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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/license + + +Title: Kwan-yin + +Author: Stella Benson + +Release Date: January 20, 2013 [EBook #41885] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KWAN-YIN *** + + + + +Produced by Dianna Adair, Paul Clark and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + +<h1 class="red">Kwan-yin</h1> + +<p class="center large red">BY STELLA BENSON</p> + +<p class="center xlarge red">❦</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a><br /><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + +<p>⁌ THE TEMPLE OF KWAN-YIN, GODDESS OF MERCY. <span class="red">A wide altar occupies +the whole of the back of the stage; a long fringe of strips of yellow +brocade hangs from the ceiling to within 3 feet of the floor at either +end of the altar. In the centre of the altar the seated figure of the +goddess is vaguely visible in the dimness; only the face is definitely +seen—a golden face; the expression is passionless and aloof. A long +table about 12 inches lower than the altar stands in front of it, right +across the stage. On the table, before the feet of Kwan-yin, is her +carved tablet with her name in golden characters on a red lacquer +ground. In front of the tablet is a large brass bowl full of joss-sticks +the smoke of which wavers in the air & occasionally obscures the face of +Kwan-yin. There are several plates of waxen looking fruit & cakes on the +table & two horn lanterns—these are the only light in the scene. On +either side of Kwan-yin, between the table and the altar, there is a +pillar with a gilded wooden dragon twisted round it, head downward. To +the left, forward, is a large barrel-shaped drum slung on a carved +blackwood stand.</span></p> + +<p class="red">Four priests & two acolytes are seen like shadows before this palely lit +background. One acolyte to the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> right of the table beats a little hoarse +bell. This he does during the course of the whole scene, in the +following rhythm:—7-8-20-7-8-20. He should reach the 105th beat at the +end of the second hymn to Kwan-yin. The other acolyte stands by the drum +and beats it softly at irregular intervals as indicated. The acolytes +are little boys in long blue coats. The four priests stand at the table +with their faces toward Kwan-yin; their robes are pale dull pink silk +with a length of deeper apricot pink draped about the shoulders.</p> + +<p class="p2 red">The priests kneel and kow-tow to Kwan-yin.</p> + +<p class="red">The acolytes sing:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The voice of pain is weak and thin<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And yet it never dies.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin—Kwan-yin<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Has tears in her eyes.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be comforted ... be comforted....<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be comforted, my dear....<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Never a heart too dead<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For Kwan-yin to hear.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">A pony with a ragged skin<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Falls beneath a load;<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin—Kwan-yin<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Runs down the road.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A comforter ... a comforter....<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A comforter shall come....<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No pain too mean for her;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No grief too dumb.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Man's deserts and man's sin<br /></span> +<span class="i0">She shall not discover.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin—Kwan-yin—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Is the world's lover.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ah, thief of pain ... thou thief of pain....<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thou thief of pain, come in.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Never a cry in vain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin—Kwan-yin....<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">First priest—tenor—chants:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Is she then a warrior against sin?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On what field does she plant her banner?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Bears she a sword?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">First and second priests—tenor and bass—chant:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The world is very full of battle;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The speared and plumed forests in their ranks besiege the mountains;<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +<span class="i0">The flooded fields like scimitars lie between the breasts of the mountains.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The mists ride on bugling winds down the mountains.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shall not Kwan-yin bear a sword?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">Third priest—tenor—chants:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin is no warrior.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin bears no sword.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Even against sin<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin has no battle.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">This is her banner—a new day, a forgetting hour.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her hands are empty of weapons and outstretched to the world.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her feet are set on lotus flowers,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The lotus flowers are set on a pale lake,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And the lake is filled with the tears of the world.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin is still, she is very still, she listens always,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin lives remembering tears.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">At this point the smoke of the joss-sticks veils the face of Kwan-yin. A +woman's voice sings:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Wherefore remember tears?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shall tears be dried by remembrance?<br /></span> +</div></div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p> +<p class="red">This voice is apparently not heard by the priests and acolytes.</p> + +<p class="red">First and third priests chant:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Ah, Kwan-yin, mother of love,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Remember<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Those in pain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Those who are held fast in pain of their own or another's seeking.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Those for whom the world is too difficult<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And too beautiful to bear,<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">All:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin, remember, remember.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">First and third priests:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Those who are blind, who shall never read the writing upon the fierce rivers.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who shall never see the slow flowing of the stars from mountain to mountain.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Those who are deaf, whom music and the fellowship of words have forsaken<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">All:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin, remember, remember.<br /></span> +</div></div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> +<p class="red">First and third priests:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Those whose love is buried and broken;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All those under the sun who lack the thing that they love<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And under the moon cry out because of their lack,<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">All:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin, remember.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">First priest:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Oh thou taker away of pain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thou taker away of tears....<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">The smoke quivers across Kwan-yin's face again, and the same woman's +voice sings:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Wherefore remember the desolate?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Is there a road of escape out of the unending wilderness?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Can Kwan-yin find a way where there is no way?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">Still the voice is unheard by the worshippers. First priest sings, and +while he sings the acolyte beats the drum softly at quick irregular +intervals.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin shall come, shall come,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Surely she shall come,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To bring content and a new diamond day to the desolate,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To bring the touch of hands & the song of birds<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To those who walk terribly alone.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To part the russet earth and the fingers of the leaves in the spring<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That they may give up their treasure.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To those who faint for lack of such treasure<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To listen to the long complaining of the old and the unwanted.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To bring lover to lover across the world,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thrusting the stars aside and cleaving the seas and the mountains.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To hold up the high paths beneath the feet of travellers.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To keep the persuading roar of waters from the ears of the broken-hearted.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To bring a smile to the narrow lips of death,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To make beautiful the eyes of death.<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">A woman's voice again sings, unheeded, from behind the veil of smoke.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Wherefore plead with death?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who shall soften the terrible heart of death?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">All, in urgent but slow unison:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kwan-yin.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">The golden face of Kwan-yin above the altar changes suddenly and +terribly, and becomes like a masque of fear. The lanterns flare +spasmodically. The voice can now be identified as Kwan-yin's, but still +the priests stand unhearing with their heads bowed, and still the +passionless bell rings.</p> + +<p class="red">Kwan-yin, in a screaming voice:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Ah, be still, be still....<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I am Kwan-yin.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I am Mercy.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Mercy is defeated.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Mercy who battled not, is defeated.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">She is a captive bound to the chariot of pain.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sorrow has set his foot upon her neck.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sin has mocked her.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Turn away thine eyes from Mercy,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +<span class="i0">From poor Mercy.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Woo her no more.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Cry upon her no more.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">There is an abrupt moment of silence as the light becomes dim again & +Kwan-yin's face is frozen still. Then the first priest sings.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">What then are Mercy's gifts? The rose-red slopes<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of hills ... the secret twisted hands of trees?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shall not the moon & the stars redeem lost hopes?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What fairer gifts shall Mercy bring than these?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">For, in the end, when our beseeching clamor<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Dies with our bells; when fear devours our words;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lo, she shall come & hold the night with glamor,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lo, she shall come & sow the dawn with birds.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Ah thou irrelevant saviour, ah thou bringer<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of treasure from the empty sky, ah thou<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who answerest death with song, shall such a singer<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be silent now? Shall thou be silent now?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="red">The 105th beat of the bell is now reached and there is a pause in the +ringing.</p> + +<p class="red">All:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">KWAN-YIN.<br /></span> +</div></div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> +<p class="red">The bell is rung slowly three times. Then there is absolute silence. +There is now a tenseness in the attitudes of all the worshippers, they +lean forward and look with suspense into Kwan-yin's quite impassive +golden face.</p> + +<p class="red">The lights go out suddenly.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p class="red"> +One hundred copies printed by<br /> +Edwin Grabhorn, San Francisco, in April, 1922.<br /> +Bound by Florence Grabhorn. +</p> + +<div class="transnote"> +<p>Transcriber's Note:</p> + +<p>Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as +possible.</p> + +<p>In the first paragraph, a duplicated "the" has been corrected in +"only the the face is definitely seen."</p> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Kwan-yin, by Stella Benson + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KWAN-YIN *** + +***** This file should be named 41885-h.htm or 41885-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/8/8/41885/ + +Produced by Dianna Adair, Paul Clark and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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/license + + +Title: Kwan-yin + +Author: Stella Benson + +Release Date: January 20, 2013 [EBook #41885] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KWAN-YIN *** + + + + +Produced by Dianna Adair, Paul Clark and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + + + Kwan-yin + + BY STELLA BENSON + + [Floral heart] + + +[Bullet] THE TEMPLE OF KWAN-YIN, GODDESS OF MERCY. A wide altar occupies +the whole of the back of the stage; a long fringe of strips of yellow +brocade hangs from the ceiling to within 3 feet of the floor at either +end of the altar. In the centre of the altar the seated figure of the +goddess is vaguely visible in the dimness; only the face is definitely +seen--a golden face; the expression is passionless and aloof. A long +table about 12 inches lower than the altar stands in front of it, right +across the stage. On the table, before the feet of Kwan-yin, is her +carved tablet with her name in golden characters on a red lacquer +ground. In front of the tablet is a large brass bowl full of joss-sticks +the smoke of which wavers in the air & occasionally obscures the face of +Kwan-yin. There are several plates of waxen looking fruit & cakes on the +table & two horn lanterns--these are the only light in the scene. On +either side of Kwan-yin, between the table and the altar, there is a +pillar with a gilded wooden dragon twisted round it, head downward. To +the left, forward, is a large barrel-shaped drum slung on a carved +blackwood stand. + +Four priests & two acolytes are seen like shadows before this palely lit +background. One acolyte to the right of the table beats a little hoarse +bell. This he does during the course of the whole scene, in the +following rhythm:--7-8-20-7-8-20. He should reach the 105th beat at the +end of the second hymn to Kwan-yin. The other acolyte stands by the drum +and beats it softly at irregular intervals as indicated. The acolytes +are little boys in long blue coats. The four priests stand at the table +with their faces toward Kwan-yin; their robes are pale dull pink silk +with a length of deeper apricot pink draped about the shoulders. + + +The priests kneel and kow-tow to Kwan-yin. + +The acolytes sing: + + The voice of pain is weak and thin + And yet it never dies. + Kwan-yin--Kwan-yin + Has tears in her eyes. + Be comforted ... be comforted.... + Be comforted, my dear.... + Never a heart too dead + For Kwan-yin to hear. + + A pony with a ragged skin + Falls beneath a load; + Kwan-yin--Kwan-yin + Runs down the road. + A comforter ... a comforter.... + A comforter shall come.... + No pain too mean for her; + No grief too dumb. + + Man's deserts and man's sin + She shall not discover. + Kwan-yin--Kwan-yin-- + Is the world's lover. + Ah, thief of pain ... thou thief of pain.... + Thou thief of pain, come in. + Never a cry in vain, + Kwan-yin--Kwan-yin.... + +First priest--tenor--chants: + + Is she then a warrior against sin? + On what field does she plant her banner? + Bears she a sword? + +First and second priests--tenor and bass--chant: + + The world is very full of battle; + The speared and plumed forests in their ranks besiege the mountains; + The flooded fields like scimitars lie between the breasts of the + mountains. + The mists ride on bugling winds down the mountains. + Shall not Kwan-yin bear a sword? + +Third priest--tenor--chants: + + Kwan-yin is no warrior. + Kwan-yin bears no sword. + Even against sin + Kwan-yin has no battle. + This is her banner--a new day, a forgetting hour. + Her hands are empty of weapons and outstretched to the world. + Her feet are set on lotus flowers, + The lotus flowers are set on a pale lake, + And the lake is filled with the tears of the world. + Kwan-yin is still, she is very still, she listens always, + Kwan-yin lives remembering tears. + +At this point the smoke of the joss-sticks veils the face of Kwan-yin. A +woman's voice sings: + + Wherefore remember tears? + Shall tears be dried by remembrance? + +This voice is apparently not heard by the priests and acolytes. + +First and third priests chant: + + Ah, Kwan-yin, mother of love, + Remember + Those in pain, + Those who are held fast in pain of their own or another's seeking. + Those for whom the world is too difficult + And too beautiful to bear, + +All: + + Kwan-yin, remember, remember. + +First and third priests: + + Those who are blind, who shall never read the writing upon the + fierce rivers. + Who shall never see the slow flowing of the stars from mountain + to mountain. + Those who are deaf, whom music and the fellowship of words have + forsaken + +All: + + Kwan-yin, remember, remember. + +First and third priests: + + Those whose love is buried and broken; + All those under the sun who lack the thing that they love + And under the moon cry out because of their lack, + +All: + + Kwan-yin, remember. + +First priest: + + Oh thou taker away of pain, + Thou taker away of tears.... + +The smoke quivers across Kwan-yin's face again, and the same woman's +voice sings: + + Wherefore remember the desolate? + Is there a road of escape out of the unending wilderness? + Can Kwan-yin find a way where there is no way? + +Still the voice is unheard by the worshippers. First priest sings, and +while he sings the acolyte beats the drum softly at quick irregular +intervals. + + Kwan-yin shall come, shall come, + Surely she shall come, + To bring content and a new diamond day to the desolate, + To bring the touch of hands & the song of birds + To those who walk terribly alone. + To part the russet earth and the fingers of the leaves in the spring + That they may give up their treasure. + To those who faint for lack of such treasure + To listen to the long complaining of the old and the unwanted. + To bring lover to lover across the world, + Thrusting the stars aside and cleaving the seas and the mountains. + To hold up the high paths beneath the feet of travellers. + To keep the persuading roar of waters from the ears of the + broken-hearted. + To bring a smile to the narrow lips of death, + To make beautiful the eyes of death. + +A woman's voice again sings, unheeded, from behind the veil of smoke. + + Wherefore plead with death? + Who shall soften the terrible heart of death? + +All, in urgent but slow unison: + + Kwan-yin. + Kwan-yin. + Kwan-yin. + Kwan-yin. + +The golden face of Kwan-yin above the altar changes suddenly and +terribly, and becomes like a masque of fear. The lanterns flare +spasmodically. The voice can now be identified as Kwan-yin's, but still +the priests stand unhearing with their heads bowed, and still the +passionless bell rings. + +Kwan-yin, in a screaming voice: + + Ah, be still, be still.... + I am Kwan-yin. + I am Mercy. + Mercy is defeated. + Mercy who battled not, is defeated. + She is a captive bound to the chariot of pain. + Sorrow has set his foot upon her neck. + Sin has mocked her. + Turn away thine eyes from Mercy, + From poor Mercy. + Woo her no more. + Cry upon her no more. + +There is an abrupt moment of silence as the light becomes dim again & +Kwan-yin's face is frozen still. Then the first priest sings. + + What then are Mercy's gifts? The rose-red slopes + Of hills ... the secret twisted hands of trees? + Shall not the moon & the stars redeem lost hopes? + What fairer gifts shall Mercy bring than these? + + For, in the end, when our beseeching clamor + Dies with our bells; when fear devours our words; + Lo, she shall come & hold the night with glamor, + Lo, she shall come & sow the dawn with birds. + + Ah thou irrelevant saviour, ah thou bringer + Of treasure from the empty sky, ah thou + Who answerest death with song, shall such a singer + Be silent now? Shall thou be silent now? + +The 105th beat of the bell is now reached and there is a pause in the +ringing. + +All: + + KWAN-YIN. + +The bell is rung slowly three times. Then there is absolute silence. +There is now a tenseness in the attitudes of all the worshippers, they +lean forward and look with suspense into Kwan-yin's quite impassive +golden face. + +The lights go out suddenly. + + * * * * * + + One hundred copies printed by + Edwin Grabhorn, San Francisco, in April, 1922. + Bound by Florence Grabhorn. + + + + + Transcriber's Note: + + Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as + possible. + + In the first paragraph, a duplicated "the" has been corrected in + "only the the face is definitely seen." + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Kwan-yin, by Stella Benson + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KWAN-YIN *** + +***** This file should be named 41885.txt or 41885.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/8/8/41885/ + +Produced by Dianna Adair, Paul Clark and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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