TRACKER [_Pulling at the Hand._] Drop it, I say, drop it! MARKSMAN [_Intervening sternly._] Stop it! [_The Tracker and the Carpenter fling out after Finn._] THIEF [_To Marksman._] I’ll follow them. I musn’t be inhuman, They’ll certainly get lost without a woman. MARKSMAN Take care, they’ve gone to Hell. THIEF [_Quietly indicating the Climber._] Look after this child well, And I will steal all Heaven before you can tell. LISTENER [_Eagerly._] What fun! May I come too? THIEF [_Pointing to the Climber._] Not yet, she’s need of you. [_Exit Thief._] LISTENER [_Coming forward and gazing up at the hole in the roof with his hands on his knees._] Well, that was a clean sweep! [_To Climber._] I say, don’t weep! MARKSMAN [_With his finger on his lips._] Hush! She’s saying her prayers! LISTENER [_Abashed and embarrassed._] Oh, sorry! [_He crosses to the window and leans out, and then softly beckons to the Gripper. The Marksman is sitting quietly in Finn’s chair by the fire._] LISTENER [_To Gripper, speaking softly not to disturb the Climber._] Look at the sky, and that green stretch of clear Behind the Bidean! There’s really no night here. [_He sits astride the window whistling softly, and then begins to sing this song under his breath._] I had a vision of Hope. She came to me Long before morning came, long ere the day Had folded night in her bosom and gathered away The stars in her brightness; I saw as it were a whiteness Like a shimmer on the sea; Long before morning broke She awoke And came to me. There are some who never see her, There are some who never hear Her whisper at their ear. I was awake and heard Before the thrushes stirred. Deep in her heart she showed me, Long before it was spring, A lovely thing. All the April bulbs unsleeping, Beneath the garden keeping Watch for the dawn, All the eyes of the daisies wide-awake under the lawn. There are some who will not trust her, There are some who blindly thrust her Out of sight Into the solitary night. Grievous souls! They do not know That her lovely sign is true: I listened and I knew. MARKSMAN That’s good enough! [_Climber springs up lightly._]