{"id":721,"date":"2013-07-13T01:29:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=721"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:29:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:58","slug":"35-vasavadutta-act-five-scene-2-vol-06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06\/35-vasavadutta-act-five-scene-2-vol-06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06","title":{"rendered":"-35_Vasavadutta-Act Five-Scene-2.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nSCENE II<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n

\n

\n <\/div>\n

\n

\n <\/div>\n

\nThe pleasure-groves of the palace in Ujjayinie.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nGopalaca, Vuthsa, Vicurna; at a distance under the trees Ungarica,
\nVasavadutta and Umba.<\/i><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nVuthsa, the wine is singing in my brain,
\nThe moonlight floods my soul. These are the hours
\nWhen the veil for eye and ear is almost rent
\nAnd we can hear wind-haired Gundharvas sing
\nIn a strange luminous ether. Thou art one,
\nVuthsa, who has escaped the bars and walks
\nSmiling and harping to enchanted men.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>UTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt was your earthly moonlight drew me here
\nAnd thou, Gopalaca, and Vindhya’s hills
\nAnd Vasavadutta. Thou shalt drink with me
\nIn moonlight in Cowsambie.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nVuthsa, when?
\nWhat wild and restless spirit keeps thy feet
\nTonight, Vicurna?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>ICURNA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n‘Tis the wine. I wait.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nFor what?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>ICURNA
\n\t<\/font>(with a harsh laugh)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhy, for the wine to do its work.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhere’s Vasavadutta ? Call her to us here.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWe are not happy if she walks apart.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 305<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tVICURNA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere with the mother underneath the trees.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCall them. Thou, Vuthsa, she and I will drink
\nOne cup of love and pledge our hearts in wine
\nNever to be parted. Thou deceiv’st the days,
\nO lax and laggard lover.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>UTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n‘Tis the last.
\nTomorrow lights another scene.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTis good
\nThat thou inclin’st thy heart. My father grows
\nStern and impatient. This done, all is well.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>UTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll in this poor world cannot have their will;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIts joys are bounded. I submit, it seems.
\nWilt thou incline thy heart, Gopalaca ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo what?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>UTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo this fair moonlight night’s result
\nAnd all that follows after.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEasily<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI promise that.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>UTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll surely will be well.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMunjoolica arrives from the gates; Vicurna<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 306<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nreturning\/row the trees with Ungarica, Vasavadutta
\nand Umba, goes forward to meet her.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tVICURNA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIs’t done?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tMUNJOOLICA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey sprawl half senseless near the gate.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>ICURNA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhole bound and gagged were best. Give Vuthsa word.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe goes towards the gates.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>NGARICA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMunjoolica, is it tonight ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat, madam?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>NGARICA
\n\t<\/font>(striking her lightly on the cheek)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nVicurna rides tonight?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tMUNJOOLICA<\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe rides tonight.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>NGARICA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nLet him not learn, nor any, that I knew.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nShe returns to the others.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tGOPALACA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCome, all you wanderers. Mother, here’s a cup
\nThat thou must bless with thy fair magic hands
\nBefore we drink it.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>NGARICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMay those who drink be one
\nIn heart and great and loving all their days<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 307<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nFavoured by Shiva and by Luxmie blest
\nUntil the end and far beyond.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDrink, Vuthsa.
\nThree hearts meet in this cup.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>NGARICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho drinks this first,
\nHe shall be first and he shall be the bond.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nDrink, sister Vasavadutta, queen of all.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>NGARICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nQueen thou shalt be, my daughter, as in thy heart,
\nSo in thy love and fortunes.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMine the last.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>NGARICA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThou sayest, my son, yet first mid many men.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhatever place, so in this knot ’tis found.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>NGARICA
\n\t<\/font>(embracing Vasavadutta closely)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nForget not thy dear mother in thy bliss.
\nGopalaca, attend me to the house,
\nI have a word for thee, my son.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tG<\/font>OPALACA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI come.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThey go towards the palace.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 308<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tVUTHSA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIs it the moment?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYonder lies the gate.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>UTHSA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nLove! Vasavadutta?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>ASAVADUTTA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nVuthsa! Vuthsa! speak,
\nWhat has been quivering in the air this night ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe takes her in his arms.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>UTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy rapt and rapture far away, O love.
\nLook farewell to thy father’s halls.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>ASAVADUTTA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAlas!
\nWhat is this rashness? Thou art unarmed; the guards
\nWill slay thee.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>UTHSA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFear not! Thou in my arms,
\nOur fates a double shield, thou hast no fear,
\nNor anything this night to think or do
\nSave in the chariot lie between my knees
\nAnd listen to the breezes in thy locks
\nWhistling to thee of far Cowsambie’s groves.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe bears her towards the gate, Vicurna<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\ncrossing him in his return.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>ICURNA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHaste, haste! all’s ready.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nUmba! Umba! here?<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 309<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tU<\/font>MBA
\n\t<\/font>(who comes running up)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nOh, what is this?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>ICURNA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nShould not this girl be bound ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>MBA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nGive rather thy commands.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou’lt face the wrath?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>MBA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nO, all for my dear mistress. If the King
\nSlays me, I shall have lived and died for her
\nFor whom I was born.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHide in the groves until
\nThou hearst a rumour growing from the walls,
\nThen seek the house and save thyself. Till then
\nLet no man find thee.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tU<\/font>MBA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI will lose myself
\nIn the far bushes. O come safely through.
\nCould you not have trusted me in this ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UNJOOLICA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWeep not!
\nI’ll have thee to Cowsambie if thou live.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tV<\/font>ICURNA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nCome, follow, follow. <\/b> He is near the gates.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UNJOOLICA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI to my freedom, she her royal crown!<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 310<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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