The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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And every languid sense repair,
Bathed in the rushing streams of cold, reviving air. Second (BERENGAR). Or shall we trust the ever-moving sea, The azure goddess, blithe and free. Whose face, the mirror of the cloudless sky, Lures to her bosom wooingly? Quick let us build on the dancing waves A floating castle gay, And merrily, merrily, swim away! Who ploughs with venturous keel the brine Of the ocean crystalline-- His bride is fortune, the world his own, For him a harvest blooms unsown:-- Here, like the wind that swift careers The circling bound of earth and sky, Flits ever-changeful destiny! Of airy chance 'tis the sportive reign, And hope ever broods on the boundless main A third (CAJETAN). Nor on the watery waste alone Of the tumultuous, heaving sea;-- On the firm earth that sleeps secure, Based on the pillars of eternity. Say, when shall mortal joy endure? New bodings in my anxious breast, |
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