takes out and fingers a pipe; blows a few notes, pauses, starts, puts it quickly away, stoops his ear to the ground, springs away to the oak, and snatches an ivied staff which stands against the trunk. The staff is designed like a martin-house pole in miniature. Placing himself on guard where a foot-path enters the glade, he calls:

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A VOICE
Outside

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QUERCUS

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THE VOICE

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QUERCUS

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II
QUERCUS. ALWYN.

[A YOUNG MAN enters, pausing in the path
THE MAN

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS

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Flourishing his staff

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN
Pointing at QUERCUS' staff

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QUERCUS

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Pointing toward a tall martin-house pole

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS

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With lowered voice, he looks around warily

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Taking out his pipe, he plays again a few languorous strains, but breaks off abruptly

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III
SHY. QUERCUS. ALWYN.

SHY
Enters, carrying a nest-box

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He greets ALWYN.]

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ALWYN
Smiling

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SHY

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ALWYN
Patting QUERCUS' shoulder

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS
Holding it behind him

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ALWYN

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In pantomime, he demands and receives the pipe from QUERCUS. SHY then addresses QUERCUS.]
SHY

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QUERCUS

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SHY

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QUERCUS

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SHY

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QUERCUS

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SHY

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QUERCUS

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He nods shrewdly

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Grinning

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SHY

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QUERCUS

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SHY

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QUERCUS

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ALWYN

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SHY

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ALWYN

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SHY

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QUERCUS

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SHY

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QUERCUS
Skipping to the maple tree

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Climbing among the branches, he disappears, whistling bird-notes

IV
ALWYN. SHY.

ALWYN

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SHY

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ALWYN

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SHY

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ALWYN

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SHY

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ALWYN

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SHY

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ALWYN
Eagerly

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SHY

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ALWYN

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SHY

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ALWYN

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SHY

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ALWYN

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SHY

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ALWYN

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SHY

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ALWYN

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They sit upon a log and listen

V
TACITA. ALWYN. SHY.

ALWYN
Dreamily, the fluting of birds sounds in the forest. Dimly from the background TACITA appears. With steps of reverie, she approaches, and pauses before them . looks up and, touching SHY'S arm, speaks low

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SHY

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ALWYN

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To mysterious music , TACITA treads a dance of invocation, appealing in pantomime to the unseen spirit of wings, which flits and sings and broods in the boughs above her . ALWYN and SHY watch her, rapt and expectant .

Suddenly a sharp gun-shot sounds, shivering the music, which ceases. Through the boughs, a bird falls fluttering to the earth

VI
ORNIS. ALWYN. SHY.

With a gesture of startled wildness , TACITA breaks abruptly from her rhythmic motions, and flees into the wood, while simultaneously from the other side there enters, swift but staggering , ORNIS — a maiden, garbed symbolically as a bird. On one of her wing-like sleeves blood shows. With shrill, melodious cry, she flutters forward .
ORNIS

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Swaying, she falls to the ground . ALWYN and SHY spring toward her
ALWYN

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SHY
At ORNIS' side

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ALWYN

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SHY

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Seeking to lift her

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ORNIS
Droops, moaning

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SHY

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ALWYN
Hastening off

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SHY
Soothingly strokes ORNIS' arm and shoulder

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ORNIS
Moans dazedly

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QUERCUS
Reëntering with ALWYN.]

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SHY
Pointing

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ALWYN

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QUERCUS
Dipping his plant pitcher, hastens with it to SHY.]

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SHY

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QUERCUS
Sprinkling water upon ORNIS, sings gaily ].

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[ORNIS revives
SHY
Assisting her

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ALWYN
Bending over her, calls low

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ORNIS

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ALWYN

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ORNIS
Looking from one to the other

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SHY

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ORNIS

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ALWYN

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ORNIS
Rising in glad wonder

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ALWYN

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ORNIS

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ALWYN

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ORNIS
With wonder

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Curiously

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ALWYN

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ORNIS
Turning eagerly from one to the other

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SHY
Smiling

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ORNIS

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QUERCUS
Skipping with a bow

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ORNIS
Laughing joyously

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ALWYN

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ORNIS

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To SHY.]

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To QUERCUS.]

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[TACITA appears remotely

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A crashing resounds in the thicket . TACITA disappears

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SHY

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ORNIS

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ALWYN

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ORNIS

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ALWYN
Calling off scene

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QUERCUS
With excited gestures

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ORNIS
Suddenly recoiling with a cry

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She flies to their protection . QUERCUS also scampers back fearfully, and hides

VII
STARK. ORNIS. ALWYN. SHY.

Enter STARK, in garb of a hunter. He wears a tawny leopard's skin, and his head is gorgeously plumed. Behind him, two panting dogs are held in leash by attendants . STARK rushes toward ORNIS, passes her oblivious, and seizes up the fallen bird
STARK

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The ATTENDANTS withdraw with the hounds
ORNIS
As STARK grasps the bird, clutches her own side in pain

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STARK

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He thrusts the bird into his game pouch. Turning to leave, he sees ALWYN and SHY, and greets them gaily

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SHY
Quietly

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STARK
With a laugh

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SHY

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STARK

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SHY

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STARK

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Touching his pouch, he winks

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SHY

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He points at ORNIS.]
STARK
Looking

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ALWYN

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STARK

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ALWYN

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ORNIS
Drawing back in dread

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STARK

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ALWYN

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STARK

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QUERCUS
Peeping toward SHY from the bushes

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SHY
To STARK.]

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STARK

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ALWYN

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STARK

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ALWYN

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STARK
Who has listened with half-amused curiosity

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ALWYN

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SHY

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[QUERCUS goes out
STARK

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ALWYN

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STARK

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ALWYN

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STARK

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ALWYN

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STARK

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He sits on the log beside ALWYN. ORNIS still stands apart, under SHY'S protection . QUERCUS enters, beckoning backward into the wood

VIII
TACITA. ALWYN. ORNIS. STARK. (SHY. QUERCUS.)

ALWYN

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Soft music sounds, various and elusive in its rhythmic themes . TACITA approaches STARK, and weaves about him a dance of revelation, lulling, charming, luring him by the appeal of numberless wing-swayings and bird-dartings, for which the music suggests the song-notes. During her dance , STARK rises, bewildered, and is gradually lured and led by her toward ORNIS, before whom — at the consummation of the dance — he stands, staring
STARK
Rising, speaks to the music

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[TACITA disappears . STARK beholds ORNIS.]

IX
STARK. ORNIS. (ALWYN. QUERCUS. SHY.)

STARK

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ORNIS
Appealing with half-fearful affection

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STARK
With sudden cry and gesture

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From his shoulder he looses the net, and flings it over ORNIS, seizing the meshes

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ORNIS
Struggling

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SHY
Extricating her

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ALWYN
Seizing STARK.]

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ORNIS

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STARK
Dropping his net

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ORNIS

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STARK
Fascinated

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ORNIS

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STARK
With altered tone of yearning

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ORNIS

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STARK
Glancing at his gun

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Flinging it from him

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ORNIS

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ALWYN
Drawing near

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He takes STARK'S right hand
SHY
Taking his left

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STARK
Pressing their hands

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SHY
Whispering to the faun

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QUERCUS

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He leaps away
ORNIS
As STARK tears off his headdress of plumes

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STARK

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He hangs the headdress on a tree

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Turning to ALWYN and SHY.]

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ALWYN

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STARK

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SHY

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Enter QUERCUS and TACITA.]

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TACITA. QUERCUS. STARK. ORNIS. SHY. ALWYN.

STARK
To ORNIS.]

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ORNIS

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QUERCUS
Bounding forward

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ALWYN
Taking from his pouch QUERCUS' pipe

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[ALWYN puts the pipe to his lips, while QUERCUS sings to it, calling to the birds. At the end , QUERCUS begs in pantomime for the pipe which ALWYN, smiling, restores to him
QUERCUS

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While QUERCUS calls, from all sides Birds of many species and colors — like ORNIS human in form — gather, and peer from the edges of the scene. To these TACITA now beckons, and by her gesture summons to her dance, while QUERCUS plays joyously on his pipe
ORNIS

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[TACITA first dances alone, then with QUERCUS; then, inviting and leading them all in pied procession, she marshals all away into her woodland shrine
FINIS
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