Queen: I do not sigh for Earth, King of the Mountain. I only wish it well.

Zoon: Oh, wish it not well, lady.

Queen: Let us wish the poor Earth well.

Zoon: No, lady, no. Be with me always wholly, living not partly in dreams. There is no Earth. It is but a dream that left us. See, see (pointing down) it is a dim dream.

Queen (looking down): The people move there still. See, there is Prince Ximenung. Something down there seems almost unlike dreams.

Zoon: No, lady, it cannot be.

Queen: How know you, Lord of the Mountain?

Zoon: It was too unreal for life. Love was not there. Surely it was a dream.

Queen: Yes, I knew not love in the golden palace of Zoorm.

Zoon: Then indeed it was unreal, Golden Lady. Forget the dream of Earth.