| Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing. |
| The drama opens with Boni's lamentation about the struggles of life in Bonikope. |
| But not lamentations in the sense of tombs of the period, rather lamentation on the loss of meaning in art, a reflection on art itself. |
| Its walls, while echoing voices of lamentation, reverberate also the shouts of revenge. |
| The whole world will eventually be in disorder, and the sound of lamentation will be heard everywhere. |
| In other words, it is much better to have defiant, life-affirming laughter than tears and lamentation. |
