Tristan und Isolde;Tristan and Isolda - Opera in Three Acts by Richard Wagner
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who address her,
who in pride and bliss possess her, but would bless his happy fortune? She whom I have paid respect to ever, whom I owned, yet possess'd her never she, the princess proud and peerless, lighting up my life so cheerless, 'spite foes,--without fear, the fairest of brides thou didst bring me here. Why in hell must I bide, without hope of a heaven? Why endure disgrace unhealed by tears or grief? The unexplained, unpenetrated cause of all these woes, who will to us disclose? TRISTAN (_raising his eyes pitifully towards_ MARK). O monarch! I-- may not tell thee, truly; what thou dost ask remains for aye unanswered.-- |
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