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droid.
    [
To Luke:
] We must make haste or face them yet again,
    So hence let us away unto my den.
    [Exeunt
.

SCENE 2.
    Inside the Kenobi homestead.
    Enter
O BI -W AN K ENOBI , L UKE S KYWALKER , C-3PO,
and
R2-D2.
    LUKE Nay, thou art sure misled, O wise one, for
    My father hath not fought in any wars.
    Full many evenings as I lay abed
    Such tales I heard of him I never knew:
    A navigator on a freighter ship
    Which carried fragrant spices hence to yon
    My father was. He kneweth naught of wars.
    OBI-WAN So hath thine uncle told thee. Marry, he
    Did not agree with aught thy father told
    Of his philosophy and brave ideals.
    Thine uncle, tether’d to the land, did not
    Believe thy father should become involv’d
    In matters of the stars and Empires, nay.
    [
Aside:
] What shall I of the father tell the child?
    If gentle Luke knew all that’s known to me
    I’ll warrant he’d not understand the rhyme
    And reason for my words. And yet, what is’t
    To lie? To tell the truth, all else be damn’d?
    Or else to tell, perhaps, a greater truth?
    Is it the truth to tell a boy each fact
    And thus deface his father’s memory?
    Or have I spoken better truth to Luke
    When I about his father speak with pride?
    Aye, ev’ry child deserves a champion.
    LUKE Hast thou done battle in the Clone Wars?
    OBI-WAN —Aye.
    And once was I a Jedi Knight, the same
    As thy dear father.
    LUKE —O, how tears well up
    Within me for the loss of that dear man
    Whom never I did know, nor do, nor will.
    OBI-WAN I tell thee truly, ’mongst the pilots he
    Was e’er the greatest in the galaxy.
    He also was a cunning warrior,
    And to the last was he a dear, dear friend.
    [
Aside:
] And now to play upon his natur’l sense
    Of self-importance, so to draw him near
    To thoughts of Jedi training for himself.
    [
To Luke:
] I hear thou art a pilot skill’d as well.
    This calleth to my mind a gift I have
    For thee. Thy father hath desir’d that thou
    Shouldst have this weapon when thou wert of age.
    Thine uncle, though, would none of it, so fear’d
    He that thou might adjoin with Obi-Wan
    Upon a fool’s crusade or devil’s task
    Just as thy father hath when he was young.
    C-3PO Dear Sir, if thou dost need me not, I shall
    Shut down upon the present moment, here.
    OBI-WAN [
aside:
] Why speak’st he here when ’tis my time to speak?
    These droids of protocol are e’er uncouth:
    Of etiquette they know but little, troth!
    LUKE Pray tell, what is’t?
    OBI-WAN —Thy father’s lightsaber.
    It is the weapon of a Jedi Knight:
    If thou in thine own hand could hold a sun,
    Then thou wouldst know the power of this tool.
    Not merely random, neither awkward like
    A blaster. Nay, the lightsaber maintains
    A noble elegance, a Jedi’s pride.
    ’Tis something for a civiliz’d new age.
    CHORUS Now holdeth Luke the weapon in his hand,
    And with a switch the flame explodes in blue.
    The noble light Luke’s rev’rence doth command:
    That instant was a Jedi born anew.
    OBI-WAN [
aside:
] Now doth the Force begin to work in him.
    [
To Luke:
] For many generations Jedi were
    The guarantors of justice, peace, and good
    Within the Old Republic. Ere the dark
    Times came and ere the Empire ’gan to reign.
    LUKE How hath my father died?
    OBI-WAN [
aside:
]                 —O question apt!
    The story whole I’ll not reveal to him,
    Yet may he one day understand my drift:
    That from a certain point of view it may
    Be said my answer is the honest truth.
    [
To Luke:
] A Jedi nam’d Darth Vader—aye, a lad
    Whom I had taught until he evil turn’d—
    Did help the Empire hunt and then destroy
    The Jedi. [
Aside:
] Now, the hardest words of all
    I’ll utter here unto this innocent,
    With hope that one day he shall comprehend.
    [
To Luke:
] He hath thy Father murder’d and betray’d,
    And now are Jedi nearly all extinct.
    Young Vader was seduc’d and taken by
    The dark side of the Force.
    LUKE —The Force?
    OBI-WAN —The Force.
    The Force doth give a Jedi all his