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 ===SCENE FOURTH=== [Among the Ronde mountains. Sunset. Shining snowpeaks all around.] [PEER GYNT enters, dizzy and bewildered.] PEER
 * Tower over tower arises!
 * Hei, what a glittering gate!
 * Stand! Will you stand! It's drifting
 * further and further away!
 * High on the vane the cock stands
 * lifting his wings for flight;-
 * blue spread the rifts and bluer,
 * locked is the fell and barred.-
 * What are those trunks and tree-roots,
 * that grow from the ridge's clefts?
 * They are warriors heron-footed!
 * Now they, too, are fading away.
 * A shimmering like rainbow-streamers
 * goes shooting through eyes and brain.
 * What is it, that far-off chiming?
 * What's weighing my eyebrows down?
 * Hu, how my forehead's throbbing-
 * a tightening red-hot ring-!
 * I cannot think who the devil
 * has bound it around my head!
 * [Sinks down.]
 * Flight o'er the Edge of Gendin-
 * stuff and accursed lies!
 * Up o'er the steepest hill-wall
 * with the bride,-and a whole day drunk;
 * hunted by hawks and falcons,
 * threatened by trolls and such,
 * spor