SOLNESS.

The I did the impossible--I, no less than he.


HILDA.

The impossible?


SOLNESS.

I had never before been able to climb up to a great, free height.
But that day I did it.


HILDA.

[Leaping up.] Yes, yes, you did!


SOLNESS.

And when I stood there, high over everything, and was hanging the
wreath over the vane, I said to him: Hear me now, thou Mighty One!
From this day forward I will be a free builder--I too, in my sphere--
just as thou in thine. I will never more build churches for thee--
only homes for human beings.