PEER GYNT
Here I might fittingly start on my wanderings.—
So now, for a change, I’ve become an Egyptian;
but Egyptian on the basis of the Gyntish I.
To Assyria next I will bend my steps.
To begin right back at the world’s creation
would lead to nought but bewilderment.
I will go round about all the Bible history;
its secular traces I’ll always be coming on;
and to look, as the saying goes, into its seams,
lies entirely outside both my plan and my powers.
[Sits upon a stone.]
Now I will rest me, and patiently wait
till the statue has sung its habitual dawn-song.
When breakfast is over, I’ll climb up the pyramid;
if I’ve time, I’ll look through its interior afterwards.
Then I’ll go round the head of the Red Sea by land;
perhaps I may hit on King Potiphar’s grave.—