Who stands in a flowing robe between the lamp and the dark?
Turn towards us and hold your face before us!
Ahhh!
Our unworthiness is bodily present among us! There is not one of us who can escape it! Beautiful and blind,
Do not reopen your eyes! Let us feast on your loveliness
Now that you do not look at us.
The Princess (sighing): Nnn!
The First Watcher (half-aloud): What does that mean?
The Second Watcher: Do you not understand?
(Pantomime. The princess seems to be awakening from sleep, with slow gestures and eyes always closed.