[_The wailing of women outside has risen in a strain of wild and profound melancholy. It is broken by a woman’s scream._] THE VOICE Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For if they do these things in a green tree what shall be done in the dry? [_THE MOCKER WITH THE CROWN OF THORNS enters from right._] THE MOCKER WITH THE CROWN OF THORNS Ho, another king, another saviour. Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Let him be crowned. Blessed are the meek. [_He snatches off SIMON’S head-dress, throwing it on the ground. He pretends to place the thorn crown on SIMON’S head, and then throws it contemptuously at his feet. The legionaries enter with the cross._] THE VOICE If any man will come after me let him take up the cross and follow me. [_The legionaries place the cross upon SIMON. He bends beneath it and picking up the crown of thorns places it upon his head._] SIMON I will wear this, I will bear this till he comes into his own. CURTAIN Printed in the United States of America. The following pages contain advertisements of other Macmillan plays. _THE PLAYS OF SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE_ =The Cycle of Spring=: A Play _Cloth, 12mo, $1.25; leather, $1.75_ “All the joy, the buoyancy, the resilience, the indomitable and irrepressible hopefulness of Youth are compacted in the lines of the play. The keynote is sounded, with subtle symbolism, in the Prelude, in which the King ranks above all matters of State or of Humanity the circumstances that two gray hairs had made their appearance behind the ear that morning.... Dramatic power, philosophy, and lyric charm are brilliantly blended in a work of art that has the freshness and the promise of its theme.”—_New York Tribune._ =Chitra=: A Play in One Act _Cloth, $1.00; leather, $1.75_ “He has given us the soul of the East disembodied of its sensuality, and within it shines the most perfect tribute to true womanhood and its claims.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._ “The play is told with the simplicity and wonder of imagery always characteristic of Rabindranath Tagore.”—_Cleveland Plain Dealer._ =The King of the Dark Chamber= _Cloth, $1.25; leather, $1.75_ “The most careless reader can hardly proceed far into these inspired pages without realizing that he is in the presence of holy things—of an allegory of the soul as has not before been told in the English tongue.”—_Chicago Evening Post._ =The Post Office= _Cloth, $1.00; limp leather, $1.75_ “Once more Tagore demonstrates the universality of his genius; once more he shows how art and true feeling know no racial and religious lines.”—_Kentucky Post._ _DRAMAS BY LEWIS V. LEDOUX_ =Yzdra=: A Tragedy in Three Acts