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 eapt sky-high, and down we plunged
 * both of us into the depths!

[ASE totters, and catches at the trunk of a tree. PEER GYNT continues:]
 * Mountain walls behind us, black,
 * and below a void unfathomed!
 * First we clove through banks of mist,
 * then we clove a flock of sea-gulls,
 * so that they, in mid-air startled,
 * flew in all directions, screaming.
 * Downward rushed we, ever downward.
 * But beneath us something shimmered,
 * whitish, like a reindeer's belly.-
 * Mother, 'twas our own reflection
 * in the glass-smooth mountain tarn,
 * shooting up towards the surface
 * with the same wild rush of speed
 * wherewith we were shooting downwards.

ASE [gasping for breath].
 * Peer! God help me-! Quickly, tell-!

PEER
 * Buck from over, buck from under,
 * in a moment clashed together,
 * scattering foam-flecks all around.
 * There we lay then, floating, plashing,-
 * But at last we made our way
 * somehow to the northern shore;
 * buck, he swam, I clung behind him:-
 * I ran homewards-

ASE
 * But the buck, de