MARGIT
(pludselig alvorlig).
Du må ikke undres derover;
det er kun ved midnat, når menneskene sover;
om dagen er jeg så ræd som en hind.
Og hvad er det vel mere? Mindes dig kun
hine kvinder i fremmede lande, – hun,
den fagre prinsesse; – se, hun var vild;
mod hende er jeg som lammet mild.
At længes og hige hun voved ej blot;
hun pønsed på dåd; og se det –
MARGIT.
[With sudden seriousness.]
Nay, let not that vex your mind,
’Tis only at midnight it mocks control;
By day I am timid as any hind.
How tame I have grown, you yourself must say,
When you think on the women in lands far away--
Of that fair Princess--ah, she was wild!
Beside her lamblike am I and mild.
She did not helplessly yearn and brood,
She would have acted; and that--
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