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+      The Acorn-planter, by Jack London
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+
+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Acorn-Planter, by Jack London
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Acorn-Planter
+       A California Forest Play (1916)
+
+Author: Jack London
+
+Release Date: July 19, 2007 [EBook #22104]
+Last Updated: December 10, 2012
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ACORN-PLANTER ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      THE ACORN-PLANTER
+    </h1>
+    <h4>
+      A California Forest Play<br /> Planned To Be Sung By Efficient Singers<br />
+      Accompanied By A Capable Orchestra
+    </h4>
+    <h2>
+      By Jack London
+    </h2>
+    <h3>
+      1916
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      Contents
+    </h2>
+    <table summary="" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto">
+      <tr>
+        <td>
+          <p class="toc">
+            <a href="#link2H_4_0001"> ARGUMENT </a>
+          </p>
+          <p class="toc">
+            <a href="#link2H_PROL"> PROLOGUE </a>
+          </p>
+          <p class="toc">
+            <a href="#linkact1"> ACT I. </a>
+          </p>
+          <p class="toc">
+            <a href="#link2H_4_0003"> ACT II. </a>
+          </p>
+          <p class="toc">
+            <a href="#link2H_EPIL"> EPILOGUE </a>
+          </p>
+        </td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      ARGUMENT
+    </h2>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     In the morning of the world, while his tribe
+     makes its camp for the night in a grove, Red
+     Cloud, the first man of men, and the first man
+     of the Nishinam, save in war, sings of the duty
+     of life, which duty is to make life more abundant.
+     The Shaman, or medicine man, sings of
+     foreboding and prophecy. The War Chief, who
+     commands in war, sings that war is the only
+     way to life. This Red Cloud denies, affirming
+     that the way of life is the way of the acorn-
+     planter, and that whoso slays one man slays
+     the planter of many acorns. Red Cloud wins
+     the Shaman and the people to his contention.
+
+     After the passage of thousands of years, again
+     in the grove appear the Nishinam. In Red
+     Cloud, the War Chief, the Shaman, and the
+     Dew-Woman are repeated the eternal figures
+     of the philosopher, the soldier, the priest, and
+     the woman&mdash;types ever realizing themselves
+     afresh in the social adventures of man. Red
+     Cloud recognizes the wrecked explorers as
+     planters and life-makers, and is for treating
+     them with kindness. But the War Chief and
+     the idea of war are dominant The Shaman
+     joins with the war party, and is privy to the
+     massacre of the explorers.
+
+     A hundred years pass, when, on their seasonal
+     migration, the Nishinam camp for the night in
+     the grove. They still live, and the war formula
+     for life seems vindicated, despite the imminence
+     of the superior life-makers, the whites, who are
+     flooding into California from north, south, east,
+     and west&mdash;the English, the Americans, the
+     Spaniards, and the Russians. The massacre by
+     the white men follows, and Red Cloud, dying,
+     recognizes the white men as brother acorn-planters,
+     the possessors of the superior life-formula
+     of which he had always been a protagonist.
+
+     In the Epilogue, or Apotheosis, occur the
+     celebration of the death of war and the triumph
+     of the acorn-planters.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_PROL" id="link2H_PROL">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      PROLOGUE
+    </h2>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     Time. <i>In the morning of the world.</i>
+
+     Scene. <i>A forest hillside where great trees stand with wide
+     spaces between. A stream flows from a spring that bursts
+     out of the hillside. It is a place of lush ferns and brakes,
+     also, of thickets of such shrubs as inhabit a redwood forest
+     floor. At the left, in the open level space at the foot of the
+     hillside, extending out of sight among the trees, is visible a
+     portion of a Nishinam Indian camp. It is a temporary
+     camp for the night. Small cooking fires smoulder. Standing
+     about are withe-woven baskets for the carrying of supplies
+     and dunnage. Spears and bows and quivers of arrows lie
+     about. Boys drag in dry branches for firewood. Young
+     women fill gourds with water from the stream and proceed
+     about their camp tasks. A number of older women are
+     pounding acorns in stone mortars with stone pestles. An
+     old man and a Shaman, or priest, look expectantly up the
+     hillside. All wear moccasins and are skin-clad, primitive,
+     in their garmenting. Neither iron nor woven cloth occurs
+     in the weapons and gear.</i>
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="linkact1" id="linkact1"></a> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      ACT I.
+    </h2>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Looking up hillside.)</i>
+     Red Cloud is late.
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     <i>(After inspection of hillside.)</i>
+     He has chased the deer far. He is patient.
+     In the chase he is patient like an old man.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     His feet are as fleet as the deer's.
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     <i>(Nodding.)</i>
+     And he is more patient than the deer.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Assertively, as if inculcating a lesson.)</i>
+     He is a mighty chief.
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     <i>(Nodding.)</i>
+     His father was a mighty chief. He is like to
+     his father.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(More assertively.)</i>
+     He is his father. It is so spoken. He is
+     his father's father. He is the first man, the
+     first Red Cloud, ever born, and born again, to
+     chiefship of his people.
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     It is so spoken.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     His father was the Coyote. His mother was
+     the Moon. And he was the first man.
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     <i>(Repeating.)</i>
+     His father was the Coyote. His mother was
+     the Moon. And he was the first man.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     He planted the first acorns, and he is very
+     wise.
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     <i>(Repeating.)</i>
+     He planted the first acorns, and he is very
+     wise.
+
+     <i>(Cries from the women and a turning of
+     faces. Red Cloud appears among his
+     hunters descending the hillside. All
+     carry spears, and bows and arrows.
+     Some carry rabbits and other small
+     game. Several carry deer)</i>
+</pre>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     PLAINT OF THE NISHINAM
+
+     Red Cloud, the meat-bringer!
+     Red Cloud, the acorn-planter!
+     Red Cloud, first man of the Nishinam!
+     Thy people hunger.
+     Far have they fared.
+     Hard has the way been.
+     Day long they sought,
+     High in the mountains,
+     Deep in the pools,
+     Wide 'mong the grasses,
+     In the bushes, and tree-tops,
+     Under the earth and flat stones.
+     Few are the acorns,
+     Past is the time for berries,
+     Fled are the fishes, the prawns and the grasshoppers,
+     Blown far are the grass-seeds,
+     Flown far are the young birds,
+     Old are the roots and withered.
+     Built are the fires for the meat.
+     Laid are the boughs for sleep,
+     Yet thy people cannot sleep.
+     Red Cloud, thy people hunger.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Still descending.)</i>
+     Good hunting! Good hunting!
+
+     <b>Hunters</b>
+     Good hunting! Good hunting!
+
+     <i>(Completing the descent, Red Cloud
+     motions to the meat-bearers. They throw
+     down their burdens before the women,
+     who greedily inspect the spoils.)</i>
+</pre>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     MEAT SONG OF THE NISHINAM
+
+     Meat that is good to eat,
+     Tender for old teeth,
+     Gristle for young teeth,
+     Big deer and fat deer,
+     Lean meat and fat meat,
+     Haunch-meat and knuckle-bone,
+     Liver and heart.
+     Food for the old men,
+     Life for all men,
+     For women and babes.
+     Easement of hunger-pangs,
+     Sorrow destroying,
+     Laughter provoking,
+     Joy invoking,
+     In the smell of its smoking
+     And its sweet in the mouth.
+
+     <i>(The younger women take charge of the meat,
+     and the older women resume their acorn-pounding.)</i>
+
+     <i>(Red Cloud approaches the acorn-pounders
+     and watches them with pleasure.
+     All group about him, the Shaman to the
+     fore, and hang upon his every action, his
+     every utterance.)</i>
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     The heart of the acorn is good?
+
+     <b>First Old Woman</b>
+     <i>(Nodding.)</i>
+     It is good food.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     When you have pounded and winnowed and
+     washed away the bitter.
+
+     <b>Second Old Woman</b>
+     As thou taught'st us, Red Cloud, when the
+     world was very young and thou wast the first man.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     It is a fat food. It makes life, and life is good.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     It was thou, Red Cloud, gathering the acorns
+     and teaching the storing, who gavest life to the
+     Nishinam in the lean years aforetime, when the
+     tribes not of the Nishinam passed like the dew
+     of the morning.
+
+     <i>(He nods a signal to the Old Man.)</i>
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     In the famine in the old time,
+     When the old man was a young man,
+     When the heavens ceased from raining,
+     When the grasslands parched and withered,
+     When the fishes left the river,
+     And the wild meat died of sickness,
+     In the tribes that knew not acorns,
+     All their women went dry-breasted,
+     All their younglings chewed the deer-hides,
+     All their old men sighed and perished,
+     And the young men died beside them,
+     Till they died by tribe and totem,
+     And o'er all was death upon them.
+     Yet the Nishinam unvanquished,
+     Did not perish by the famine.
+     Oh, the acorns Red Cloud gave them!
+     Oh, the acorns Red Cloud taught them
+     How to store in willow baskets
+     'Gainst the time and need of famine!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Who, throughout the Old Man's recital, has
+     nodded approbation, turning to Red
+     Cloud.)</i>
+
+     Sing to thy people, Red Cloud, the song of
+     life which is the song of the acorn.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Making ready to begin)</i>
+     And which is the song of woman, O Shaman.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Hushing the people to listen, solemnly)</i>
+     He sings with his father's lips, and with the
+     lips of his father's fathers to the beginning of time
+     and men.
+</pre>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     SONG OF THE FIRST MAN
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     I am Red Cloud,
+     The first man of the Nishinam.
+     My father was the Coyote.
+     My mother was the Moon.
+     The Coyote danced with the stars,
+     And wedded the Moon on a mid-summer night
+     The Coyote is very wise,
+     The Moon is very old,
+     Mine is his wisdom,
+     Mine is her age.
+     I am the first man.
+     I am the life-maker and the father of life.
+     I am the fire-bringer.
+     The Nishinam were the first men,
+     And they were without fire,
+     And knew the bite of the frost of bitter nights.
+     The panther stole the fire from the East,
+     The fox stole the fire from the panther,
+     The ground squirrel stole the fire from the fox,
+     And I, Red Cloud, stole the fire from the ground squirrel.
+     I, Red Cloud, stole the fire for the Nishinam,
+     And hid it in the heart of the wood.
+     To this day is the fire there in the heart of the wood.
+     I am the Acorn-Planter.
+     I brought down the acorns from heaven.
+     I planted the short acorns in the valley.
+     I planted the long acorns in the valley.
+     I planted the black-oak acorns that sprout, that sprout!
+     I planted the <i>sho-kum</i> and all the roots of the ground.
+     I planted the oat and the barley, the beaver-tail grass-nut,
+     The tar-weed and crow-foot, rock lettuce and ground lettuce,
+     And I taught the virtue of clover in the season of blossom,
+     The yellow-flowered clover, ball-rolled in its yellow dust.
+     I taught the cooking in baskets by hot stones from the fire,
+     Took the bite from the buckeye and soap-root
+     By ground-roasting and washing in the sweetness of water,
+     And of the manzanita the berry I made into flour,
+     Taught the way of its cooking with hot stones in sand pools,
+     And the way of its eating with the knobbed tail of the deer.
+     Taught I likewise the gathering and storing,
+     The parching and pounding
+     Of the seeds from the grasses and grass-roots;
+     And taught I the planting of seeds in the Nishinam home-camps,
+     In the Nishinam hills and their valleys,
+     In the due times and seasons,
+     To sprout in the spring rains and grow ripe in the sun.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     Hail, Red Cloud, the first man!
+
+     <b>The People</b>
+     Hail, Red Cloud, the first man!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     Who showedst us the way of our feet in the world!
+
+     <b>The People</b>
+     Who showedst us the way of our feet in the world!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     Who showedst us the way of our food in the world!
+
+     <b>The People</b>
+     Who showedst us the way of our food in the world!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     Who showedst us the way of our hearts in the world!
+
+     <b>The People</b>
+     Who showedst us the way of our hearts in the world!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     Who gavest us the law of family!
+
+     <b>The People</b>
+     Who gavest us the law of family!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     The law of tribe!
+
+     <b>The People</b>
+     The law of tribe!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     The law of totem!
+
+     <b>The People</b>
+     The law of totem!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     And madest us strong in the world among men!
+
+     <b>The People</b>
+     And madest us strong in the world among men!
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Life is good, O Shaman, and I have sung but
+     half its song. Acorns are good. So is woman
+     good. Strength is good. Beauty is good. So is
+     kindness good. Yet are all these things without
+     power except for woman. And by these things
+     woman makes strong men, and strong men make
+     for life, ever for more life.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(With gesture of interruption that causes
+     remonstrance from the Shaman but which
+     Red Cloud acknowledges.)</i>
+
+     I care not for beauty. I desire strength in
+     battle and wind in the chase that I may kill my
+     enemy and run down my meat.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Well spoken, O War Chief. By voices in
+     council we learn our minds, and that, too, is
+     strength. Also, is it kindness. For kindness
+     and strength and beauty are one. The eagle in
+     the high blue of the sky is beautiful. The salmon
+     leaping the white water in the sunlight is beautiful.
+     The young man fastest of foot in the race
+     is beautiful. And because they fly well, and leap
+     well, and run well, are they beautiful. Beauty
+     must beget beauty. The ring-tail cat begets
+     the ring-tail cat, the dove the dove. Never
+     does the dove beget the ring-tail cat. Hearts
+     must be kind. The little turtle is not kind.
+     That is why it is the little turtle. It lays its
+     eggs in the sun-warm sand and forgets its young
+     forever. And the little turtle is forever the
+     Kttle turtle. But we are not little turtles,
+     because we are kind. We do not leave our young
+     to the sun in the sand. Our women keep our
+     young warm under their hearts, and, after, they
+     keep them warm with deer-skin and campfire.
+     Because we are kind we are men and not little
+     turtles, and that is why we eat the little turtle
+     that is not strong because it is not kind.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Gesturing to be heard.)</i>
+     The Modoc come against us in their strength.
+     Often the Modoc come against us. We cannot
+     be kind to the Modoc.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     That will come after. Kindness grows. First
+     must we be kind to our own. After, long after,
+     all men will be kind to all men, and all men will
+     be very strong. The strength of the Nishinam
+     is not the strength of its strongest fighter. It is
+     the strength of all the Nishinam added together
+     that makes the Nishinam strong. We talk, you
+     and I, War Chief and First Man, because we are
+     kind one to the other, and thus we add together
+     our wisdom, and all the Nishinam are stronger
+     because we have talked.
+
+     <i>(A voice is heard singing. Red Cloud
+     holds up his hand for silence.)</i>
+</pre>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     MATING SONG
+
+     <b>Dew-Woman</b>
+     In the morning by the river,
+        In the evening at the fire,
+     In the night when all lay sleeping,
+        Torn was I with life's desire.
+     There were stirrings 'neath my heart-beats
+        Of the dreams that came to me;
+     In my ears were whispers, voices,
+        Of the children yet to be.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(As Red Cloud sings, Dew-Woman
+     steals from behind a tree and approaches
+     him.)</i>
+
+     In the morning by the river
+        Saw I first my maid of dew,
+     Daughter of the dew and dawnlight,
+        Of the dawn and honey-dew.
+     She was laughter, she was sunlight,
+        Woman, maid, and mate, and wife;
+     She was sparkle, she was gladness,
+        She was all the song of life.
+
+     <b>Dew-Woman</b>
+     In the night I built my fire,
+        Fire that maidens foster when
+     In the ripe of mating season
+        Each builds for her man of men.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     In the night I sought her, proved her,
+        Found her ease, content, and rest,
+     After day of toil and struggle
+        Man's reward on woman's breast.
+
+     <b>Dew-Woman</b>
+     Came to me my mate and lover;
+        Kind the hands he laid on me;
+     Wooed me gently as a man may,
+        Father of the race to be.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Soft her arms about me bound me,
+        First man of the Nishinam,
+     Arms as soft as dew and dawnlight,
+        Daughter of the Nishinam.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     She was life and she was woman!
+
+     <b>Dew-Woman</b>
+     He was life and he was man!
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b> and Dew-Woman
+
+     <i>(Arms about each other.)</i>
+     In the dusk-time of our love-night,
+        There beside the marriage fire,
+     Proved we all the sweets of living,
+        In the arms of our desire.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Angrily.)</i>
+     The councils of men are not the place for
+     women.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Gently.)</i>
+     As men grow kind and wise there will be
+     women in the councils of men. As men grow
+     their women must grow with them if they would
+     continue to be the mothers of men.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     It is told of old time that there are women in
+     the councils of the Sim. And is it not told that
+     the Sun Man will destroy us?
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Then is the Sun Man the stronger; it may be
+     because of his kindness and wiseness, and because
+     of his women.
+
+     <b>Young Brave</b>
+     Is it told that the women of the Sun are good
+     to the eye, soft to the arm, and a fire in the heart
+     of man?
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Holding up hand solemnly.)</i>
+     It were well, lest the young do not forget, to
+     repeat the old word again.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Nodding confirmation.)</i>
+     Here, where the tale is told.
+
+     <i>(Pointing to the spring.)</i>
+     Here, where the water burst from under the heel
+     of the Sun Man mounting into the sky.
+
+     <i>(War Chief leads the way up the hillside
+     to the spring, and signals to the Old Man
+     to begin)</i>
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     When the world was in the making,
+     Here within the mighty forest,
+     Came the Sun Man every morning.
+     White and shining was the Sun Man,
+     Blue his eyes were as the sky-blue,
+     Bright his hair was as dry grass is,
+     Warm his eyes were as the sun is,
+     Fruit and flower were in his glances;
+     All he looked on grew and sprouted,
+     As these trees we see about us,
+     Mightiest trees in all the forest,
+     For the Sun Man looked upon them.
+
+     Where his glance fell grasses seeded,
+     Where his feet fell sprang upstarting&mdash;
+     Buckeye woods and hazel thickets,
+     Berry bushes, manzanita,
+     Till his pathway was a garden,
+     Flowing after like a river,
+     Laughing into bud and blossom.
+     There was never frost nor famine
+     And the Nishinam were happy,
+     Singing, dancing through the seasons,
+     Never cold and never hungered,
+     When the Sun Man lived among us.
+
+     But the foxes mean and cunning,
+     Hating Nishinam and all men,
+     Laid their snares within this forest,
+     Caught the Sun Man in the morning,
+     With their ropes of sinew caught him,
+     Bound him down to steal his wisdom
+     And become themselves bright Sun Men,
+     Warm of glance and fruitful-footed,
+     Masters of the frost and famine.
+
+     Swiftly the Coyote running
+     Came to aid the fallen Sun Man,
+     Swiftly killed the cunning foxes,
+     Swiftly cut the ropes of sinew,
+     Swiftly the Coyote freed him.
+
+     But the Sun Man in his anger,
+     Lightning flashing, thunder-throwing,
+     Loosed the frost and fanged the famine,
+     Thorned the bushes, pinched the berries,
+     Put the bitter in the buckeye,
+     Rocked the mountains to their summits,
+     Flung the hills into the valleys,
+     Sank the lakes and shoaled the rivers,
+     Poured the fresh sea in the salt sea,
+     Stamped his foot here in the forest,
+     Where the water burst from under
+     Heel that raised him into heaven&mdash;
+     Angry with the world forever
+     Rose the Sun Man into heaven.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Solemnly.)</i>
+     I am the Shaman. I know what has gone
+     before and what will come after. I have passed
+     down through the gateway of death and talked
+     with the dead. My eyes have looked upon the
+     unseen things. My ears have heard the
+     unspoken words. And now I shall tell you of
+     the Sun Man in the days to come.
+
+     <i>(Shaman stiffens suddenly with hideous
+     facial distortions, with inturned eye-balls
+     and loosened jaw. He waves his arms
+     about, writhes and twists in torment, as
+     if in epilepsy.)</i>
+
+     <i>(The Women break into a wailing, inarticulate
+     chant, swaying their bodies to the
+     accent. The men join them somewhat
+     reluctantly, all save Red Cloud, who
+     betrays vexation, and War Chief, who
+     betrays truculence.)</i>
+
+     <i>(Shaman, leading the rising frenzy, with
+     convulsive shiverings and tremblings tears
+     of his skin garments so that he is quite
+     naked save for a girdle of eagle-claws
+     about his thighs. His long black hair
+     flies about his face. With an abruptness
+     that is startling, he ceases all movement
+     and stands erect, rigid. This is greeted
+     with a low moaning that slowly dies
+     away.)</i>
+</pre>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     CHANT OF PROPHECY
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     The Sun never grows cold.
+     The Sun Man is like the Sun.
+     His anger never grows cold.
+     The Sun Man will return.
+     The Sun Man will come back from the Sun.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     The Sun Man will return.
+     The Sun Man will come back from the Sun.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     As the water burst forth when he rose into the sky,
+     So will the water cease to flow when he returns from the sky.
+     The Sun Man is mighty.
+     In his eyes is blue fire.
+     In his hands he bears the thunder.
+     The lightnings are in his hair.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     In his hands he bears the thunder.
+     The lightnings are in his hair.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man is white.
+     His skin is white like the sun.
+     His hair is bright like the sunlight.'
+     His eyes are blue like the sky.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man is white.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     The Sun Man is mighty.
+     He is the enemy of the Nishinam.
+     He will destroy the Nishinam.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     He is the enemy of the Nishinam.
+     He will destroy the Nishinam.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     In the day the Sun Man comes
+     The water from the spring will no longer flow.
+     And in that day he will destroy the Nishinam.
+     With the thunder will he destroy the Nishinam.
+     The Nishinam will be like last year's grasses.
+     The Nishinam will be like the smoke of last year's campfires.
+     The Nishinam will be less than the dreams that trouble the sleeper.
+     The Nishinam will be like the days no man remembers.
+     I am the Shaman.
+     I have spoken.
+
+     <i>(The People set up a sad wailing.)</i>
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Striking his chest with his fist.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     <i>(The People cease from their wailing and
+     look to the War Chief with hopeful
+     expectancy.)</i>
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     I am the War Chief. In war I command.
+     Nor the Shaman nor Red Cloud may say me nay
+     when in war I command. Let the Sun Man
+     come back. I am not afraid. If the foxes snared
+     him with ropes, then can I slay him with spear-
+     thrust and war-club. I am the War Chief. In
+     war I command.
+
+     <i>(The People greet War Chief's pronouncement
+     with warlike cries of approval.)</i>
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     The foxes are cunning. If they snared the Sun Man
+     With ropes of sinew, then let us be cunning
+     And snare him with ropes of kindness.
+     In kindness, O War Chief, is strength, much strength.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     Red Cloud speaks true. In kindness is strength.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     I am the War Chief.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     You cannot slay the Sun Man.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     I am the War Chief.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     The Sun Man fights with the thunder in his hand.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     I am the War Chief.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(As he speaks the People are visibly wan by
+     his argument.)</i>
+
+     You speak true, O War Chief. In war you
+     command. You are strong, most strong. You
+     have slain the Modoc. You have slain the Napa.
+     You have slain the Clam-Eaters of the big water
+     till the last one is not. Yet you have not slain
+     all the foxes. The foxes cannot fight, yet are
+     they stronger than you because you cannot slay
+     them. The foxes are foxes, but we are men.
+     When the Sun Man comes we will not be cunning
+     like the foxes. We will be kind. Kindness and
+     love will we give to the Sun Man, so that he will
+     be our friend. Then will he melt the frost, pull
+     the teeth of famine, give us back our rivers of
+     deep water, our lakes of sweet water, take the
+     bitter from the buckeye, and in all ways make
+     the world the good world it was before he left us.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     Hail, Red Cloud, the first man!
+     Hail, Red Cloud, the Acorn-Planter!
+     Who showed us the way of our feet in the world!
+     Who showed us the way of our food in the world!
+     Who showed us the way of our hearts in the world!
+     Who gave us the law of family,
+     The law of tribe,
+     The law of totem,
+     And made us strong in the world among men!
+
+     <i>(While the People sing the hillside slowly
+     grows dark.)</i>
+</pre>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     ACT I
+
+     <i>(Ten thousand years have passed, and it is
+     the time of the early voyaging from Europe
+     to the waters of the Pacific, when the
+     deserted hillside is again revealed as the
+     moon rises. The stream no longer flows
+     from the spring. Since the grove is used
+     only as a camp for the night when the
+     Nishinam are on their seasonal migration
+     there are no signs of previous camps.)</i>
+
+     <i>(Enter from right, at end of day's march,
+     women, old men, and Shaman, the
+     women bending under their burdens of
+     camp gear and dunnage)</i>
+
+     <i>(Enter from left youths carrying fish-spears
+     and large fish)</i>
+
+     <i>(Appear, coming down the hillside, Red
+     Cloud and the hunters, many carrying
+     meat.)</i>
+
+     <i>(The various repeated characters, despite
+     differences of skin garmenting and decoration,
+     resemble their prototypes of the prologue.)</i>
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Good hunting! Good hunting!
+
+     <b>Hunters</b>
+     Good hunting! Good hunting!
+
+     <b>Youths</b>
+     Good fishing! Good fishing!
+
+     <b>Women</b>
+     Good berries! Good acorns!
+
+     <i>(The women and youths and hunters, as they
+     reach the campsite, begin throwing down
+     their burdens)</i>
+
+     <b>Dew-Woman</b>
+     <i>(Discovering the dry spring.)</i>
+     The water no longer flows!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Stilling the excitement that is immediate
+     on the discovery.)</i>
+     The word of old time that has come down to
+     us from all the Shamans who have gone before!
+     The Sun Man has come back from the Sun.
+
+     <b>Dew-Woman</b>
+     <i>(Looking to Red Cloud.)</i>
+     Let Red Cloud speak. Since the morning of
+     the world has Red Cloud ever been reborn with
+     the ancient wisdom to guide us.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     Save in war. In war I command.
+
+     <i>(He picks out hunters by name.)</i>
+     Deer Foot... Elk Man... Antelope. Run
+     through the forest, climb the hill-tops, seek down
+     the valleys, for aught you may find of this Sun Man.
+
+     <i>(At a wave of the War Chief's hand the
+     three hunters depart in different directions.)</i>
+
+     <b>Dew-Woman</b>
+     Let Red Cloud speak his mind.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Quietly)</i>
+     Last night the earth shook and there was a
+     roaring in the air. Often have I seen, when the
+     earth shakes and there is a roaring, that springs
+     in some places dry up, and that in other places
+     where were no springs, springs burst forth.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     The Shamans told it of old.
+     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     The roaring in the air was the thunder of the
+     Sun Man's return. Now will he destroy the
+     Nishinam. Such is the word.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     <i>(From right Deer Foot runs in.)</i>
+
+     <b>Deer Foot</b>
+     <i>(Breathless.)</i>
+     They come! He comes!
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     Who comes?
+
+     <b>Deer Foot</b>
+     The Sun Men. The Sun Man. He is their
+     chief. He marches before them. And he is
+     white.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man is white.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Carries he the thunder in his hand?
+
+     <b>Deer Foot</b>
+     <i>(Puzzled)</i>
+     He looks hungry.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     Hoh! Hoh! The Sun Man is hungry. It
+     will be easy to kill a hungry Sun Man.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     It would be easy to be kind to a hungry Sun
+     Man and give him food. We have much. The
+     hunting has been good.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     Better to kill the Sun Man.
+
+     <i>(He turns upon People, indicating most
+     commands in gestures as he prepares the
+     ambush, making women and boys conceal
+     all the camp outfit and game, and
+     disposing the armed hunters among the
+     ferns and behind trees till all are hidden.)</i>
+
+     <b>Elk Man and Antelope</b>
+     <i>(Running down hillside)</i>
+     The Sun Man comes.
+
+     <i>(War Chief sends them to hiding places)</i>
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Preparing himself to hide)</i>
+     You have not hidden, O Red Cloud.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Stepping into shadow of big tree where he
+     remains inconspicuous though dimly
+     visible)</i>
+     I would see this Sun Man and talk with him.
+
+     <i>(The sound of singing is heard, and War
+     Chief conceals himself)</i>
+
+     <i>(Sun Man, with handful of followers, singing
+     to ease the tedium of the march, enter
+     from right. They are patently survivors
+     of a wrecked exploring skip, making their
+     way inland)</i>
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     We sailed three hundred strong
+        For the far Barbaree;
+     Our voyage has been most long
+        For the far Barbaree;
+           So&mdash;it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+     For the far Barbaree.
+
+     We sailed the oceans wide
+        For the coast of Barbaree;
+     And left our ship a sinking
+        On the coast of Barbaree;
+           So&mdash;it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     Our ship went fast a-lee
+        On the rocks of Barbaree;
+     That's why we quit the sea
+        On the rocks of Barbaree.
+           So&mdash;it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     We quit the bitter seas
+        On the coast of Barbaree;
+     To seek the savag-ees
+        Of the far Barbaree.
+           So&mdash;it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     Our feet are lame and sore
+        In the far Barbaree;
+     From treading of the shore
+        Of the far Barbaree.
+           So&mdash;it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     A weary brood are we
+        In the far Barbaree;
+     Sea cunies of the sea
+        In the far Barbaree.
+           So&mdash;it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(Who alone carries a musket, and who is
+     evidently captain of the wrecked company)</i>
+     No farther can we go this night. Mayhap
+     to-morrow we may find the savages and food.
+
+     <i>(He glances about.)</i>
+     This far world grows noble trees. We shall sleep
+     as in a temple.
+
+     <b>First Sea Cuny</b>
+     <i>(Espying Red Cloud, and pointing.)</i>
+     Look, Captain!
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(Making the universal peace-sign, arm
+     raised and out, palm-outward.)</i>
+     Who are you? Speak. We come in peace.
+     We kindness seek.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Advancing out of the shadow.)</i>
+     Whence do you come?
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     From the great sea.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     I do not understand. No one journeys
+     on the great sea.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     We have journeyed many moons.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Have you come from the sun?
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     God wot! We have journeyed across the
+     sun, high and low in the sky, and over the sun
+     and under the sun the round world 'round.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(With conviction.)</i>
+     You come from the Sun. Your hair is like
+     the summer sunburnt grasses. Your eyes are
+     blue. Your skin is white.
+
+     <i>(With absolute conviction.)</i>
+     You are the Sun Man.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(With a shrug of shoulders.)</i>
+     Have it so. I come from the Sun. I am the
+     Sun Man.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Do you carry the thunder in your hand?
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(Nonplussed for the moment, glances at
+     his musket, then smiles.)</i>
+     Yes, I carry the thunder in my hand.
+
+     <i>(War Chief and the Hunters leap
+     suddenly from ambush. Sun Man
+     warns Sea Cunies not to resist. War
+     Chief captures and holds Sun Man,
+     and Sea Cunies are similarly captured
+     and held. Women and boys appear, and
+     examine prisoners curiously.)</i>
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh! I have captured the
+     Sun Man! Like the foxes, I have captured
+     the Sun Man!&mdash;Deer Foot! Elk Man! The
+     foxes held the Sun Man. I now hold the Sun
+     Man. Then can you hold the Sun Man.
+
+     <i>(Deer Foot and Elk Man seize the Sun
+     Man.)</i>
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(To Shaman.)</i>
+     He said he came in kindness.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Sneering.)</i>
+     In kindness, with the thunder in his hand.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Deflected to partisanship of War Chief
+     by War Chief's success.)</i>
+     By his own lips has he said it, with the thunder
+     in his hand.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     You are the Sun Man.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(Shrugging shoulders.)</i>
+     My names are many as the stars. Call me
+     White Man.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     I am Red Cloud, the first man.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Then am I Adam, the first man and your
+     brother.
+
+     <i>(Glancing about.)</i>
+     And this is Eden, to look upon it.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     My father was the Coyote.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     My father was Jehovah.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     I am the Fire-Bringer. I stole the fire from
+     the ground squirrel and hid it in the heart of
+     the wood.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Then am I Prometheus, your brother. I
+     stole the fire from heaven and hid it in the heart
+     of the wood.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     I am the Acorn-Planter. I am the Food-
+     Bringer, the Life-Maker. I make food for
+     more life, ever more life.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Then am I truly your brother. Life-Maker
+     am I, tilling the soil in the sweat of my brow
+     from the beginning of time, planting all manner
+     of good seeds for the harvest.
+
+     <i>(Looking sharply at Red Cloud's skin
+     garments.)</i>
+     Also am I the Weaver and Cloth-Maker.
+
+     <i>(Holding out arm so that Red Cloud may
+     examine the cloth of the coat)</i>
+     From the hair of the goat and the wool of
+     the sheep, and from beaten and spun grasses,
+     do I make the cloth to keep man warm.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Breaking in boastfully.)</i>
+     I am the Shaman. I know all secret things.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     I know my pathway under the sun over all
+     the seas, and I know the secrets of the stars
+     that show me my path where no path is. I
+     know when the Wolf of Darkness shall eat the
+     moon.
+
+     <i>(Pointing toward moon.)</i>
+     On this night shall the Wolf of Darkness eat
+     the moon.
+
+     <i>(He turns suddenly to Red Cloud,
+     drawing sheath-knife and passing it
+     to him.)</i>
+
+     More, O First Man and Acorn-Planter. I am
+     the Iron-Maker. Behold!
+
+     <i>(Red Cloud examines knife, understands
+     immediately its virtue, cuts easily a strip
+     of skin from his skin garment, and is
+     overcome with the wonder of the knife.)</i>
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Exhibiting a long bow.)</i>
+     I am the War Chief. No man, save me, has
+     strength to bend this bow. I can slay farther
+     than any man.
+
+     <i>(A huge bear has come out among the
+     bushes far up the hillside)</i>
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     I, too, am War Chief over men, and I can
+     slay farther than you.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(Pointing to bear)</i>
+     Can you slay that with your strong bow?
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Dubiously)</i>
+     It is a far shot. Too far. No man can slay
+     a great bear so far.
+
+     <i>(Sun Man, shaking off from his arms the
+     hands of Deer Foot and Elk Man,
+     aims musket and fires. The bear falls,
+     and the Nishinam betray astonishment
+     and awe)</i>
+
+     <i>(At a quick signal from War Chief,
+     Sun Man is again seized. War Chief
+     takes away musket and examines it.)</i>
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     There is a sign.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     He carries the thunder in his hand.
+     He slays with the thunder in his hand.
+     He is the enemy of the Nishinam.
+     He will destroy the Nishinam.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     There is a sign.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     In the day the Sun Man comes,
+     The waters from the spring will no longer flow,
+     And in that day will he destroy the Nishinam.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Exhibiting musket.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! I have taken the Sun Man's
+     thunder.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     Now shall the Sun Man die that the Nishinam
+     may live.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     He is our brother. He, too, is an acorn-
+     planter. He has spoken.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     He is the Sun Man, and he is our eternal
+     enemy. He shall die.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     In war I command.
+
+     <i>(To Hunters.)</i>
+     Tie their feet with stout thongs that they
+     may not run. And then make ready with bow
+     and arrow to do the deed.
+
+     <i>(Hunters obey, urging and thrusting the
+     Sea Cunies into a compact group behind
+     the Sun Man.)</i>
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Shaman I am not.
+     I know not the secret things.
+     I say the things I know.
+     When you plant kindness you harvest kindness.
+     When you plant blood you harvest blood.
+     He who plants one acorn makes way for life.
+     He who slays one man slays the planter of a
+     thousand acorns.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     Shaman I am.
+     I see the dark future.
+     I see the Sun Man's death,
+     The journey he must take
+     Through thick and endless forest
+     Where lost souls wander howling
+     A thousand moons of moons.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     Through thick and endless forest
+     Where lost souls wander howling
+     A thousand moons of moons.
+
+     <i>(War Chief arranges Hunters with their
+     bows and arrows for the killing.)</i>
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(To Red Cloud.)</i>
+     You will slay us?
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Indicating War Chief.)</i>
+     In war he commands.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(Addressing the Nishinam)</i>
+     Nor am I a Shaman. But I will tell you true
+     things to be. Our brothers are acorn-planters,
+     cloth-weavers, iron-workers. Our brothers are
+     life-makers and masters of life. Many are our
+     brothers and strong. They will come after us.
+     Your First Man has spoken true words. When
+     you plant blood you harvest blood. Our brothers
+     will come to the harvest with the thunder
+     in their hands. There is a sign. This night,
+     and soon, will the Wolf of Darkness eat the
+     moon. And by that sign will our brothers come
+     on the trail we have broken.
+
+     <i>(As final preparation for the killing is
+     completed, and as Hunters are arranged
+     with their bows and arrows,
+     Sun Man sings.)</i>
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Our brothers will come after,
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Givers of law, our brothers,
+        This is the law they say:
+     Who takes the life of a brother
+        Ten of the slayers shall pay.
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     Our brothers will come after,
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Our brothers will come after
+        By the courses that we lay;
+     Many and strong our brothers,
+        Masters of life are they.
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     Our brothers will come after
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Plowers of land, our brothers,
+        Of the hills and pleasant leas;
+     Under the sun our brothers
+        With their keels will plow the seas.
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     Our brothers will come after,
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Mighty men are our brothers,
+        Quick to forgive and to wrath,
+     Sailing the seas, our brothers
+        Will follow us on our path.
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     Our brothers will come after,
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     <i>(At signal from War Chief the arrows
+     are discharged, and repeatedly
+     discharged. The Sun Men fall. The War
+     Chief himself kills the Sun Man.)</i>
+
+     <i>(In what follows, Red Cloud and Dew-
+     Woman stand aside, taking no part.
+     Red Cloud is depressed, and at the
+     same time is overcome with the wonder
+     of the knife which he still holds.)</i>
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Brandishing musket and drifting stiff-
+     legged, as he sings, into the beginning
+     of a war dance of victory.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     I have slain the Sun Man!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     I hold his thunder in my hand!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     Greatest of War Chiefs am I!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     I have slain the Sun Man!
+
+     <i>(The dance grows wilder.)</i>
+
+     <i>(After a time the hillside begins to darken)</i>
+
+     <b>Dew-Woman</b>
+     <i>(Pointing to the moon entering eclipse)</i>
+     Lo! The Wolf of Darkness eats the Moon!
+
+     <i>(In consternation the dance is broken off
+     for the moment)</i>
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Reassuringly)</i>
+     It is a sign.
+     The Sun Man is dead.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Recovering courage and resuming dance.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man is dead!
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     <i>(Resuming dance.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man is dead!
+
+     <i>(As darkness increases the dance grows
+     into a saturnalia, until complete darkness
+     settles down and hides the hillside.)</i>
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      ACT II
+    </h2>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     <i>(A hundred years have passed, when the
+     hillside and the Nishinam in their
+     temporary camp are revealed. The spring
+     is flowing, and Women are filling gourds
+     with water. Red Cloud and Dew-
+     Woman stand apart from their people.)</i>
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Pointing.)</i>
+     There is a sign.
+     The spring lives.
+     The water flows from the spring
+     And all is well with the Nishinam.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     There is a sign.
+     The spring lives.
+     The water flows from the spring.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Boastingly.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     All is well with the Nishinam.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     It is I who have made all well with the Nishinam.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     I led our young men against the Napa.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     We left no man living of the camp.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     Great is our War Chief!
+     Good is war!
+     No more will the Napa hunt our meat.
+     No more will the Napa pick our berries.
+     No more will the Napa catch our fish.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     No more will the Napa hunt our meat.
+     No more will the Napa pick our berries.
+     No more will the Napa catch our fish.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The War Chiefs before me made all well with
+     the Nishinam.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The War Chief of long ago slew the Sun Man.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man said his brothers would come after.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man lied.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man lied.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man lied.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     <i>(Derisively.)</i>
+     Red Cloud is sick. He lives in dreams. Ever
+     he dreams of the wonders of the Sun Man.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     The Sun Man was strong. The Sun Man was
+     a life-maker. The Sun Man planted acorns,
+     and cut quickly with a knife not of bone nor
+     stone, and of grasses and hides made cunning
+     cloth that is better than all grasses and hides.
+     &mdash;Old Man, where is the cunning cloth that is
+     better than all grasses and hides?
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     <i>(Fumbling in his skin pouch for the doth.)</i>
+     In the many moons aforetime,
+     Hundred moons and many hundred,
+     When the old man was the young man,
+     When the young man was the youngling,
+     Dragging branches for the campfire,
+     Stealing suet from the bear-meat,
+     Cause of trouble to his mother,
+     Came the Sun Man in the night-time.
+     I alone of all the Nishinam
+     Live to-day to tell the story;
+     I alone of all the Nishinam
+     Saw the Sun Man come among us,
+     Heard the Sun Man and his Sun Men
+     Sing their death-song here among us
+     Ere they died beneath our arrows,
+     War Chief's arrows sharp and feathered&mdash;
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Interrupting braggartly.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     <b>Old Man</b>
+     <i>(Producing cloth.)</i>
+     And the Sun Man and his Sun Men
+     Wore nor hair nor hide nor birdskin.
+     Cloth they wore from beaten grasses
+     Woven like our willow baskets,
+     Willow-woven acorn baskets
+     Women make in acorn season.
+
+     <i>(Old Man hands piece of cloth to Red
+     Cloud.)</i>
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Admiring cloth.)</i>
+     The Sun Man was an acorn-planter, and we
+     killed the Sun Man. We were not kind. We
+     made a blood-debt. Blood-debts are not good.
+
+     <b>Shaman</b>
+     The Sun Man lied. His brothers did not come
+     after. There is no blood-debt when there is no
+     one to make us pay.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     He who plants acorns reaps food, and food is
+     life. He who sows war reaps war, and war is death.
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     <i>(Encouraged by Shaman and War Chief
+     to drown out Red Cloud's voice.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man is dead!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man and his Sun Men are dead!
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Shaking his head.)</i>
+     His brothers of the Sun are coming after.
+     I have reports.
+
+     <i>(Red Cloud beckons one after another of
+     the young hunters to speak)</i>
+
+     <b>First Hunter</b>
+     To the south, not far, I wandered and lived
+     with the Petaluma. With my eyes I did not
+     see, but it was told me by those whose eyes had
+     seen, that still to the south, not far, were many
+     Sun Men&mdash;war chiefs who carry the thunder in
+     their hands; cloth-makers and weavers of cloth
+     like to that in Red Cloud's hand; acorn-planters
+     who plant all manner of strange seeds that ripen
+     to rich harvests of food that is good. And there
+     had been trouble. The Petaluma had killed
+     Sun Men, and many Petaluma had the Sun Men
+     killed.
+
+     <b>Second Hunter</b>
+     To the east, not far, I wandered and lived with
+     the Solano. With my own eyes I did not see,
+     but it was told me by those whose eyes had seen,
+     that still to the east, not far, and just beyond the
+     lands of the Tule tribes, were many Sun Men&mdash;
+     war chiefs and cloth-makers and acorn-planters.
+     And there had been trouble. The Solano had
+     killed Sun Men, and many Solano had the Sun Men killed.
+
+     <b>Third Hunter</b>
+     To the north, and far, I wandered and lived
+     with the Klamath. With my own eyes I did
+     not see, but it was told me by those whose eyes
+     had seen, that still to the north, and far, were
+     many Sun Men&mdash;war chiefs and cloth-makers
+     and acorn-planters. And there had been trouble.
+     The Klamath had killed Sun Men, and many
+     Klamath had the Sun Men killed.
+
+     <b>Fourth Hunter</b>
+     To the west, not far, three days gone I
+     wandered, where, from the mountain, I looked
+     down upon the great sea. With my own eyes
+     I saw. It was like a great bird that swam upon
+     the water. It had great wings like to our great
+     trees here. And on its back I saw men, many
+     men, and they were Sun Men. With my own
+     eyes I saw.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     We shall be kind to the Sun Men when they
+     come among us.
+
+     <b>War Chief</b>
+     <i>(Dancing stiff-legged.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     Let the Sun Men come!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     We will kill the Sun Men when they come!
+
+     <b>People</b>
+     <i>(As they join in the war dance.)</i>
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     Let the Sun Men come!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     We will kill the Sun Men when they come.
+
+     <i>(The dance grows wilder, the Shaman and
+     War Chief encouraging it, while Red
+     Cloud and Dew-Woman stand sadly at
+     a distance.)</i>
+
+     <i>(Rifle shots ring out from every side. Up
+     the hillside appear Sun Men firing rifles.
+     The Nishinam reel to death from their
+     dancing.)</i>
+
+     <i>(Red Cloud shields Dew-Woman with
+     one arm about her, and with the other arm
+     makes the peace-sign)</i>
+
+     <i>(The massacre is complete, Dew-Woman
+     and Red Cloud being the last to fall.
+     Red Cloud, wounded, the sole survivor,
+     rests on his elbow and watches the Sun
+     Men assemble about their leader)</i>
+
+     <i>(The Sun Men are the type of pioneer
+     Americans who, even before the discovery
+     of gold, were already drifting across the
+     Sierras and down into Oregon and
+     California with their oxen and great wagons.
+     With here and there a Rocky Mountain
+     trapper or a buckskin-clad scout of the
+     Kit Carson type, in the main they are
+     backwoods farmers. All carry the long
+     rifle of the period.)</i>
+
+     <i>(The Sun Man is buckskin-clad, with long
+     blond hair sweeping his shoulders.)</i>
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     <i>(Led by Sun Man.)</i>
+     We crossed the Western Ocean
+        Three hundred years ago,
+     We cleared New England's forests
+        Three hundred years ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     We cleared New England's forests
+        Three hundred years ago.
+
+     We climbed the Alleghanies
+        Two hundred years ago,
+     We reached the Susquehanna
+        Two hundred years ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     We reached the Susquehanna
+        Two hundred years ago.
+
+     We crossed the Mississippi
+        One hundred years ago,
+     And glimpsed the Rocky Mountains
+        One hundred years ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     And glimpsed the Rocky Mountains
+        One hundred years ago.
+
+     We passed the Rocky Mountains
+        A year or so ago,
+     And crossed the salty deserts
+        A year or so ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     And crossed the salty deserts
+        A year or so ago.
+
+     We topped the high Sierras
+        But a few days ago,
+     And saw great California
+        But a few days ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     And saw great California
+        But a few days ago.
+
+     We crossed Sonoma's mountains
+        An hour or so ago,
+     And found this mighty forest
+        An hour or so ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     And found this mighty forest
+        An hour or so ago.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(Glancing about at the slain and at the giant
+     forest.)</i>
+     Good the day, good the deed, and good this
+     California land.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Not with these eyes, but with other eyes in my
+     lives before, have I beheld you. You are the
+     Sun Man.
+
+     <i>(The attention of all is drawn to Red
+     Cloud, and they group about him and the
+     Sun Man.)</i>
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Call me White Man. Though in truth we
+     follow the sun. All our lives have we followed
+     the sunset sun, as our fathers followed it before
+     us.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     And you slay us with the thunder in your hand.
+     You slay us because we slew your brothers.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     <i>(Nodding to Red Cloud and addressing
+     his own followers)</i>
+     You see, it was no mistake. He confesses it.
+     Other white men have they slain.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     There will come a day when men will not slay
+     men and when all men will be brothers. And in
+     that day all men will plant acorns.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     You speak well, brother.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Ever was I for peace, but in war I did not command.
+     Ever I sought the secrets of the growing
+     things, the times and seasons for planting. Ever
+     I planted acorns, making two black oak trees
+     grow where one grew before. And now all is
+     ended. Oh my black oak acorns! My black
+     oak acorns! Who will plant them now?
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Be of good cheer. We, too, are planters.
+     Rich is your land here. Not from poor soil can
+     such trees sprout heavenward. We will plant
+     many seeds and grow mighty harvests.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     I planted the short acorns in the valley. I
+     planted the long acorns in the valley. I made
+     food for life.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     You planted well, brother, but not well enough.
+     It is for that reason that you pass. Your fat
+     valley grows food but for a handful of men. We
+     shall plant your fat valley and grow food for ten
+     thousand men.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Ever I counseled peace and planting.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Some day all men will counsel peace. No
+     man will slay his fellow. All men will plant.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     But before that day you will slay, as you have
+     this day slain us?
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     You killed our brothers first. Blood-debts must
+     be paid. It is man's way upon the earth. But
+     more, O brother! We follow the sunset sun, and
+     the way before us is red with war. The way
+     behind us is white with peace. Ever, before
+     us, we make room for life. Ever we slay the
+     squalling crawling things of the wild. Ever we
+     clear the land and destroy the weeds that block
+     the way of life for the seeds we plant. We are
+     many, and many are our brothers that come after
+     along the way of peace we blaze. Where you
+     make two black oaks grow in the place of one,
+     we make an hundred. And where we make one
+     grow, our brothers who come after make an
+     hundred hundred.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Truly are you the Sun Man. We knew about
+     you of old time. Our old men knew and sang of
+     you:
+
+     White and shining was the Sun Man,
+     Blue his eyes were as the sky-blue,
+     Bright his hair was as dry grass is,
+     Warm his eyes were as the sun is,
+     Fruit and flower were in his glances,
+     All he looked on grew and sprouted,
+     Where his glance fell grasses seeded,
+     Where his feet fell sprang upstarting
+     Buckeye woods and hazel thickets,
+     Berry bushes, manzanita,
+     Till his pathway was a garden,
+     Flowing after like a river
+     Laughing into bud and blossom.
+</pre>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     SONG OF THE PIONEERS
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze.
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+           Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers' hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+        Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+           Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     We cleared New England's flinty slopes and plowed
+     Her rocky fields to fairness in the sun,
+     But fared we westward always for we sought
+     A land of golden richness and we knew
+     The land was waiting on the sunset trail.
+     Where we found forest we left fertile fields,
+     We bridled rivers wild to grind our corn,
+     The deer-paths turned to roadways at our heels,
+     Our axes felled the trees that bridged the streams,
+     And fenced the meadow pastures for our kine.
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze;
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+        Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers' hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+        Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+           Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     Beyond the Mississippi still we fared,
+     And rested weary by the River Platte
+     Until the young grass velveted the Plains,
+     Then yoked again our oxen to the trail
+     That ever led us west to farthest west.
+     Our women toiled beside us, and our young,
+     And helped to break the soil and plant the corn,
+     And fought beside us in the battle front
+     To fight of arrow, whine of bullet, when
+     We chained our circled wagons wheel to wheel.
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze;
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+           Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+        Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+           Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+
+     <b>Sun Man</b>
+     The rivers sank beneath the desert sand,
+     The tall pines dwarfed to sage-brush, and the grass
+     Grew sparse and bitter in the alkali,
+     But fared we always toward the setting sun.
+     Our oxen famished till the last one died
+     And our great wagons rested in the snow.
+     We climbed the high Sierras and looked down
+     From winter bleak upon the land we sought,
+     A sunny land, a rich and fruitful land,
+     The warm and golden California land.
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze;
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+           Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers' hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+     Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+        Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+
+     <i>(The hillside begins to darken.)</i>
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     <i>(Faintly.)</i>
+
+     The darkness is upon me. You are acorn-
+     planters. You are my brothers. The darkness
+     is upon me and I pass.
+
+     <b>Sun Men</b>
+     <i>(As total darkness descends.)</i>
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze;
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+           Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers' hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+        Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+           Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_EPIL" id="link2H_EPIL">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      EPILOGUE
+    </h2>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Good tidings! Good tidings
+     To the sons of men!
+     Good tidings! Good tidings!
+     War is dead!
+
+     <i>(Light begins to suffuse the hillside, revealing
+     Red Cloud far up the hillside in a
+     commanding position on an out-jut of
+     rock.)</i>
+     Lo, the New Day dawns,
+     The day of brotherhood,
+     The day when all men
+     Shall be kind to all men,
+     And all men shall be sowers of life.
+
+     <i>(From every side a burst of voices.)</i>
+     Hail to Red Cloud!
+     The Acorn-Planter!
+     The Life-Maker!
+     Hail! All hail!
+     The New Day dawns,
+     The day of brotherhood,
+     The day of man.
+
+     <i>(A band of Warriors appears on hillside.)</i>
+     Warriors
+     Hail, Red Cloud!
+     Mightier than all fighting men!
+     The slayer of War!
+     We are not sad.
+     Our eyes were blinded.
+     We did not know one acorn planted
+     Was mightier than an hundred fighting men.
+     We are not sad.
+     Our red work was when
+     The world was young and wild.
+     The world has grown wise.
+     No man slays his brother.
+     Our work is done.
+     In the light of the new day are we glad.
+
+     <i>(A band of Pioneers and Sea Explorers
+     appears.)</i>
+
+     Pioneers and Explorers
+     Hail, Red Cloud!
+     The first planter!
+     The Acorn-Planter!
+     We sang that War would die,
+     The anarch of our wild and wayward past.
+     We sang our brothers would come after,
+     Turning desert into garden,
+     Sowing friendship, and not hatred,
+     Planting seeds instead of dead men,
+     Growing men to manhood in the sun.
+
+     <i>(A band of Husbandmen appear, bearing
+     fruit and sheaves of grain and corn.)</i>
+
+     <b>Husbandmen</b>
+     Hail, Red Cloud!
+     The first planter!
+     The Acorn-Planter!
+     The harvests no more are red, but golden,
+     We are thy children.
+     We plant for increase,
+     Increase of wheat and corn,
+     Of fruit and flower,
+     Of sheep and kine,
+     Of love and lovers;
+     Rich are our harvests
+     And many are our lovers.
+
+     <b>Red Cloud</b>
+     Death is a stench in the nostrils,
+     Life is beauty and joy.
+     The planters are ever brothers.
+     Never are the warriors brothers;
+     Their ways are set apart,
+     Their hands raised each against each.
+     The planters' ways are the one way.
+     Ever they plant for life,
+     For life more abundant,
+     For beauty of head and hand,
+     For the voices of children playing,
+     And the laughter of maids in the twilight
+     And the lover's song in the gloom.
+
+     <b>All Voices</b>
+     Hail, Red Cloud!
+     The first planter!
+     The Acorn-Planter!
+     The maker of life!
+     Hail! All hail!
+     The New Day dawns,
+     The day of brotherhood,
+     The day of man!
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      THE END
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Acorn-Planter, by Jack London
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Acorn-Planter
+       A California Forest Play (1916)
+
+Author: Jack London
+
+Release Date: July 19, 2007 [EBook #22104]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ACORN-PLANTER ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+
+THE ACORN-PLANTER
+
+A California Forest Play
+Planned To Be Sung By Efficient Singers
+Accompanied By A Capable Orchestra
+
+By Jack London
+
+
+1916
+
+
+
+
+ARGUMENT
+
+     In the morning of the world, while his tribe
+     makes its camp for the night in a grove, Red
+     Cloud, the first man of men, and the first man
+     of the Nishinam, save in war, sings of the duty
+     of life, which duty is to make life more abundant.
+     The Shaman, or medicine man, sings of
+     foreboding and prophecy. The War Chief, who
+     commands in war, sings that war is the only
+     way to life. This Red Cloud denies, affirming
+     that the way of life is the way of the acorn-
+     planter, and that whoso slays one man slays
+     the planter of many acorns. Red Cloud wins
+     the Shaman and the people to his contention.
+
+     After the passage of thousands of years, again
+     in the grove appear the Nishinam. In Red
+     Cloud, the War Chief, the Shaman, and the
+     Dew-Woman are repeated the eternal figures
+     of the philosopher, the soldier, the priest, and
+     the woman--types ever realizing themselves
+     afresh in the social adventures of man. Red
+     Cloud recognizes the wrecked explorers as
+     planters and life-makers, and is for treating
+     them with kindness. But the War Chief and
+     the idea of war are dominant The Shaman
+     joins with the war party, and is privy to the
+     massacre of the explorers.
+
+     A hundred years pass, when, on their seasonal
+     migration, the Nishinam camp for the night in
+     the grove. They still live, and the war formula
+     for life seems vindicated, despite the imminence
+     of the superior life-makers, the whites, who are
+     flooding into California from north, south, east,
+     and west--the English, the Americans, the
+     Spaniards, and the Russians. The massacre by
+     the white men follows, and Red Cloud, dying,
+     recognizes the white men as brother acorn-planters,
+     the possessors of the superior life-formula
+     of which he had always been a protagonist.
+
+     In the Epilogue, or Apotheosis, occur the
+     celebration of the death of war and the triumph
+     of the acorn-planters.
+
+
+
+
+PROLOGUE
+
+     Time. _In the morning of the world._
+
+     Scene. _A forest hillside where great trees stand with wide
+     spaces between. A stream flows from a spring that bursts
+     out of the hillside. It is a place of lush ferns and brakes,
+     also, of thickets of such shrubs as inhabit a redwood forest
+     floor. At the left, in the open level space at the foot of the
+     hillside, extending out of sight among the trees, is visible a
+     portion of a Nishinam Indian camp. It is a temporary
+     camp for the night. Small cooking fires smoulder. Standing
+     about are withe-woven baskets for the carrying of supplies
+     and dunnage. Spears and bows and quivers of arrows lie
+     about. Boys drag in dry branches for firewood. Young
+     women fill gourds with water from the stream and proceed
+     about their camp tasks. A number of older women are
+     pounding acorns in stone mortars with stone pestles. An
+     old man and a Shaman, or priest, look expectantly up the
+     hillside. All wear moccasins and are skin-clad, primitive,
+     in their garmenting. Neither iron nor woven cloth occurs
+     in the weapons and gear._
+
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Looking up hillside.)_
+     Red Cloud is late.
+
+     {Old Man}
+     _(After inspection of hillside.)_
+     He has chased the deer far. He is patient.
+     In the chase he is patient like an old man.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     His feet are as fleet as the deer's.
+
+     {Old Man}
+     _(Nodding.)_
+     And he is more patient than the deer.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Assertively, as if inculcating a lesson.)_
+     He is a mighty chief.
+
+     {Old Man}
+     _(Nodding.)_
+     His father was a mighty chief. He is like to
+     his father.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(More assertively.)_
+     He is his father. It is so spoken. He is
+     his father's father. He is the first man, the
+     first Red Cloud, ever born, and born again, to
+     chiefship of his people.
+
+     {Old Man}
+     It is so spoken.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     His father was the Coyote. His mother was
+     the Moon. And he was the first man.
+
+     {Old Man}
+     _(Repeating.)_
+     His father was the Coyote. His mother was
+     the Moon. And he was the first man.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     He planted the first acorns, and he is very
+     wise.
+
+     {Old Man}
+     _(Repeating.)_
+     He planted the first acorns, and he is very
+     wise.
+
+     _(Cries from the women and a turning of
+     faces. Red Cloud appears among his
+     hunters descending the hillside. All
+     carry spears, and bows and arrows.
+     Some carry rabbits and other small
+     game. Several carry deer)_
+
+
+     PLAINT OF THE NISHINAM
+
+     Red Cloud, the meat-bringer!
+     Red Cloud, the acorn-planter!
+     Red Cloud, first man of the Nishinam!
+     Thy people hunger.
+     Far have they fared.
+     Hard has the way been.
+     Day long they sought,
+     High in the mountains,
+     Deep in the pools,
+     Wide 'mong the grasses,
+     In the bushes, and tree-tops,
+     Under the earth and flat stones.
+     Few are the acorns,
+     Past is the time for berries,
+     Fled are the fishes, the prawns and the grasshoppers,
+     Blown far are the grass-seeds,
+     Flown far are the young birds,
+     Old are the roots and withered.
+     Built are the fires for the meat.
+     Laid are the boughs for sleep,
+     Yet thy people cannot sleep.
+     Red Cloud, thy people hunger.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Still descending.)_
+     Good hunting! Good hunting!
+
+     {Hunters}
+     Good hunting! Good hunting!
+
+     _(Completing the descent, Red Cloud
+     motions to the meat-bearers. They throw
+     down their burdens before the women,
+     who greedily inspect the spoils.)_
+
+
+     MEAT SONG OF THE NISHINAM
+
+     Meat that is good to eat,
+     Tender for old teeth,
+     Gristle for young teeth,
+     Big deer and fat deer,
+     Lean meat and fat meat,
+     Haunch-meat and knuckle-bone,
+     Liver and heart.
+     Food for the old men,
+     Life for all men,
+     For women and babes.
+     Easement of hunger-pangs,
+     Sorrow destroying,
+     Laughter provoking,
+     Joy invoking,
+     In the smell of its smoking
+     And its sweet in the mouth.
+
+     _(The younger women take charge of the meat,
+     and the older women resume their acorn-pounding.)_
+
+     _(Red Cloud approaches the acorn-pounders
+     and watches them with pleasure.
+     All group about him, the Shaman to the
+     fore, and hang upon his every action, his
+     every utterance.)_
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     The heart of the acorn is good?
+
+     {First Old Woman}
+     _(Nodding.)_
+     It is good food.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     When you have pounded and winnowed and
+     washed away the bitter.
+
+     {Second Old Woman}
+     As thou taught'st us, Red Cloud, when the
+     world was very young and thou wast the first man.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     It is a fat food. It makes life, and life is good.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     It was thou, Red Cloud, gathering the acorns
+     and teaching the storing, who gavest life to the
+     Nishinam in the lean years aforetime, when the
+     tribes not of the Nishinam passed like the dew
+     of the morning.
+
+     _(He nods a signal to the Old Man.)_
+
+     {Old Man}
+     In the famine in the old time,
+     When the old man was a young man,
+     When the heavens ceased from raining,
+     When the grasslands parched and withered,
+     When the fishes left the river,
+     And the wild meat died of sickness,
+     In the tribes that knew not acorns,
+     All their women went dry-breasted,
+     All their younglings chewed the deer-hides,
+     All their old men sighed and perished,
+     And the young men died beside them,
+     Till they died by tribe and totem,
+     And o'er all was death upon them.
+     Yet the Nishinam unvanquished,
+     Did not perish by the famine.
+     Oh, the acorns Red Cloud gave them!
+     Oh, the acorns Red Cloud taught them
+     How to store in willow baskets
+     'Gainst the time and need of famine!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Who, throughout the Old Man's recital, has
+     nodded approbation, turning to Red
+     Cloud.)_
+
+     Sing to thy people, Red Cloud, the song of
+     life which is the song of the acorn.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Making ready to begin)_
+     And which is the song of woman, O Shaman.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Hushing the people to listen, solemnly)_
+     He sings with his father's lips, and with the
+     lips of his father's fathers to the beginning of time
+     and men.
+
+
+     SONG OF THE FIRST MAN
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     I am Red Cloud,
+     The first man of the Nishinam.
+     My father was the Coyote.
+     My mother was the Moon.
+     The Coyote danced with the stars,
+     And wedded the Moon on a mid-summer night
+     The Coyote is very wise,
+     The Moon is very old,
+     Mine is his wisdom,
+     Mine is her age.
+     I am the first man.
+     I am the life-maker and the father of life.
+     I am the fire-bringer.
+     The Nishinam were the first men,
+     And they were without fire,
+     And knew the bite of the frost of bitter nights.
+     The panther stole the fire from the East,
+     The fox stole the fire from the panther,
+     The ground squirrel stole the fire from the fox,
+     And I, Red Cloud, stole the fire from the ground squirrel.
+     I, Red Cloud, stole the fire for the Nishinam,
+     And hid it in the heart of the wood.
+     To this day is the fire there in the heart of the wood.
+     I am the Acorn-Planter.
+     I brought down the acorns from heaven.
+     I planted the short acorns in the valley.
+     I planted the long acorns in the valley.
+     I planted the black-oak acorns that sprout, that sprout!
+     I planted the _sho-kum_ and all the roots of the ground.
+     I planted the oat and the barley, the beaver-tail grass-nut,
+     The tar-weed and crow-foot, rock lettuce and ground lettuce,
+     And I taught the virtue of clover in the season of blossom,
+     The yellow-flowered clover, ball-rolled in its yellow dust.
+     I taught the cooking in baskets by hot stones from the fire,
+     Took the bite from the buckeye and soap-root
+     By ground-roasting and washing in the sweetness of water,
+     And of the manzanita the berry I made into flour,
+     Taught the way of its cooking with hot stones in sand pools,
+     And the way of its eating with the knobbed tail of the deer.
+     Taught I likewise the gathering and storing,
+     The parching and pounding
+     Of the seeds from the grasses and grass-roots;
+     And taught I the planting of seeds in the Nishinam home-camps,
+     In the Nishinam hills and their valleys,
+     In the due times and seasons,
+     To sprout in the spring rains and grow ripe in the sun.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     Hail, Red Cloud, the first man!
+
+     {The People}
+     Hail, Red Cloud, the first man!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     Who showedst us the way of our feet in the world!
+
+     {The People}
+     Who showedst us the way of our feet in the world!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     Who showedst us the way of our food in the world!
+
+     {The People}
+     Who showedst us the way of our food in the world!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     Who showedst us the way of our hearts in the world!
+
+     {The People}
+     Who showedst us the way of our hearts in the world!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     Who gavest us the law of family!
+
+     {The People}
+     Who gavest us the law of family!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     The law of tribe!
+
+     {The People}
+     The law of tribe!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     The law of totem!
+
+     {The People}
+     The law of totem!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     And madest us strong in the world among men!
+
+     {The People}
+     And madest us strong in the world among men!
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Life is good, O Shaman, and I have sung but
+     half its song. Acorns are good. So is woman
+     good. Strength is good. Beauty is good. So is
+     kindness good. Yet are all these things without
+     power except for woman. And by these things
+     woman makes strong men, and strong men make
+     for life, ever for more life.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(With gesture of interruption that causes
+     remonstrance from the Shaman but which
+     Red Cloud acknowledges.)_
+
+     I care not for beauty. I desire strength in
+     battle and wind in the chase that I may kill my
+     enemy and run down my meat.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Well spoken, O War Chief. By voices in
+     council we learn our minds, and that, too, is
+     strength. Also, is it kindness. For kindness
+     and strength and beauty are one. The eagle in
+     the high blue of the sky is beautiful. The salmon
+     leaping the white water in the sunlight is beautiful.
+     The young man fastest of foot in the race
+     is beautiful. And because they fly well, and leap
+     well, and run well, are they beautiful. Beauty
+     must beget beauty. The ring-tail cat begets
+     the ring-tail cat, the dove the dove. Never
+     does the dove beget the ring-tail cat. Hearts
+     must be kind. The little turtle is not kind.
+     That is why it is the little turtle. It lays its
+     eggs in the sun-warm sand and forgets its young
+     forever. And the little turtle is forever the
+     Kttle turtle. But we are not little turtles,
+     because we are kind. We do not leave our young
+     to the sun in the sand. Our women keep our
+     young warm under their hearts, and, after, they
+     keep them warm with deer-skin and campfire.
+     Because we are kind we are men and not little
+     turtles, and that is why we eat the little turtle
+     that is not strong because it is not kind.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Gesturing to be heard.)_
+     The Modoc come against us in their strength.
+     Often the Modoc come against us. We cannot
+     be kind to the Modoc.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     That will come after. Kindness grows. First
+     must we be kind to our own. After, long after,
+     all men will be kind to all men, and all men will
+     be very strong. The strength of the Nishinam
+     is not the strength of its strongest fighter. It is
+     the strength of all the Nishinam added together
+     that makes the Nishinam strong. We talk, you
+     and I, War Chief and First Man, because we are
+     kind one to the other, and thus we add together
+     our wisdom, and all the Nishinam are stronger
+     because we have talked.
+
+     _(A voice is heard singing. Red Cloud
+     holds up his hand for silence.)_
+
+
+     MATING SONG
+
+     {Dew-Woman}
+     In the morning by the river,
+        In the evening at the fire,
+     In the night when all lay sleeping,
+        Torn was I with life's desire.
+     There were stirrings 'neath my heart-beats
+        Of the dreams that came to me;
+     In my ears were whispers, voices,
+        Of the children yet to be.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(As Red Cloud sings, Dew-Woman
+     steals from behind a tree and approaches
+     him.)_
+
+     In the morning by the river
+        Saw I first my maid of dew,
+     Daughter of the dew and dawnlight,
+        Of the dawn and honey-dew.
+     She was laughter, she was sunlight,
+        Woman, maid, and mate, and wife;
+     She was sparkle, she was gladness,
+        She was all the song of life.
+
+     {Dew-Woman}
+     In the night I built my fire,
+        Fire that maidens foster when
+     In the ripe of mating season
+        Each builds for her man of men.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     In the night I sought her, proved her,
+        Found her ease, content, and rest,
+     After day of toil and struggle
+        Man's reward on woman's breast.
+
+     {Dew-Woman}
+     Came to me my mate and lover;
+        Kind the hands he laid on me;
+     Wooed me gently as a man may,
+        Father of the race to be.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Soft her arms about me bound me,
+        First man of the Nishinam,
+     Arms as soft as dew and dawnlight,
+        Daughter of the Nishinam.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     She was life and she was woman!
+
+     {Dew-Woman}
+     He was life and he was man!
+
+     {Red Cloud} and Dew-Woman
+
+     _(Arms about each other.)_
+     In the dusk-time of our love-night,
+        There beside the marriage fire,
+     Proved we all the sweets of living,
+        In the arms of our desire.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Angrily.)_
+     The councils of men are not the place for
+     women.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Gently.)_
+     As men grow kind and wise there will be
+     women in the councils of men. As men grow
+     their women must grow with them if they would
+     continue to be the mothers of men.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     It is told of old time that there are women in
+     the councils of the Sim. And is it not told that
+     the Sun Man will destroy us?
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Then is the Sun Man the stronger; it may be
+     because of his kindness and wiseness, and because
+     of his women.
+
+     {Young Brave}
+     Is it told that the women of the Sun are good
+     to the eye, soft to the arm, and a fire in the heart
+     of man?
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Holding up hand solemnly.)_
+     It were well, lest the young do not forget, to
+     repeat the old word again.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Nodding confirmation.)_
+     Here, where the tale is told.
+
+     _(Pointing to the spring.)_
+     Here, where the water burst from under the heel
+     of the Sun Man mounting into the sky.
+
+     _(War Chief leads the way up the hillside
+     to the spring, and signals to the Old Man
+     to begin)_
+
+     {Old Man}
+     When the world was in the making,
+     Here within the mighty forest,
+     Came the Sun Man every morning.
+     White and shining was the Sun Man,
+     Blue his eyes were as the sky-blue,
+     Bright his hair was as dry grass is,
+     Warm his eyes were as the sun is,
+     Fruit and flower were in his glances;
+     All he looked on grew and sprouted,
+     As these trees we see about us,
+     Mightiest trees in all the forest,
+     For the Sun Man looked upon them.
+
+     Where his glance fell grasses seeded,
+     Where his feet fell sprang upstarting--
+     Buckeye woods and hazel thickets,
+     Berry bushes, manzanita,
+     Till his pathway was a garden,
+     Flowing after like a river,
+     Laughing into bud and blossom.
+     There was never frost nor famine
+     And the Nishinam were happy,
+     Singing, dancing through the seasons,
+     Never cold and never hungered,
+     When the Sun Man lived among us.
+
+     But the foxes mean and cunning,
+     Hating Nishinam and all men,
+     Laid their snares within this forest,
+     Caught the Sun Man in the morning,
+     With their ropes of sinew caught him,
+     Bound him down to steal his wisdom
+     And become themselves bright Sun Men,
+     Warm of glance and fruitful-footed,
+     Masters of the frost and famine.
+
+     Swiftly the Coyote running
+     Came to aid the fallen Sun Man,
+     Swiftly killed the cunning foxes,
+     Swiftly cut the ropes of sinew,
+     Swiftly the Coyote freed him.
+
+     But the Sun Man in his anger,
+     Lightning flashing, thunder-throwing,
+     Loosed the frost and fanged the famine,
+     Thorned the bushes, pinched the berries,
+     Put the bitter in the buckeye,
+     Rocked the mountains to their summits,
+     Flung the hills into the valleys,
+     Sank the lakes and shoaled the rivers,
+     Poured the fresh sea in the salt sea,
+     Stamped his foot here in the forest,
+     Where the water burst from under
+     Heel that raised him into heaven--
+     Angry with the world forever
+     Rose the Sun Man into heaven.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Solemnly.)_
+     I am the Shaman. I know what has gone
+     before and what will come after. I have passed
+     down through the gateway of death and talked
+     with the dead. My eyes have looked upon the
+     unseen things. My ears have heard the
+     unspoken words. And now I shall tell you of
+     the Sun Man in the days to come.
+
+     _(Shaman stiffens suddenly with hideous
+     facial distortions, with inturned eye-balls
+     and loosened jaw. He waves his arms
+     about, writhes and twists in torment, as
+     if in epilepsy.)_
+
+     _(The Women break into a wailing, inarticulate
+     chant, swaying their bodies to the
+     accent. The men join them somewhat
+     reluctantly, all save Red Cloud, who
+     betrays vexation, and War Chief, who
+     betrays truculence.)_
+
+     _(Shaman, leading the rising frenzy, with
+     convulsive shiverings and tremblings tears
+     of his skin garments so that he is quite
+     naked save for a girdle of eagle-claws
+     about his thighs. His long black hair
+     flies about his face. With an abruptness
+     that is startling, he ceases all movement
+     and stands erect, rigid. This is greeted
+     with a low moaning that slowly dies
+     away.)_
+
+
+     CHANT OF PROPHECY
+
+     {Shaman}
+     The Sun never grows cold.
+     The Sun Man is like the Sun.
+     His anger never grows cold.
+     The Sun Man will return.
+     The Sun Man will come back from the Sun.
+
+     {People}
+     The Sun Man will return.
+     The Sun Man will come back from the Sun.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     There is a sign.
+     As the water burst forth when he rose into the sky,
+     So will the water cease to flow when he returns from the sky.
+     The Sun Man is mighty.
+     In his eyes is blue fire.
+     In his hands he bears the thunder.
+     The lightnings are in his hair.
+
+     {People}
+     In his hands he bears the thunder.
+     The lightnings are in his hair.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man is white.
+     His skin is white like the sun.
+     His hair is bright like the sunlight.'
+     His eyes are blue like the sky.
+
+     {People}
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man is white.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     The Sun Man is mighty.
+     He is the enemy of the Nishinam.
+     He will destroy the Nishinam.
+
+     {People}
+     He is the enemy of the Nishinam.
+     He will destroy the Nishinam.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.
+
+     {People}
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     In the day the Sun Man comes
+     The water from the spring will no longer flow.
+     And in that day he will destroy the Nishinam.
+     With the thunder will he destroy the Nishinam.
+     The Nishinam will be like last year's grasses.
+     The Nishinam will be like the smoke of last year's campfires.
+     The Nishinam will be less than the dreams that trouble the sleeper.
+     The Nishinam will be like the days no man remembers.
+     I am the Shaman.
+     I have spoken.
+
+     _(The People set up a sad wailing.)_
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Striking his chest with his fist.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     _(The People cease from their wailing and
+     look to the War Chief with hopeful
+     expectancy.)_
+
+     {War Chief}
+     I am the War Chief. In war I command.
+     Nor the Shaman nor Red Cloud may say me nay
+     when in war I command. Let the Sun Man
+     come back. I am not afraid. If the foxes snared
+     him with ropes, then can I slay him with spear-
+     thrust and war-club. I am the War Chief. In
+     war I command.
+
+     _(The People greet War Chief's pronouncement
+     with warlike cries of approval.)_
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     The foxes are cunning. If they snared the Sun Man
+     With ropes of sinew, then let us be cunning
+     And snare him with ropes of kindness.
+     In kindness, O War Chief, is strength, much strength.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     Red Cloud speaks true. In kindness is strength.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     I am the War Chief.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     You cannot slay the Sun Man.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     I am the War Chief.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     The Sun Man fights with the thunder in his hand.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     I am the War Chief.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(As he speaks the People are visibly wan by
+     his argument.)_
+
+     You speak true, O War Chief. In war you
+     command. You are strong, most strong. You
+     have slain the Modoc. You have slain the Napa.
+     You have slain the Clam-Eaters of the big water
+     till the last one is not. Yet you have not slain
+     all the foxes. The foxes cannot fight, yet are
+     they stronger than you because you cannot slay
+     them. The foxes are foxes, but we are men.
+     When the Sun Man comes we will not be cunning
+     like the foxes. We will be kind. Kindness and
+     love will we give to the Sun Man, so that he will
+     be our friend. Then will he melt the frost, pull
+     the teeth of famine, give us back our rivers of
+     deep water, our lakes of sweet water, take the
+     bitter from the buckeye, and in all ways make
+     the world the good world it was before he left us.
+
+     {People}
+     Hail, Red Cloud, the first man!
+     Hail, Red Cloud, the Acorn-Planter!
+     Who showed us the way of our feet in the world!
+     Who showed us the way of our food in the world!
+     Who showed us the way of our hearts in the world!
+     Who gave us the law of family,
+     The law of tribe,
+     The law of totem,
+     And made us strong in the world among men!
+
+     _(While the People sing the hillside slowly
+     grows dark.)_
+
+
+
+
+     ACT I
+
+     _(Ten thousand years have passed, and it is
+     the time of the early voyaging from Europe
+     to the waters of the Pacific, when the
+     deserted hillside is again revealed as the
+     moon rises. The stream no longer flows
+     from the spring. Since the grove is used
+     only as a camp for the night when the
+     Nishinam are on their seasonal migration
+     there are no signs of previous camps.)_
+
+     _(Enter from right, at end of day's march,
+     women, old men, and Shaman, the
+     women bending under their burdens of
+     camp gear and dunnage)_
+
+     _(Enter from left youths carrying fish-spears
+     and large fish)_
+
+     _(Appear, coming down the hillside, Red
+     Cloud and the hunters, many carrying
+     meat.)_
+
+     _(The various repeated characters, despite
+     differences of skin garmenting and decoration,
+     resemble their prototypes of the prologue.)_
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Good hunting! Good hunting!
+
+     {Hunters}
+     Good hunting! Good hunting!
+
+     {Youths}
+     Good fishing! Good fishing!
+
+     {Women}
+     Good berries! Good acorns!
+
+     _(The women and youths and hunters, as they
+     reach the campsite, begin throwing down
+     their burdens)_
+
+     {Dew-Woman}
+     _(Discovering the dry spring.)_
+     The water no longer flows!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Stilling the excitement that is immediate
+     on the discovery.)_
+     The word of old time that has come down to
+     us from all the Shamans who have gone before!
+     The Sun Man has come back from the Sun.
+
+     {Dew-Woman}
+     _(Looking to Red Cloud.)_
+     Let Red Cloud speak. Since the morning of
+     the world has Red Cloud ever been reborn with
+     the ancient wisdom to guide us.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     Save in war. In war I command.
+
+     _(He picks out hunters by name.)_
+     Deer Foot... Elk Man... Antelope. Run
+     through the forest, climb the hill-tops, seek down
+     the valleys, for aught you may find of this Sun Man.
+
+     _(At a wave of the War Chief's hand the
+     three hunters depart in different directions.)_
+
+     {Dew-Woman}
+     Let Red Cloud speak his mind.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Quietly)_
+     Last night the earth shook and there was a
+     roaring in the air. Often have I seen, when the
+     earth shakes and there is a roaring, that springs
+     in some places dry up, and that in other places
+     where were no springs, springs burst forth.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     There is a sign.
+     The Shamans told it of old.
+     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.
+
+     {People}
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     The roaring in the air was the thunder of the
+     Sun Man's return. Now will he destroy the
+     Nishinam. Such is the word.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     _(From right Deer Foot runs in.)_
+
+     {Deer Foot}
+     _(Breathless.)_
+     They come! He comes!
+
+     {War Chief}
+     Who comes?
+
+     {Deer Foot}
+     The Sun Men. The Sun Man. He is their
+     chief. He marches before them. And he is
+     white.
+
+     {People}
+     There is a sign.
+     The Sun Man is white.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Carries he the thunder in his hand?
+
+     {Deer Foot}
+     _(Puzzled)_
+     He looks hungry.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     Hoh! Hoh! The Sun Man is hungry. It
+     will be easy to kill a hungry Sun Man.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     It would be easy to be kind to a hungry Sun
+     Man and give him food. We have much. The
+     hunting has been good.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     Better to kill the Sun Man.
+
+     _(He turns upon People, indicating most
+     commands in gestures as he prepares the
+     ambush, making women and boys conceal
+     all the camp outfit and game, and
+     disposing the armed hunters among the
+     ferns and behind trees till all are hidden.)_
+
+     {Elk Man and Antelope}
+     _(Running down hillside)_
+     The Sun Man comes.
+
+     _(War Chief sends them to hiding places)_
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Preparing himself to hide)_
+     You have not hidden, O Red Cloud.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Stepping into shadow of big tree where he
+     remains inconspicuous though dimly
+     visible)_
+     I would see this Sun Man and talk with him.
+
+     _(The sound of singing is heard, and War
+     Chief conceals himself)_
+
+     _(Sun Man, with handful of followers, singing
+     to ease the tedium of the march, enter
+     from right. They are patently survivors
+     of a wrecked exploring skip, making their
+     way inland)_
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     We sailed three hundred strong
+        For the far Barbaree;
+     Our voyage has been most long
+        For the far Barbaree;
+           So--it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+     For the far Barbaree.
+
+     We sailed the oceans wide
+        For the coast of Barbaree;
+     And left our ship a sinking
+        On the coast of Barbaree;
+           So--it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     Our ship went fast a-lee
+        On the rocks of Barbaree;
+     That's why we quit the sea
+        On the rocks of Barbaree.
+           So--it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     We quit the bitter seas
+        On the coast of Barbaree;
+     To seek the savag-ees
+        Of the far Barbaree.
+           So--it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     Our feet are lame and sore
+        In the far Barbaree;
+     From treading of the shore
+        Of the far Barbaree.
+           So--it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     A weary brood are we
+        In the far Barbaree;
+     Sea cunies of the sea
+        In the far Barbaree.
+           So--it's a long pull,
+           Give a strong pull,
+        For the far Barbaree.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(Who alone carries a musket, and who is
+     evidently captain of the wrecked company)_
+     No farther can we go this night. Mayhap
+     to-morrow we may find the savages and food.
+
+     _(He glances about.)_
+     This far world grows noble trees. We shall sleep
+     as in a temple.
+
+     {First Sea Cuny}
+     _(Espying Red Cloud, and pointing.)_
+     Look, Captain!
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(Making the universal peace-sign, arm
+     raised and out, palm-outward.)_
+     Who are you? Speak. We come in peace.
+     We kindness seek.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Advancing out of the shadow.)_
+     Whence do you come?
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     From the great sea.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     I do not understand. No one journeys
+     on the great sea.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     We have journeyed many moons.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Have you come from the sun?
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     God wot! We have journeyed across the
+     sun, high and low in the sky, and over the sun
+     and under the sun the round world 'round.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(With conviction.)_
+     You come from the Sun. Your hair is like
+     the summer sunburnt grasses. Your eyes are
+     blue. Your skin is white.
+
+     _(With absolute conviction.)_
+     You are the Sun Man.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(With a shrug of shoulders.)_
+     Have it so. I come from the Sun. I am the
+     Sun Man.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Do you carry the thunder in your hand?
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(Nonplussed for the moment, glances at
+     his musket, then smiles.)_
+     Yes, I carry the thunder in my hand.
+
+     _(War Chief and the Hunters leap
+     suddenly from ambush. Sun Man
+     warns Sea Cunies not to resist. War
+     Chief captures and holds Sun Man,
+     and Sea Cunies are similarly captured
+     and held. Women and boys appear, and
+     examine prisoners curiously.)_
+
+     {War Chief}
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh! I have captured the
+     Sun Man! Like the foxes, I have captured
+     the Sun Man!--Deer Foot! Elk Man! The
+     foxes held the Sun Man. I now hold the Sun
+     Man. Then can you hold the Sun Man.
+
+     _(Deer Foot and Elk Man seize the Sun
+     Man.)_
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(To Shaman.)_
+     He said he came in kindness.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Sneering.)_
+     In kindness, with the thunder in his hand.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Deflected to partisanship of War Chief
+     by War Chief's success.)_
+     By his own lips has he said it, with the thunder
+     in his hand.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     You are the Sun Man.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(Shrugging shoulders.)_
+     My names are many as the stars. Call me
+     White Man.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     I am Red Cloud, the first man.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Then am I Adam, the first man and your
+     brother.
+
+     _(Glancing about.)_
+     And this is Eden, to look upon it.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     My father was the Coyote.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     My father was Jehovah.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     I am the Fire-Bringer. I stole the fire from
+     the ground squirrel and hid it in the heart of
+     the wood.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Then am I Prometheus, your brother. I
+     stole the fire from heaven and hid it in the heart
+     of the wood.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     I am the Acorn-Planter. I am the Food-
+     Bringer, the Life-Maker. I make food for
+     more life, ever more life.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Then am I truly your brother. Life-Maker
+     am I, tilling the soil in the sweat of my brow
+     from the beginning of time, planting all manner
+     of good seeds for the harvest.
+
+     _(Looking sharply at Red Cloud's skin
+     garments.)_
+     Also am I the Weaver and Cloth-Maker.
+
+     _(Holding out arm so that Red Cloud may
+     examine the cloth of the coat)_
+     From the hair of the goat and the wool of
+     the sheep, and from beaten and spun grasses,
+     do I make the cloth to keep man warm.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Breaking in boastfully.)_
+     I am the Shaman. I know all secret things.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     I know my pathway under the sun over all
+     the seas, and I know the secrets of the stars
+     that show me my path where no path is. I
+     know when the Wolf of Darkness shall eat the
+     moon.
+
+     _(Pointing toward moon.)_
+     On this night shall the Wolf of Darkness eat
+     the moon.
+
+     _(He turns suddenly to Red Cloud,
+     drawing sheath-knife and passing it
+     to him.)_
+
+     More, O First Man and Acorn-Planter. I am
+     the Iron-Maker. Behold!
+
+     _(Red Cloud examines knife, understands
+     immediately its virtue, cuts easily a strip
+     of skin from his skin garment, and is
+     overcome with the wonder of the knife.)_
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Exhibiting a long bow.)_
+     I am the War Chief. No man, save me, has
+     strength to bend this bow. I can slay farther
+     than any man.
+
+     _(A huge bear has come out among the
+     bushes far up the hillside)_
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     I, too, am War Chief over men, and I can
+     slay farther than you.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(Pointing to bear)_
+     Can you slay that with your strong bow?
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Dubiously)_
+     It is a far shot. Too far. No man can slay
+     a great bear so far.
+
+     _(Sun Man, shaking off from his arms the
+     hands of Deer Foot and Elk Man,
+     aims musket and fires. The bear falls,
+     and the Nishinam betray astonishment
+     and awe)_
+
+     _(At a quick signal from War Chief,
+     Sun Man is again seized. War Chief
+     takes away musket and examines it.)_
+
+     {Shaman}
+     There is a sign.
+
+     {People}
+     There is a sign.
+     He carries the thunder in his hand.
+     He slays with the thunder in his hand.
+     He is the enemy of the Nishinam.
+     He will destroy the Nishinam.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     There is a sign.
+
+     {People}
+     There is a sign.
+     In the day the Sun Man comes,
+     The waters from the spring will no longer flow,
+     And in that day will he destroy the Nishinam.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Exhibiting musket.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! I have taken the Sun Man's
+     thunder.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     Now shall the Sun Man die that the Nishinam
+     may live.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     He is our brother. He, too, is an acorn-
+     planter. He has spoken.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     He is the Sun Man, and he is our eternal
+     enemy. He shall die.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     In war I command.
+
+     _(To Hunters.)_
+     Tie their feet with stout thongs that they
+     may not run. And then make ready with bow
+     and arrow to do the deed.
+
+     _(Hunters obey, urging and thrusting the
+     Sea Cunies into a compact group behind
+     the Sun Man.)_
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Shaman I am not.
+     I know not the secret things.
+     I say the things I know.
+     When you plant kindness you harvest kindness.
+     When you plant blood you harvest blood.
+     He who plants one acorn makes way for life.
+     He who slays one man slays the planter of a
+     thousand acorns.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     Shaman I am.
+     I see the dark future.
+     I see the Sun Man's death,
+     The journey he must take
+     Through thick and endless forest
+     Where lost souls wander howling
+     A thousand moons of moons.
+
+     {People}
+     Through thick and endless forest
+     Where lost souls wander howling
+     A thousand moons of moons.
+
+     _(War Chief arranges Hunters with their
+     bows and arrows for the killing.)_
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(To Red Cloud.)_
+     You will slay us?
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Indicating War Chief.)_
+     In war he commands.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(Addressing the Nishinam)_
+     Nor am I a Shaman. But I will tell you true
+     things to be. Our brothers are acorn-planters,
+     cloth-weavers, iron-workers. Our brothers are
+     life-makers and masters of life. Many are our
+     brothers and strong. They will come after us.
+     Your First Man has spoken true words. When
+     you plant blood you harvest blood. Our brothers
+     will come to the harvest with the thunder
+     in their hands. There is a sign. This night,
+     and soon, will the Wolf of Darkness eat the
+     moon. And by that sign will our brothers come
+     on the trail we have broken.
+
+     _(As final preparation for the killing is
+     completed, and as Hunters are arranged
+     with their bows and arrows,
+     Sun Man sings.)_
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Our brothers will come after,
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+
+     {Sun Men}
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Givers of law, our brothers,
+        This is the law they say:
+     Who takes the life of a brother
+        Ten of the slayers shall pay.
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     Our brothers will come after,
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Our brothers will come after
+        By the courses that we lay;
+     Many and strong our brothers,
+        Masters of life are they.
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     Our brothers will come after
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Plowers of land, our brothers,
+        Of the hills and pleasant leas;
+     Under the sun our brothers
+        With their keels will plow the seas.
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     Our brothers will come after,
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Mighty men are our brothers,
+        Quick to forgive and to wrath,
+     Sailing the seas, our brothers
+        Will follow us on our path.
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     Our brothers will come after,
+        On our trail to farthest lands;
+     Our brothers will come after
+        With the thunder in their hands.
+           Loud will be the weeping,
+           Red will be the reaping,
+           High will be the heaping
+        Of the slain their law commands.
+
+     _(At signal from War Chief the arrows
+     are discharged, and repeatedly
+     discharged. The Sun Men fall. The War
+     Chief himself kills the Sun Man.)_
+
+     _(In what follows, Red Cloud and Dew-
+     Woman stand aside, taking no part.
+     Red Cloud is depressed, and at the
+     same time is overcome with the wonder
+     of the knife which he still holds.)_
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Brandishing musket and drifting stiff-
+     legged, as he sings, into the beginning
+     of a war dance of victory.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     I have slain the Sun Man!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     I hold his thunder in my hand!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     Greatest of War Chiefs am I!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     I have slain the Sun Man!
+
+     _(The dance grows wilder.)_
+
+     _(After a time the hillside begins to darken)_
+
+     {Dew-Woman}
+     _(Pointing to the moon entering eclipse)_
+     Lo! The Wolf of Darkness eats the Moon!
+
+     _(In consternation the dance is broken off
+     for the moment)_
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Reassuringly)_
+     It is a sign.
+     The Sun Man is dead.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Recovering courage and resuming dance.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man is dead!
+
+     {People}
+     _(Resuming dance.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man is dead!
+
+     _(As darkness increases the dance grows
+     into a saturnalia, until complete darkness
+     settles down and hides the hillside.)_
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+     _(A hundred years have passed, when the
+     hillside and the Nishinam in their
+     temporary camp are revealed. The spring
+     is flowing, and Women are filling gourds
+     with water. Red Cloud and Dew-
+     Woman stand apart from their people.)_
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Pointing.)_
+     There is a sign.
+     The spring lives.
+     The water flows from the spring
+     And all is well with the Nishinam.
+
+     {People}
+     There is a sign.
+     The spring lives.
+     The water flows from the spring.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Boastingly.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     All is well with the Nishinam.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     It is I who have made all well with the Nishinam.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     I led our young men against the Napa.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     We left no man living of the camp.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     {Shaman}
+     Great is our War Chief!
+     Good is war!
+     No more will the Napa hunt our meat.
+     No more will the Napa pick our berries.
+     No more will the Napa catch our fish.
+
+     {People}
+     No more will the Napa hunt our meat.
+     No more will the Napa pick our berries.
+     No more will the Napa catch our fish.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The War Chiefs before me made all well with
+     the Nishinam.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The War Chief of long ago slew the Sun Man.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man said his brothers would come after.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man lied.
+
+     {People}
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man lied.
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man lied.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     _(Derisively.)_
+     Red Cloud is sick. He lives in dreams. Ever
+     he dreams of the wonders of the Sun Man.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     The Sun Man was strong. The Sun Man was
+     a life-maker. The Sun Man planted acorns,
+     and cut quickly with a knife not of bone nor
+     stone, and of grasses and hides made cunning
+     cloth that is better than all grasses and hides.
+     --Old Man, where is the cunning cloth that is
+     better than all grasses and hides?
+
+     {Old Man}
+     _(Fumbling in his skin pouch for the doth.)_
+     In the many moons aforetime,
+     Hundred moons and many hundred,
+     When the old man was the young man,
+     When the young man was the youngling,
+     Dragging branches for the campfire,
+     Stealing suet from the bear-meat,
+     Cause of trouble to his mother,
+     Came the Sun Man in the night-time.
+     I alone of all the Nishinam
+     Live to-day to tell the story;
+     I alone of all the Nishinam
+     Saw the Sun Man come among us,
+     Heard the Sun Man and his Sun Men
+     Sing their death-song here among us
+     Ere they died beneath our arrows,
+     War Chief's arrows sharp and feathered--
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Interrupting braggartly.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+
+     {Old Man}
+     _(Producing cloth.)_
+     And the Sun Man and his Sun Men
+     Wore nor hair nor hide nor birdskin.
+     Cloth they wore from beaten grasses
+     Woven like our willow baskets,
+     Willow-woven acorn baskets
+     Women make in acorn season.
+
+     _(Old Man hands piece of cloth to Red
+     Cloud.)_
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Admiring cloth.)_
+     The Sun Man was an acorn-planter, and we
+     killed the Sun Man. We were not kind. We
+     made a blood-debt. Blood-debts are not good.
+
+     {Shaman}
+     The Sun Man lied. His brothers did not come
+     after. There is no blood-debt when there is no
+     one to make us pay.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     He who plants acorns reaps food, and food is
+     life. He who sows war reaps war, and war is death.
+
+     {People}
+     _(Encouraged by Shaman and War Chief
+     to drown out Red Cloud's voice.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man is dead!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     The Sun Man and his Sun Men are dead!
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Shaking his head.)_
+     His brothers of the Sun are coming after.
+     I have reports.
+
+     _(Red Cloud beckons one after another of
+     the young hunters to speak)_
+
+     {First Hunter}
+     To the south, not far, I wandered and lived
+     with the Petaluma. With my eyes I did not
+     see, but it was told me by those whose eyes had
+     seen, that still to the south, not far, were many
+     Sun Men--war chiefs who carry the thunder in
+     their hands; cloth-makers and weavers of cloth
+     like to that in Red Cloud's hand; acorn-planters
+     who plant all manner of strange seeds that ripen
+     to rich harvests of food that is good. And there
+     had been trouble. The Petaluma had killed
+     Sun Men, and many Petaluma had the Sun Men
+     killed.
+
+     {Second Hunter}
+     To the east, not far, I wandered and lived with
+     the Solano. With my own eyes I did not see,
+     but it was told me by those whose eyes had seen,
+     that still to the east, not far, and just beyond the
+     lands of the Tule tribes, were many Sun Men--
+     war chiefs and cloth-makers and acorn-planters.
+     And there had been trouble. The Solano had
+     killed Sun Men, and many Solano had the Sun Men killed.
+
+     {Third Hunter}
+     To the north, and far, I wandered and lived
+     with the Klamath. With my own eyes I did
+     not see, but it was told me by those whose eyes
+     had seen, that still to the north, and far, were
+     many Sun Men--war chiefs and cloth-makers
+     and acorn-planters. And there had been trouble.
+     The Klamath had killed Sun Men, and many
+     Klamath had the Sun Men killed.
+
+     {Fourth Hunter}
+     To the west, not far, three days gone I
+     wandered, where, from the mountain, I looked
+     down upon the great sea. With my own eyes
+     I saw. It was like a great bird that swam upon
+     the water. It had great wings like to our great
+     trees here. And on its back I saw men, many
+     men, and they were Sun Men. With my own
+     eyes I saw.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     We shall be kind to the Sun Men when they
+     come among us.
+
+     {War Chief}
+     _(Dancing stiff-legged.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     Let the Sun Men come!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     We will kill the Sun Men when they come!
+
+     {People}
+     _(As they join in the war dance.)_
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     Let the Sun Men come!
+     Hoh! Hoh! Hoh!
+     We will kill the Sun Men when they come.
+
+     _(The dance grows wilder, the Shaman and
+     War Chief encouraging it, while Red
+     Cloud and Dew-Woman stand sadly at
+     a distance.)_
+
+     _(Rifle shots ring out from every side. Up
+     the hillside appear Sun Men firing rifles.
+     The Nishinam reel to death from their
+     dancing.)_
+
+     _(Red Cloud shields Dew-Woman with
+     one arm about her, and with the other arm
+     makes the peace-sign)_
+
+     _(The massacre is complete, Dew-Woman
+     and Red Cloud being the last to fall.
+     Red Cloud, wounded, the sole survivor,
+     rests on his elbow and watches the Sun
+     Men assemble about their leader)_
+
+     _(The Sun Men are the type of pioneer
+     Americans who, even before the discovery
+     of gold, were already drifting across the
+     Sierras and down into Oregon and
+     California with their oxen and great wagons.
+     With here and there a Rocky Mountain
+     trapper or a buckskin-clad scout of the
+     Kit Carson type, in the main they are
+     backwoods farmers. All carry the long
+     rifle of the period.)_
+
+     _(The Sun Man is buckskin-clad, with long
+     blond hair sweeping his shoulders.)_
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     _(Led by Sun Man.)_
+     We crossed the Western Ocean
+        Three hundred years ago,
+     We cleared New England's forests
+        Three hundred years ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     We cleared New England's forests
+        Three hundred years ago.
+
+     We climbed the Alleghanies
+        Two hundred years ago,
+     We reached the Susquehanna
+        Two hundred years ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     We reached the Susquehanna
+        Two hundred years ago.
+
+     We crossed the Mississippi
+        One hundred years ago,
+     And glimpsed the Rocky Mountains
+        One hundred years ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     And glimpsed the Rocky Mountains
+        One hundred years ago.
+
+     We passed the Rocky Mountains
+        A year or so ago,
+     And crossed the salty deserts
+        A year or so ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     And crossed the salty deserts
+        A year or so ago.
+
+     We topped the high Sierras
+        But a few days ago,
+     And saw great California
+        But a few days ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     And saw great California
+        But a few days ago.
+
+     We crossed Sonoma's mountains
+        An hour or so ago,
+     And found this mighty forest
+        An hour or so ago.
+           Blow high, blow low,
+           Heigh hi, heigh ho,
+     And found this mighty forest
+        An hour or so ago.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(Glancing about at the slain and at the giant
+     forest.)_
+     Good the day, good the deed, and good this
+     California land.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Not with these eyes, but with other eyes in my
+     lives before, have I beheld you. You are the
+     Sun Man.
+
+     _(The attention of all is drawn to Red
+     Cloud, and they group about him and the
+     Sun Man.)_
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Call me White Man. Though in truth we
+     follow the sun. All our lives have we followed
+     the sunset sun, as our fathers followed it before
+     us.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     And you slay us with the thunder in your hand.
+     You slay us because we slew your brothers.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     _(Nodding to Red Cloud and addressing
+     his own followers)_
+     You see, it was no mistake. He confesses it.
+     Other white men have they slain.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     There will come a day when men will not slay
+     men and when all men will be brothers. And in
+     that day all men will plant acorns.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     You speak well, brother.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Ever was I for peace, but in war I did not command.
+     Ever I sought the secrets of the growing
+     things, the times and seasons for planting. Ever
+     I planted acorns, making two black oak trees
+     grow where one grew before. And now all is
+     ended. Oh my black oak acorns! My black
+     oak acorns! Who will plant them now?
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Be of good cheer. We, too, are planters.
+     Rich is your land here. Not from poor soil can
+     such trees sprout heavenward. We will plant
+     many seeds and grow mighty harvests.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     I planted the short acorns in the valley. I
+     planted the long acorns in the valley. I made
+     food for life.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     You planted well, brother, but not well enough.
+     It is for that reason that you pass. Your fat
+     valley grows food but for a handful of men. We
+     shall plant your fat valley and grow food for ten
+     thousand men.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Ever I counseled peace and planting.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Some day all men will counsel peace. No
+     man will slay his fellow. All men will plant.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     But before that day you will slay, as you have
+     this day slain us?
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     You killed our brothers first. Blood-debts must
+     be paid. It is man's way upon the earth. But
+     more, O brother! We follow the sunset sun, and
+     the way before us is red with war. The way
+     behind us is white with peace. Ever, before
+     us, we make room for life. Ever we slay the
+     squalling crawling things of the wild. Ever we
+     clear the land and destroy the weeds that block
+     the way of life for the seeds we plant. We are
+     many, and many are our brothers that come after
+     along the way of peace we blaze. Where you
+     make two black oaks grow in the place of one,
+     we make an hundred. And where we make one
+     grow, our brothers who come after make an
+     hundred hundred.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Truly are you the Sun Man. We knew about
+     you of old time. Our old men knew and sang of
+     you:
+
+     White and shining was the Sun Man,
+     Blue his eyes were as the sky-blue,
+     Bright his hair was as dry grass is,
+     Warm his eyes were as the sun is,
+     Fruit and flower were in his glances,
+     All he looked on grew and sprouted,
+     Where his glance fell grasses seeded,
+     Where his feet fell sprang upstarting
+     Buckeye woods and hazel thickets,
+     Berry bushes, manzanita,
+     Till his pathway was a garden,
+     Flowing after like a river
+     Laughing into bud and blossom.
+
+
+     SONG OF THE PIONEERS
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze.
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+           Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers' hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+        Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+           Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     We cleared New England's flinty slopes and plowed
+     Her rocky fields to fairness in the sun,
+     But fared we westward always for we sought
+     A land of golden richness and we knew
+     The land was waiting on the sunset trail.
+     Where we found forest we left fertile fields,
+     We bridled rivers wild to grind our corn,
+     The deer-paths turned to roadways at our heels,
+     Our axes felled the trees that bridged the streams,
+     And fenced the meadow pastures for our kine.
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze;
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+        Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers' hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+        Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+           Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     Beyond the Mississippi still we fared,
+     And rested weary by the River Platte
+     Until the young grass velveted the Plains,
+     Then yoked again our oxen to the trail
+     That ever led us west to farthest west.
+     Our women toiled beside us, and our young,
+     And helped to break the soil and plant the corn,
+     And fought beside us in the battle front
+     To fight of arrow, whine of bullet, when
+     We chained our circled wagons wheel to wheel.
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze;
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+           Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+        Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+           Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+
+     {Sun Man}
+     The rivers sank beneath the desert sand,
+     The tall pines dwarfed to sage-brush, and the grass
+     Grew sparse and bitter in the alkali,
+     But fared we always toward the setting sun.
+     Our oxen famished till the last one died
+     And our great wagons rested in the snow.
+     We climbed the high Sierras and looked down
+     From winter bleak upon the land we sought,
+     A sunny land, a rich and fruitful land,
+     The warm and golden California land.
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze;
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+           Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers' hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+     Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+        Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+
+     _(The hillside begins to darken.)_
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     _(Faintly.)_
+
+     The darkness is upon me. You are acorn-
+     planters. You are my brothers. The darkness
+     is upon me and I pass.
+
+     {Sun Men}
+     _(As total darkness descends.)_
+     Our brothers follow on the trail we blaze;
+        Where howled the wolf and ached the naked plain
+           Spring bounteous harvests at our brothers' hands;
+     In place of war's alarums, peaceful days;
+        Above the warrior's grave the golden grain
+           Turns deserts grim and stark to laughing lands.
+
+
+
+
+EPILOGUE
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Good tidings! Good tidings
+     To the sons of men!
+     Good tidings! Good tidings!
+     War is dead!
+
+     _(Light begins to suffuse the hillside, revealing
+     Red Cloud far up the hillside in a
+     commanding position on an out-jut of
+     rock.)_
+     Lo, the New Day dawns,
+     The day of brotherhood,
+     The day when all men
+     Shall be kind to all men,
+     And all men shall be sowers of life.
+
+     _(From every side a burst of voices.)_
+     Hail to Red Cloud!
+     The Acorn-Planter!
+     The Life-Maker!
+     Hail! All hail!
+     The New Day dawns,
+     The day of brotherhood,
+     The day of man.
+
+     _(A band of Warriors appears on hillside.)_
+     Warriors
+     Hail, Red Cloud!
+     Mightier than all fighting men!
+     The slayer of War!
+     We are not sad.
+     Our eyes were blinded.
+     We did not know one acorn planted
+     Was mightier than an hundred fighting men.
+     We are not sad.
+     Our red work was when
+     The world was young and wild.
+     The world has grown wise.
+     No man slays his brother.
+     Our work is done.
+     In the light of the new day are we glad.
+
+     _(A band of Pioneers and Sea Explorers
+     appears.)_
+
+     Pioneers and Explorers
+     Hail, Red Cloud!
+     The first planter!
+     The Acorn-Planter!
+     We sang that War would die,
+     The anarch of our wild and wayward past.
+     We sang our brothers would come after,
+     Turning desert into garden,
+     Sowing friendship, and not hatred,
+     Planting seeds instead of dead men,
+     Growing men to manhood in the sun.
+
+     _(A band of Husbandmen appear, bearing
+     fruit and sheaves of grain and corn.)_
+
+     {Husbandmen}
+     Hail, Red Cloud!
+     The first planter!
+     The Acorn-Planter!
+     The harvests no more are red, but golden,
+     We are thy children.
+     We plant for increase,
+     Increase of wheat and corn,
+     Of fruit and flower,
+     Of sheep and kine,
+     Of love and lovers;
+     Rich are our harvests
+     And many are our lovers.
+
+     {Red Cloud}
+     Death is a stench in the nostrils,
+     Life is beauty and joy.
+     The planters are ever brothers.
+     Never are the warriors brothers;
+     Their ways are set apart,
+     Their hands raised each against each.
+     The planters' ways are the one way.
+     Ever they plant for life,
+     For life more abundant,
+     For beauty of head and hand,
+     For the voices of children playing,
+     And the laughter of maids in the twilight
+     And the lover's song in the gloom.
+
+     {All Voices}
+     Hail, Red Cloud!
+     The first planter!
+     The Acorn-Planter!
+     The maker of life!
+     Hail! All hail!
+     The New Day dawns,
+     The day of brotherhood,
+     The day of man!
+
+
+     THE END
+
+
+
+
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