Strange flowers are standing
among them, like princes I have not known.
OOZIZI: Oh, lady, speak not of the bewildering fields. They are all
enchanted with Summer, and they have maddened the Princes. It is
dangerous to look at them, lady.
[_The_ QUEEN _gazes on over the fields._
And yet you look.
QUEEN: I would fain go far over the strange soft fields; far and far to
the high heathery lands----
OOZIZI: Lady, all is quiet; there is no danger; you must not leave the
palace.
QUEEN: Yes, all is quiet.
[_The_ QUEEN _returns._
OOZIZI: It was a passing madness seized the Princes.
QUEEN: Oozizi, when I hear the sound of all their feet it is dreadful,
and I must fly. And when I see the wonderful fields in the sunlight
sloping away to lands I have never known, then I long to fly away and
away for ever, passing from field to field and land to land.
OOZIZI: Lady, no, no!
QUEEN: Oozizi.
OOZIZI: Yes, great lady.
QUEEN: There is a mountain there that towers above the earth. It goes up
into a calm of which our world knows nothing. Heaven, like a cloak, is
draped about its shoulders. Why have none told me of this mountain,
Oozizi?
OOZIZI (_awed_): Aether Mountain.
QUEEN: Why has none told me?
OOZIZI: When your glorious mother, lady, loved for a day .
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