It is gone now. See; it is so far away. Sigh not for Earth, oh
lady, sigh not for Earth.
QUEEN: Why not, King of Aether Mountain?
ZOON: Because when you sigh for tiny things I tremble for your love. See
how faint and small it is and how far away.
QUEEN: I do not sigh for Earth, King of the Mountain. I only wish it
well.
ZOON: Oh, wish it not well, lady.
QUEEN: Let us wish the poor Earth well.
ZOON: No, lady, no. Be with me always wholly, living not partly in
dreams. There is no Earth. It is but a dream that left us. See, see
(_pointing down_) it is a dim dream.
QUEEN (_looking down_): The people move there still. See, there is
Prince Ximenung. Something down there seems almost unlike dreams.
ZOON: No, lady, it cannot be.
QUEEN: How know you, Lord of the Mountain?
ZOON: It was too unreal for life. Love was not there. Surely it was a
dream.
QUEEN: Yes, I knew not love in the golden palace of Zoorm.
ZOON: Then indeed it was unreal, Golden Lady. Forget the dream of
Earth.
QUEEN: If love be real ...
ZOON: Can you doubt it?
QUEEN: No. It was a dream. Just now I dreamt it. Are dreams bad, my
Prince?
ZOON: No. They are just dreams.
QUEEN: We will think of dreams no more.
ZOON: This is where love is, and here only. We should not dream too much
or think of dreams, because the place is holy.
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