TYLTYL Certainly the bird will be blue, since everything here is blue....(Looking all around him.) Heaven, how beautiful it all is!...
LIGHT Look at the children running up....
TYLTYL Are they angry?...
LIGHT Not at all....You can see, they are smiling, but they are surprised....
THE BLUE CHILDREN (running up in ever-increasing numbers) Live children!...Come and look at the little live children!...
TYLTYL Why do they call us the little live children?
LIGHT Because they themselves are not alive yet....
TYLTYL What are they doing, then?...
LIGHT They are awaiting the hour of their birth....
TYLTYL The hour of their birth?...