(_She looks._) The earth is sorrowful. (_She
sighs._) Cares. Cares. All over the wide surface we can see are
troubles; troubles far off and grey, that harm not Aether Mountain.
QUEEN: It looks a long way off and long ago.
ZOON (_wonderingly_): Only to-day we came to Aether Mountain.
QUEEN: Only to-day?
ZOON: We crossed a gulf of time.
QUEEN: It lies below us, all drowsy with years.
ZOON: Lady, here is your home, this peak that has entered heaven. Let us
never leave your home.
QUEEN: I knew not until to-day of Aether Mountain. None had told me.
ZOON: Knew you never, lady, of love?
QUEEN: None had told me.
ZOON: This is your home; not Earth; no golden palace. Reign here alone,
not knowing the cares of men, without yesterday or to-morrow, untroubled
by history or council.
QUEEN: Yes, yes, we will return no more.
ZOON: See, lady, see the Earth. Is it not as a dream just faded?
QUEEN: It is dim indeed, grey and dream-like.
ZOON: It is the Earth we knew.
QUEEN: It is all dream-like.
ZOON: It is gone; we can dimly see it.
QUEEN: Was it a dream?
ZOON: Perhaps. It is gone now and does not matter.
QUEEN: Poor Earth. I hope it was real.
ZOON (_seizing her hand_): Oh, Zoomzoomarma, say not you hope that Earth
was real.
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