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alf-caste race and Malabaris,
- all alike must suffer by it.-
- I have tried to fight the battle
- of our real, primal wood-speech,-
- tried to bring to life its carcass,-
- proved the people's right of shrieking,-
- shrieked myself, and shown the need of
- shrieks in poems for the people.-
- Scantly, though, my work is valued.-
- Now I think you grasp my sorrow.
- Thanks for lending me a hearing;-
- have you counsel, let me hear it!
PEER [softly].
- It is written: Best be howling
- with the wolves that are about you.
- [Aloud.]
- Friend, if I remember rightly,
- there are bushes in Morocco,
- where orang-outangs in plenty
- live with neither bard nor spokesman;-
- their speech sounded Malabarish;-
- it was classical and pleasing.
- Why don't you, like other worthies,
- emigrate to serve your country?
HUHU
- Thanks for lending me a hearing;-
- I will do as you advise me.
- [With a large gesture.]
- East! thou hast disowned thy singer!
- West! thou hast orang-outangs still!
- [Goes.]
BEGRIFFENFELDT
- Well, was he himself? I should rather think so.
- He's filled with his own affairs, simply
