Page:The collected works of Henrik Ibsen (Volume 4).djvu/225

 alf-caste race and Malabaris,
 * all alike must suffer by it.-
 * I have tried to fight the battle
 * of our real, primal wood-speech,-
 * tried to bring to life its carcass,-
 * proved the people's right of shrieking,-
 * shrieked myself, and shown the need of
 * shrieks in poems for the people.-
 * Scantly, though, my work is valued.-
 * Now I think you grasp my sorrow.
 * Thanks for lending me a hearing;-
 * have you counsel, let me hear it!

PEER [softly].
 * It is written: Best be howling
 * with the wolves that are about you.
 * [Aloud.]
 * Friend, if I remember rightly,
 * there are bushes in Morocco,
 * where orang-outangs in plenty
 * live with neither bard nor spokesman;-
 * their speech sounded Malabarish;-
 * it was classical and pleasing.
 * Why don't you, like other worthies,
 * emigrate to serve your country?

HUHU
 * Thanks for lending me a hearing;-
 * I will do as you advise me.
 * [With a large gesture.]
 * East! thou hast disowned thy singer!
 * West! thou hast orang-outangs still!
 * [Goes.]

BEGRIFFENFELDT
 * Well, was he himself? I should rather think so.
 * He's filled with his own affairs, simply