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Tannhäuser
Tannhäuser (1902), PDF p. 52
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TannhAuser.
" Once I will shew Me waking.
Destiny
" Adds one illusion to thee.
Yet, Oh child !
" Yet will
I not forsake thee
; for thy soul,
" Its splendid self, hath known Me.
Fare thee well."
Venus.
What are these strange and silly words
.■*
Awake!
Wake and devour me with the dawn of love.
The dragon to eclipse this moon of mine
!
TannhAuser.
I
sleep
not.
Those were Her mysterious words
As faded
the great vision.
And
I
knew
In some forgotten corner of my brain
Some desperate truth.
Venus.
Forget this foolishness
!
[
There cometh
a
shadow.
I
am afraid, even
I
!
What moves me thus
?
TannhAuser.
I
saw the mighty vision as before
Forming in front of the awakening
east,
All permeated with the rose of dawn,
And pale with delicate green light
and shade,
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