Yes. And I've made a verse about it, and this is how it goes:

[Sings triumphantly.]

I am free! I am free! I am free!
No more life in the prison for me!
I am free as a bird! I am free!
For I believe I have awakened now--at last.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

It almost seems so.


MAIA.

[Drawing a deep breath.] Oh--how divinely light one feels on waking!


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

Good-night, Frau Maia--and good luck to---


ULFHEIM.

[Calls out, interposing.] Hush, hush!--for the devil's sake let's
have none of your wizard wishes. Don't you see that we are going
out to shoot---