Ama Monologue from The Immortal Lure

From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice

female · contemplative · 57 sec

And a girl's mind Is like the dawn mist-- Knowing not whither To rest or wander-- Until, perchance, It clings to Fuji, To Fuji mountain, Lord of the air! The mind of a girl... straying! And what is O-Ume's?... whose? (O-Ume: It is O-Ume's!) Ai! Not Sanko's!... But were I she, O-Ume the fair, O-Ume the mist Of happy karmas, Sanko should be My Fuji mountain. Him would I cling to, Nor would I hunger To stray far from him With a white priest! To stray far from him To foreign gods That hang on a cross. [ (Again bowing.) Is he not strong? (O-Ume: Be silent! The lips of the old! The lips of the old!) Is he not brave?

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