SCENE V.
LESZEK, THE PEOPLE, THE BARD, RZEWNA, MAIDENS.
RZEWNA.
The mournful train of Wanda follows me; Already we had ta’en the road to Cracow, But without you, ye fathers of the land, We would not bear our burden to the city, Our steps retraced, to you we now confide The precious relics of our martyred queen!
[_The Funeral passes along the Stage._
CHORUS OF THE PEOPLE.
Save us, her people, how few beside Will honour the motive for which she died! How few our Wanda will understand, In offering her life for her fatherland!
CHORUS OF MAIDENS.
Wanda! Wanda! shall ever our watchword be, Wanda, martyr and priestess of liberty; Should time ever tarnish our virtue’s pure gold, So lovingly cherish’d, so precious of old, Should maidenly modesty slacken her sway, Should gentleness vanish, and meekness decay, All, all shall revive in their glory again, As the summer-dried verdure, ’neath soft-gushing rain, When the harp-strings shall thrill to our Wanda’s name, When echoes the lute to the mournful sound, Our Wanda reposes ’neath Polish ground.
BARD.
Last sad home, Fronting the tumulus where rests the father, For this, his peerless daughter, we will rear Its likeness, since their memories blend in one; Listen, my countrymen! The dreadful future-- Dreadful, though glorious,--yet shall give to Cracow A third sad sepulchre, most drear possession! Three grassy funeral mounds, in which are hid The hopes, the sorrows, and the fame of Poland. Long shall these two in mournful grandeur stand, Altars to fear of gods and love of men, Till ancient virtue darken towards its setting: An awful martyrdom awaits our country, And when the tumult wild of battle ceases, Through the clear’d air, and ’mid the rigid stillness, The third last witness shall be seen uprising! Yet spring shall follow in the wake of winter, And through the virtue pure of Poland’s daughters, Swaying, unconsciously, her hardy sons, Once more shall they arise and prove their valour; Our fatherland shall rouse to second life, And thus the evil spell shall disappear, Which long o’erwhelm’d her with infernal blight. Thus, thus decrees the certain voice of fate, Through the unworthy lips of me, your bard: We minstrels are the heralds of the gods. In the sad prelude of the oracle Lose not the consolation which succeeds: Listen, ye mourners at the tomb of Krakus, For him and for his daughter, on the verge Of the far future’s dim horizon glancing, I see a star which rays out beams of hope! List! and your bard shall read its mystic meaning: “_From the dark earth the golden corn shall spring._”
LESZEK.
Now let us seek a spot the bard shall choose, Meet to receive our Wanda’s precious clay!
CHORUS OF MAIDENS.
’Mid the flowers of Poland our Wanda shall rest, As a seed-corn of virtue her mem’ry is blest; It will bud, it will blossom, with sweetest perfume, And her glorious example for ages illume, Teaching childlike obedience, modesty pure, Fear of gods, love to men, truth and faith to endure; And to our redemption devoting the song, Wanda slumbers the flowers of Poland among: From the seed which to earth we now weeping confide, The bright corn shall spring in its glory and pride.
[_The Curtain falls._
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