h bestial meaning....

[_Screams_]

Ah! the face!
The whole great grinning house--his face! his face!
His face!

REDFEATHER [_in a voice of thunder, pointing away from the house_].

Look there--look there!

OLIVE.

What is it? What?

REDFEATHER.

I think it was a bird.

OLIVE.

What thought you, truly?

REDFEATHER.

I think a mighty thought is drawing near.

[_Enter THE WILD KNIGHT._]

THE WILD KNIGHT.

That house....

[_Points._]

OLIVE.

Ah Christ! [_Shudders._] I had forgotten it.

THE WILD KNIGHT [_still pointing_].

That house! the house at last, the house of God,
Wherein God makes an evening feast for me.
The house at last: I know the twisted path
Under the twisted pear-tree: this I saw
In the first dream I had ere I was born.
It is the house of God. He welcomes me.

[_Strides forward._]

REDFEATHER.

_That_ house. God's blood!

OLIVE [_hysterically_].

Is not this hell's own wit?

THE WILD KNIGHT.

God grows impatient, and His wine is poured,
His bread is broken.

[_Rushes forward._]

REDFEATHER [_leaps between_].

Stand away, great fool,
There is a devil there!

THE WILD KNIGHT [_draws his sword, and waves it as he rushes_].

God's house!--God's house!

REDFEATHER [_plucks out his own sword_].

Better my hand than his.

[_The blades clash._]

God alone knows
What That within might do to you, poor fool,
I can but kill you.

[_They fight. OLIVE tries to part them._]

REDFEATHER.

Olive, stand away!

OLIVE.

I will not stand away!

[_Steps between the swords._]

Stranger, a word,
Yes--you are right--God is within that house.

REDFEATHER.

Olive!

OLIVE.

But He is all too beautiful
For us who only know of stars and flowers.
The thing within is all too pure and fair,

[_Shudders._]

Too awful in its ancient innocence,
For men to look upon it and not die;
Ourselves would fade into those still white fires
Of peace and mercy.

[_Struggles with her voice._]

There ... enough ... the law--
No flesh shall look upon the Lord and live.

REDFEATHER [_sticking his sword in the ground_].

You are the bravest lady in the world.

THE WILD KNIGHT [_dazed_].

May I not go within?

REDFEATHER.

Keep you the law--
No flesh shall look upon the Lord and live.

THE WILD KNIGHT [_sadly_].

Then I will go and lay me in the flowers,
For He may haply, as in ancient time,
Walk in the garden in the cool of