let me stand upright! Your hand, good Scarlet!
We have lived our lives and God be thanked we go
Together thro' this darkness. We shall wake,
Please God, together. It is growing darker!
I cannot see your faces. Give me my bow
Quickly into my hands, for my strength fails
And I must shoot one last shaft on the trail
Of yonder setting sun, never to reach it!
But where this last, last bolt of all my strength,
My hope, my love, shall fall, there bury us both,
Together, and tread the green turf over us!
The bow!

[_SCARLET hands him his bow. He stands against the faint glow
of the window, draws the bow to full length, shoots and
falls back into the arms of LITTLE JOHN._]

LITTLE JOHN

[_Laying him down._]

Weep, England, for thine outlawed lover,
Dear Robin Hood, the poor man's friend, is dead.

[_The scene becomes quite dark. Then out of the darkness, and as
if at a distance, the voice of SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF is
heard singing the fairy song of the first scene. The
fairy glade in Sherwood begins to be visible in the gloom
by the soft light of the ivory gates which are swinging
open once more among the ferns. As the scene grows
clearer the song of SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF grows more and
more triumphant and is gradually caught up by the
chorus of the fairy host within the woods._]

[_Song of SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF._]

I

The Forest has conquered! The Forest has conquered!
The Forest has conquered!
The world begins again!
And O, the red of the roses,
And the rush of the healing rain!

II

The Forest has conquered! The Forest has conquered!
The Forest has conquered!
The Princess wakes from sleep;
For the soft green keys of the wood-land
Have opened her donjon-keep!

III

The Forest has conquered! The Forest has conquered!
The Forest has conquered!
Their grey walls hemmed us round;
But, under my greenwood oceans,
Their castles are trampled and drowned.

IV

The Forest has conquered! The Forest has conquered!
The Forest has conquered!
My green sprays climbed on high,
And the ivy laid hold on their turrets
And haled them down from the sky!

V

The Forest has c