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[Approaching.] I am going to put life in the place of all the rest.

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[Mockingly.] Aha! so you too are going to do that, little Maia?

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Yes. And I've made a verse about it, and this is how it goes:

[Sings triumphantly]

I am free! I am free! I am free! No more life in the prison for me! I am free as a bird! I am free! For I believe I have awakened now—at last.

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It almost seems so.

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[Drawing a deep breath.] Oh—how divinely light one feels on waking!

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Good-night, Frau Maia—and good luck to

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[Calls out, interposing.] Hush, hush!—for the devil's sake let's have none of your wizard wishes. Don't you see that we are going out to shoot