What did you do then?
First of all, I searched and tried my own heart—
And then?
The I did the impossible—I, no less than he.
The impossible?
I had never before been able to climb up to a great, free height. But that day I did it.
[Leaping up.] Yes, yes, you did!
And when I stood there, high over everything, and was hanging the wreath over the vane, I said to him: Hear me now, thou Mighty One! From this day forward I will be a free builder—I too, in my sphere—just as thou in thine. I will never more build churches for thee—only homes for human beings.
[With great sparkling eyes.] That was the song that I heard through the air!
But afterwards his turn came.