PRINCE. This is the promised bliss!
SWANWHITE. Eternal bliss, that has no flaw and knows no end!
PRINCE. No one can part us.
SWANWHITE. No one!
PRINCE. Are you my bride?
SWANWHITE. My bridegroom, you?
PRINCE. In dreamland—but not here!
SWANWHITE. Where are we?
PRINCE. Here below!
SWANWHITE. Here, where the sky is clouded, where the ocean roars, and where each night the earth sheds tears upon the grass while waiting for the dawn; where flies are killed by swallows, doves by hawks; where leaves must fall and turn to dust; where eyes must lose their light and hands their strength! Yes, here below!