When the Dew Falleth
SIMAH Old age is not youth.
ASHER And youth is not old. (He kisses her.)
SIMAH Catch me. (She runs off—he after her.)
(Ezra, Nachomah and Faigen return.)
EZRA You know, at times one doesn’t seem so very old. One feels that he could really begin life all over again.
NACHOMAH We’ve lived our lives well. Nothing to regret. Were I only as sure of a place in the next world.
FAIGEN If I could only get off the wheel-chair, I could still accomplish worlds! But as it is—I some- times think I am done with it all.
NACHOMAH As long as one lives, one lives.
EZRA Of course, as long as one lives, one is sti// a man!
(The old ones pass on. Asher and Simah re- turn stealthily and hide behind a tree.)
SIMAH I’m afraid my little old man will cry when I tell him.
ASHER
What have they to do with us?
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