SHITE
The sound of the loom.

TSURE
It was a sweet sound like katydids and crickets,
A thin sound like the Autumn.

SHITE
It was what you would hear any night.

TSURE
Kiri.

SHITE
Hatari.

TSURE
Cho.

SHITE
Cho.

CHORUS (mimicking the sound of crickets)
Kiri, hatari, cho, cho,
Kiri, hatari, cho, cho.
The cricket sews on at his old rags,
With all the new grass in the field; sho,
Churr, isho, like the whir of a loom: churr.

CHORUS (antistrophe)