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 see yourself," he says, "mirrored in my own mind." She begs him, then, to show her how to see with his eyes: "Is there nothing at all like darkness to you? This darkness—'which is to me real as death'—is it nothing to you? I want to see you where I see trees and animals, birds and stones, and the earth.…" The King says she may look for him from the palace turret among the crowd this very night, during the festival of the full moon of the spring. The song of the revellers and festive singing boys in the next scene fills Sudarshana with apprehension; she dreams of love unfulfillable and unrequited:

And she says as the song ends, "A fancy comes to me that desire can never attain its object—it need never attain it." She learns the truth that love is stern and based on the unalterable law, from Surangama, who has been the King's servant, and who is