[A light shines in his face; he cries:]

My mother; my wife; oh, thou innocent woman!—

In thy love—oh, there hide me, hide me!

[Clings to her end hides his face in her lap. A long silence. The sun rises.

Solveig.

[Sings softly.]

Sleep thou, dearest boy of mine!

I will cradle thee, I will watch thee——

The boy has been sitting on his mother’s lap.

They two have been playing all the life-day long.