How joy was found : $b a fantasyHutchison, Isobel Wylie
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How joy was found : $b a fantasy
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie
English drama -- Scottish authors; Verse drama
I don’t see how a violet’s shown
You that. Tell me it all again.
CLIMBER
[_Jumping up, with a nervous laugh._]
Oh dear! I wish I could explain
Better. But it’s the sort of thing
You’ll have to find alone. I’m off to bring
The others. I’ll be back in a minute.
[_She runs away, with a very red face. Finn yawns, sighs,
and, picking a violet, sniffs and sniffs again._]
FINN
Delicious! I believe there’s something in it!
[_He puts the violet in his buttonhole._]
Even if it isn’t much
It’s something I could almost touch
A morsel of just now.
[_Enter the Listener, whistling, and chipping himself a
whistle out of an alder branch._]
FINN
Hallo! Where are the others?
LISTENER
Patching up the boat a bit in smothers
Of spray. The wind seems blowing this way.
[_He waves his hand in the direction in which the Climber
has gone._]
Still feeling sick?
FINN
Certainly not. I wasn’t sick!
LISTENER
Oh! I thought that was why
You wouldn’t come down to tea,
When you said you wished we’d let you die.
FINN
[_Hastily._]
Certainly not!
LISTENER
Then why——
FINN
[_Hurriedly._]
There’s a sort of spell on me.
I can’t consider common stuff like tea
Until I have found the one that considers me.
LISTENER
[_Sympathetically._]
I say! How beastly! Worse than being in love.
FINN
[_Indignantly._]
Not at all! It’s not the least the same.
LISTENER
[_Innocently._]
Why? What’s the difference?
FINN
[_Crossly._]
Oh, go away! How should I know?
LISTENER
Would you like to hear what I heard up above
The tree-tops, before I came
Out of the wood?
FINN
[_Crossly._]
Not unless it’s easily understood.
LISTENER
[_Cheerily._]
Oh yes!
It’s the sort of thing that any child could guess.
[_He begins to pipe a very cheery little tune, and then
stops and looks at Finn enquiringly._]
FINN
[_Brightening._]
That’s not bad. Go on!
LISTENER
[_Beginning to sing._]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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