Red Oleanders A Drama in One Act

Professor You mean it's in the air —like the rumours which flush in the colour of the sky or flutter in the dance of the wind ? Nandini I won't say more now. [...] Don't you see the September sun is spreading the glow of the ripenirg corn in the air ? Drunken with the perfumed wine of wind the sky seems to sway among the shivering corn its sunlight trailing on the fields. [...] But can blocks of gold ever answer to the swinging rhythm of your arms in the same way as fields of corn ? Are you not afraid King of handling the dead wealth of the earth ? Voice What is there to fear ? Nandini The living heart of the earth gives22 RED OLEANDERS itself up in love and life and beauty but when you rend its bosom and disturb the dead you bring up with your booty the curse of its [...] The garland of victory may be of kunda hewers the gift of the hand ; but the garland of welcome is of red oleanders the gt;t: of the heart. [...] Voice (from behind the scenes) Why always the same futile request ? Who is that with you ? A pair to Rafij an ? Bishu No King I am the obverse side of Rarijan on which falls the shadow.80 RED OLEANDERS Voice What use has Nandini for you ? Bishu The use which music has for the hollow of the flute.