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SCENE TENTH=== [A summer day. Far up in the North. A hut in the forest. The door, with a large wooden bar, stands open. Reindeer-horns over it. A flock of goats by the wall of the hut.] [A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN, fair-haired and comely, sits spinning outside in the sunshine.] THE WOMAN [glances down the path, and sings].
- Maybe both the winter and spring will pass by,
- and the next summer too, and the whole of the year;-
- but thou wilt come one day, that know I full well;
- and I will await thee, as I promised of old.
- [Calls the goats, and sings again.]
- God strengthen thee, whereso thou goest in the world!
- God gladden thee, if at his footstool thou stand!
- Here will I await thee till thou comest again;
- and if thou wait up yonder, then there we'll meet, my friend!
SCENE ELEVENTH
[In Egypt. Daybreak. MEMNON'S STATUE amid the sands.] [PEER GYNT enters on foot, and looks around him for a while.] PEER GYNT
- Here I might fittingly start on my wanderings.-
