The House of Rimmon: A Drama in Four Acts
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Henry Van Dyke (1928–2011) was born in Allegan, Michigan, and grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where his parents were professors at Alabama State College. He served in the Army in occupied Germany, playing flute in the 427th Marching Band. There he abandoned his early ambition to become a concert pianist and began to write. In 1958, after attending the University of Michigan on the G.I. Bill and living in Ann Arbor, he moved to New York, where he spent the rest of his life. Henry taught creative writing part-time at Kent State University from 1969 until his retirement in 1993, and was the author of four novels, including Blood of Strawberries, a sequel to Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes.
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The House of Rimmon - Henry van Dyke
Henry Van Dyke
The House of Rimmon
A Drama in Four Acts
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
THE HOUSE OF RIMMON
A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS
HENRY VAN DYKE
THE HOUSE OF RIMMON
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
SCENE I
SCENE II.
ACT II
ACT III
SCENE I
SCENE II. [*]
ACT IV
SCENE I
SCENE II
"Behold the sacrifice! Bow down, bow down!"[Frontispiece: Behold the sacrifice! Bow down, bow down!
]
THE HOUSE OF RIMMON
Table of Contents
A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS
Table of Contents
BY
HENRY VAN DYKE
Table of Contents
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1908
HENRY VAN DYKE
All rights reserved
Published in October
THE HOUSE OF RIMMON
Table of Contents
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Table of Contents
ACT I
Table of Contents
SCENE I
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Night, in the garden of NAAMAN at Damascus. At the left, on a slightly raised terrace, the palace, with softly gleaming lights and music coming from the open latticed windows. The garden is full of oleanders, roses, pomegranates, abundance of crimson flowers; the air is heavy with their fragrance: a fountain at the right is plashing gently: behind it is an arbour covered with vines. Near the centre of the garden stands a small, hideous image of the god Rimmon. Back of the arbour rises the lofty square tower of the House of Rimmon, which casts a shadow from the moon across the garden. The background is a wide, hilly landscape, with a high road passing over the mountains toward the snow-clad summits of Mount Hermon in the distance. Enter by the palace door, the lady TSARPI, robed in red and gold, and followed by her maids, KHAMMA and NUBTA. She remains on the terrace: they go down into the garden, looking about, and returning to her.
KHAMMA:
There's no one here; the garden is asleep.
NUBTA:
The flowers are nodding, all the birds abed,
And nothing wakes except the watchful stars!
KHAMMA:
The stars are sentinels discreet and mute:
How many things they know and never tell!
TSARPI: [Impatiently.]
Unlike the stars, how many things you tell
And do not know! When comes your master home?
NUBTA:
Lady, his armour-bearer brought us word
An hour ago, the master will be here
At moonset, not before.
TSARPI:
He haunts the camp
And leaves me much alone; yet I can pass
The time of absence not unhappily,
If I but know the time of his return.
An hour of moonlight yet! Khamma, my mirror!
These curls are ill arranged, this veil too low,--
So,--that is better, careless maids! Withdraw,--
But warn me if your master should appear.
KHAMMA:
Mistress, have no concern; for when we hear
The clatter of his horse along the street,
We'll run this way and lead your dancers down
With song and laughter,--you shall know in time.
[Exeunt KHAMMA and NUBTA, laughing. TSARPI descends the steps.]
TSARPI:
My guest is late; but he will surely come!
Hunger and thirst will bring him to my feet.
The man who burns to drain the cup of love,--
The priest whose greed of glory never fails,--
Both, both have need of me, and he will come.
And I,--what do I need? Why everything
That helps my beauty to a higher throne;
All that a priest can promise, all a man
Can give, and all a god bestow, I need:
This may a woman win, and this will I.
[Enter REZON quietly from the shadow of the trees. He stands behind