Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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I shall be silent; But what of sinful in the eye of heaven Springs out of it--not I, not I could help; It falls upon thy head. NATHAN. So let it, Daya. Where is she then? What stays her? Surely, surely, You're not amusing me--And does she know That I'm arrived? DAYA. That you yourself must speak to, Terror still vibrates in her every nerve. Her fancy mingles fire with all she thinks of. Asleep, her soul seems busy; but awake, Absent: now less than brute, now more than angel. NATHAN. Poor thing! What are we mortals - DAYA. As she lay This morning sleeping, all at once she started And cried: "list, list! there come my father's camels!" |
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