Here will I await thee till thou comest again;
And if thou wait up yonder, then there we’ll meet, my friend!
SCENE ELEVENTH.
In Egypt. Daybreak. Memnon’s Statue amid the sands.
Peer Gynt enters on foot, and looks around him for a while.
Peer Gynt.
Here I might fittingly start on my wanderings.—
So now, for a change, I’ve become an Egyptian;
But Egyptian on the basis of the Gyntish I.
To Assyria next I will bend my steps.