The Moon Maiden’s Song

Sleep! Cast thy canopy
    Over this sleeper’s brain,
  Dim grow his memory,
    When he awake again.

Love stays a summer night,
    Till lights of morning come;
  Then takes her wingèd flight
    Back to her starry home.

Sleep! Yet thy days are mine;
    Love’s seal is over thee:
  Far though my ways from thine,
    Dim though thy memory.

Love stays a summer night,
    Till lights of morning come;
  Then takes her winged flight
    Back to her starry home.

[When the song is finished, the curtain falls upon Pierrot sleeping.]

The End