QUEEN: Let us think of endless joy upon the edge of heaven. ZOON: Yes, Queen; for ever in reality while all else dream away. QUEEN: It is the years that make them drowsy. They dream to dream the years away. Time cannot reach so high as here, the years are far below us. ZOON: Far below us, making a dream and troubling it. QUEEN: They do not know in the dream that only love is real. ZOON: If time could reach us here we should pass, too. Nothing is real where time is. QUEEN: How shall we spend the calm that time does not vex, together here for ever? ZOON: Holding your hand. (_She gives it._) And kissing it often in the calm of eternity. Sometimes watching, a moment, the dream go by; then kissing your hand again all in eternity. QUEEN: And never wearying? ZOON: Not while eternity lingers here in heaven. QUEEN: Thus we will live until the dream goes by and Earth has faded under Aether Mountain. ZOON: And then we shall watch the calm of Eternity. QUEEN: And you will still kiss my hand at times. ZOON: Yes, while eternity wiles Heaven away. QUEEN: The silence is like music on Aether Mountain. ZOON: It is because all is real. In the dream nothing was real. Music had to be made and then soon passed trembling away. Here all things always are as the desire of Earth, Earth's desire that groped among fantasies finding them false. QUEEN: Let us forget the dream. ZOON (_kissing her hand_): I have forgotten for ever. QUEEN: Ah! ZOON: What trouble has drifted up to you from Earth? QUEEN: An old saying. ZOON: It was said in the dream. QUEEN: It was true! [_She snatches her hand away._ Ah, I remember it. It was true. ZOON: All is unreal but love, my crownéd Zoomzoomarma. Where there was not love it cannot have been true. [_He tries to take her hand again._ QUEEN: Touch not my hand. It was true. ZOON: What was the saying heard in the dream of Earth that was true? QUEEN: None is worthy to touch my hand; no, none. ZOON: By Aether Mountain, I will kiss your hand again! What is this saying out of a dream that dares deny reality? QUEEN: It is true! Oh, it is true! ZOON: Out of that hurried, aimless dream, that knows not its own end even, you have brought me a saying and say it against love. QUEEN: I say it is true! ZOON: Nothing is true against love. Fate only is greater. QUEEN: Then it is Fate. ZOON: Against Fate I will kiss your hand again. QUEEN: None are worthy. No, none. [_She draws her rapier._ ZOON: I will kiss your hand again. QUEEN: It must be this (_pointing with rapier_) for none are worthy. ZOON: Though it be death I kiss your hand again. QUEEN: It is certain death. ZOON: Oh, Zoomzoomarma, forget that troubled dream, and things said by dreamers, while I kiss your hand in heaven if only once again. QUEEN: None are worthy. It is death. None are worthy. None. ZOON: Though it be death, yet once again upon Aether Mountain in heaven I kiss your hand. QUEEN: Away! It is death. Upon the word of a Queen.