Ama Monologue from The Immortal Lure

From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice

female · dramatic · 1:18 min

And 'tis because This evil priest Stands in the door of your heart. (O-Ume: Will you revile him?) Cursed be he! (O-Ume: Ama!) I pray it! [ (Rises slowly.) And curst he shall be. [ (O-Ume stares trembling.) For, O blind one, By him blinded, Do you not know The people have heard How he has bid you Cast away from you The gods of your house? The blessed Buddha And all the tablets Kept, ancestral? Ai, they have heard And tonight have risen! This night of the dead They have gone forth, With Sanko to lead them-- Gone to tear down The house of the priest! Gone to destroy The image he worships! Gone to---- O-Ume (stricken). Ama! [ (Shrinks from her and then speaks wanly.) Never is there Trust in any? Only faith that fades? This was known-- But kept from me, Kept in silence, Kept for Sanko?... O lord Buddha, Thou, or Christ, Is there peril?---- [ (Turns on her.) You have done ill!

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