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''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.''

, fair-haired and comely, sits spinning outside in the sunshine.

[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, spins, 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. amid the sands.''

 enters on foot, and looks around him for a while.

Here I might fittingly start on my wanderings.—