The Queen: You had known no love before, First of a Hundred?
Prince of Zoon: There is no love on earth, O Queen of all.
Queen: Only here.
Zoon: Pure love is only here on this peak lonely in heaven.
Queen: Would you love me elsewhere if we went from here?
Zoon: But we will never go from here.
Queen: No, we will never leave it.
Zoon: Lady, look down. (She looks.) The earth is sorrowful. (She sighs.) Cares. Cares. All over the wide surface we can see are troubles; troubles far off and grey, that harm not Aether Mountain.
Queen: It looks a long way off and long ago.
Zoon (wonderingly): Only to-day we came to Aether Mountain.