Here I’ve the immeasurable fjord, the flowers,

Here I have warbling birds and choral bowers;

And lady Fortune’s self,—for here is she!

Falk.

Ah, lady Fortune by our Northern water

Is rara avis,—hold her if you’ve caught her!

[With a glance towards the house.

Hist—Svanhild—

Lind.

Well; I go,—disclose to none