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 ere;
 * I could nor laugh nor weep from the depths of my heart.
 * I knew not for sure how you might be minded;
 * I knew but for sure what I should do and must do.

PEER
 * But your father?

SOLVEIG
 * In all of God's wide earth
 * I have none I can call either father or mother.
 * I have loosed me from all of them.

PEER
 * Solveig, you fair one-
 * and to come to me?

SOLVEIG
 * Ay, to you alone;
 * you must be all to me, friend and consoler.
 * [In tears.]
 * The worst was leaving my little sister;-
 * but parting from father was worse, still worse;
 * and worst to leave her at whose breast I was borne;-
 * oh no, God forgive me, the worst I must call
 * the sorrow of leaving them all, ay all!

PEER
 * And you know the doom that was passed in spring?
 * It forfeits my farm and my heritage.

SOLVEIG
 * Think you for heritage, goods, and gear,
 * I forsook the paths all my dear ones tread?