Conrad— Eh?
Fritz—When Canzler turned to ask him, he was gone.
Conrad—And have you seen him since?
Fritz— Where is your bread?
Conrad—I have some here. (He reaches up into the bag.)
Has no one seen him since?
Fritz—He was out on the mountains every day
Before, either by the abbey over there
Or climbing in the vines above the tarn,
But always in the shade of rock or tree.
When he crossed spaces where the sunlight fell
'Twas always in the shadow of a cloud.
No one has seen him since he disappeared.
Conrad— (Laying the bread upon the grass.)
You know the song that Wiglaf used to sing,
Of how Val-father wanders over the earth
In human form—
Fritz— That is what Rudolph says;
Val-father turns his dark side to the earth.
Conrad—And leaves swords sticking in the rock and trees.
Fritz—Rudolph insists that Oswald will return.
He says that Selma learned it from the trees.
She listens in the forest all day long
And when the wind is loud and the boughs sway—