Tristan und Isolde;Tristan and Isolda - Opera in Three Acts by Richard Wagner
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When childless he lost
once a wife, he loved thee so that ne'er again did Mark desire to marry. When all his subjects, high and low, demands and pray'rs, on him did press to choose himself a consort-- a queen to give the kingdom, when thou thyself thy uncle urged that what the court and country pleaded well might be conceded, opposing high and low, opposing e'en thyself, with kindly cunning still he refused, till, Tristan, thou didst threaten forever to leave both court and land if thou receivedst not command a bride for the king to woo: then so he let thee do.-- This wondrous lovely wife, thy might for me did win, who could behold her, |
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