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Scene IV.]
OLLANTA.
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Cunahuanqui ñoccaracctacc
Rimarisacc chaymi sutin
Anchatan checnipacuni
Cay canchata cay huasita
Caypi caspa cay ccasita
Ppunchau tuta ñacacuni.
Ppunchau (ppunchau)
Cay payacunacc uyanta
Ancha aputa ccahuascani
Payllatatacc ricuscani
Chay ccuchu tiascaymanta
Manan cusi caypi canchu
Hueqquen uyancupi caicca
Munaiñimpi canman chaicca
Manan pipas tianmanchu
Ccahuani puriccunata
Asicuspan ccuchicuncu
Maquincupi apacuncu.
Llipipas samincunata
Ñoccallachu huisccacusac
Mana Mamay casccan raycu?
Ccapac ttalla canay raycu
Cunanmanta qquesacusacc
Huc tutan mana puñuspa
(Caina tutan muspha muspha)
Muyanchisman yaycurcani
Hinaspan uyarircani
(Hinapin)
Chica chimpi ricucuspa

You say to me.
Now I will speak
The very truth.
This court, this house,
The useless life,
Days and nights I hate.

The faces of the old women
Above all I detest.
That is all I can see
From the corner where I sit.
In this place there is no joy,
Only tears to weep.
Your wish would be
That none should live here.
They all walk, as I see,
Between laughing and crying,
Their fate in their hands,
Full of anxiety.
I am shut up here,
Because I have no mother.
Having no good nurse to tend me,
I have been to seek for one.
Last night I could not sleep,

I wandered to the garden,
And there I heard,

In the moment I was there,