within and without, [5] beyond and beneath the stars, and the moon
unclouded by her lord, and we who are born of the sun. This alone
intervenes, here where the moon is unshadowed, here in Nippon, the sun's
field.

[Footnote 5: 'Within and without,' gei, gu, two parts of the temple]

TENNIN
The plumage of heaven drops neither feather nor flame to its own
diminution.

CHORUS
Nor is this rock of earth over-much worn by the brushing of that feather-
mantle, the feathery skirt of the stars: rarely, how rarely. There is a
magic song from the east, the voices of many and many: and flute and
shae, filling the space beyond the cloud's edge, seven-stringed; dance
filling and filling. The red sun blots on the sky the line of the colour-
drenched mountains. The flowers rain in a gust; it is no racking storm
that comes over this green moor, which is afloat, as it would seem, in
these waves. Wonderful is the sleeve of the white cloud, whirling
such snow here.

TENNIN
Plain of life, field of the sun, true foundation, great power!

CHORUS
Hence and for ever this dancing shall be called, 'a revel in the east.'
Many are the robes thou hast, now of the sky's colour itself, and now a
green garment.