Will break these bonds! I will be free! I will!

O royal mount of love, snow-high, sun-kissed,

Kissed by the sun which once did shine on me!

If I am of the fields—

[Her hand touches the mark upon her throat. She

laughs.

O hated flower,

Which grew beneath no hedgerow on this earth!

Teach me, thou poison blossom, pride of heart!

Where is that Duchess Jeanne whom I am like?