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… some flower that fell amid my hair, The lotus of eternal hope and life. Elizabeth. Dare I } 1 kiss you once upon the brow, Praying that God will make the purpose clear. And on the eyes —that He may lend them light. [ Tannhauser rises, and silently departs. Oh God ! Oh God ! That I have loved him so ! Be merciful ! Be merciful ! to him, The great high soul, bound in the lofty sin ; To me, the little soul, the little sin ! 132
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…rtalice ? Thy fiends surround me ? Hein ! their pangs begin ! I have one word, one cry, one exorcism : Ave Maria ! Venus. Mercy ! Mercy, God ! \Thtinder rolls in the nghtning-riven sky. All the illusion vanishes, and Tannhduser finds himself in a cross-way of the forest, where is a Crucifix. He is kneeling at the foot, amazed, as one awakening from a dream, or from a vision of mysterious power. Tannhauser. I am escaped as a little bird Out of the fowler's net. I thank Thee, God ! For in the pit of horror, and the clay Of death I cried, and Thou…
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…ur blessing, sirs ! I worship Mary in my simple way. And see Her name in all the starry host, And Jesus crucified on every tree For me ! God speed you to the House of God ! The Eldest Pilgrim. The Blessing of the Virgin on your head ! The Youngest Pilgrim. What make you, sir, so downcast ? Come with us Who taste all happiness in uneasiness. Hunger and thirst, in His sweet Name — Tannhauser. Ah no! I have been shown another way than yours ! I am too old in this world's weariness, 80
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…son and the mind ! This middle way Ancients called safe —that damns it instantly ! Without some danger nothing great is done ! Let me be God ! Or, failing of that task. Were it but by an unit, let me fall ! And, falling, be it from so great a height That I may reach some uttermost Abyss, Inhabit it and reign, most evil one Of all the Horrors there — and in that path Seem, even deluded, to approach once more Infinity. For all the limitless Hath no distinction —evil is no more, And good no more. Elizabeth. But God is absolute Good ! Tannhauser. N…
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Too hungry in its hunger unto God, Too foolish-wise, too passionate-cynical, To seek your royal road to Deity ! Another Pilgri M. Leave him ! Belike 'tis some philosopher With words too big to understand himself. Tannhauser. With heart too seared to understand himself! With mind too wise to understand himself! With soul too small to understand himself! Eldest Pilgrim. Cling to the Cross, sir, there is hope in that ! Tannhauser. You know not, friend, the man to whom you speak. I have lived long in miracles enough, Myself the crowning miracle of …
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…e ! Yet, am not I the willing one? Indeed I feel the wonder of that same desire From mine own side of the Impassible. See then how equal God and man are made ! For I have clothed me in the veil of flesh, And strive toward thy finite consciousness As thou art reaching to my infinite, Nurturing my Godhead at the breast of Sin With milk of fleshly stings— even to pain :— Tannhauser. I see, I see the Christian mystery ! That was the purpose of High God Himself, Clothed in the Christ ! Ah ! Triumphed He at last ? Nay, not in death ! The slave— He ro…
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…re finger. Other than mine, impulses on the string. This tune I knew not ! See, the strings are moved Subtly as if by witchcraft — or by God ! [Sings. In the Beginning God began, And saw the Night of Time begin ! Chaos, a speck ; and space, a span ; Ruinous cycles fallen in, o 105
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… well ! \^£xtt the Unknown Minstrei. Wake, wake, poor child, poor child, Elizabeth ! Elizabeth. What says my dear one ? I have been with God. Tannhauser {aside). How shall I speak ? A violent good-bye, As one distraught, ashamed .-* I had unbared My bosom to these folk, but the sole pride, My father's gift —to be a gentleman — Forbade the dying, welcome otherwise, At any despicable hands as theirs. They, they might boast —we hundred swords or so Set on the mighty Tannhauser, and slew him. We, scarce an hundred ! Yes, believe it, sirs We are not…
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…. So have I journeyed —like a fool ! Ah, well ! Let pass self-scorn, as love of self is past ! But—am I further forward ? Who can tell ? God is the Complex as the Protoplast : He is the First (not " was"), and is the Last (Not " will be "). Then why travel ? To what end? What is the symbol I am set to find ? What is that burning heart of blood to spend Caught in a sunset with the night behind, The Grail of God ? I would that I were blind ! I would that I were desolate and dumb, Naked and poor ! That He might manifest A crimson glory subtly caug…
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Heinrich. You are the poet ! To your instinct then ! Here's to the insight given us by God ! Landgrave. Wolfram is right ; a truce to jest to-day. The dogs are loose. Ride forward, gentlemen ! [Amid the winding of horns and cries of the hunts- men the company moves off. Heinrich. They hate his very name I Dear Tannhauser ! \Exit. 91
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…is sorrow, and each sorrow, force : What then ? since Swiftness gives the charioteer The palm, his hope be in the vivid horse Whose neck God clothed with thunder, not the steer Sluggish and safe ! Yoke Hatred, Crime, Remorse, Despair : but ever mind the whirling fear. Let, through the tumult, break the poet's face Radiant, assured his wild slaves win the race ! " Two Poets of Croisic.
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…angerous Even to think of! — but to speak ! Heinrich {aside). These fools ! \^He remains, thoughtfully regarding Tannhixuser. Landgrave. God avert omens ! Soft you, Tannhauser, You heard the heralds ? Tannhauser. Never a word of them ! Landgrave. You must remember my Elizabeth, My daughter — I designed to marry her To a most noble youth — 88
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…nd you evermore, Most from the fearful destiny of him Men used to call the minstrel Tannhauser ! Eldest Pilgrim. A sombre blessing ! May God's mercy fall On you and yours ! Tannhauser. On mine, ah mine I Amen Amen to that ! Eldest Pilgrim (smiles). On her you love, my friend ! We will pass onward, by your honour's leave ! Pilgrims. Hail, hail, O Queen, to Thee, Spouse of Eternity ! Av6 Maria ! 82
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…u hate this vision ? Venus. She would take Thee from these arms ! Tannhauser. But she is beautiful With Thine own beauty : yet as if the God Cancelled its mortal comeliness, and came More intimate than matter, closing in 45
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…lls asunder ; The darkness is riven ! Light, O eternal ! Life, O diurnal ! Love, O withdrawn ! Heart of my May, spring Far to Thy dawn ! God of the dayspring ! Sun on the lawn ! Hail to Thy splendour, Holy, I cry ! Mary shall bend her Face from the sky. Subtle and tender— Then I can die ! Tannhauser. The simple love of life and gladness there ! Merely to be, and worship at the heart. How complex, the machinery of me ! Better ? I doubt it. Hark ! he tunes again. n
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…ed, Lose echo of our siofhs— Love—dies ?— Love lives — in granite skirted, And under oaken skies. But best is grim December, The Goatish God his power ; The Satyr blows the ember, And pain is passion's flower ; When blood drips over kisses, And madness sobs through wine :— Ah, mine !— The snake starts up and hisses And strikes and— I am thine ! Venus. Those are thy true joys ? Cruelty for love } Tannhauser. And death in kissing. How I have despised. Riding through meadows of the rushing Rhine, 37
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…epherd-boy. Ta-lirra-lirra ! Hillo ho! The morning! \_He plays upon his flute. Tannhauser. These w^ere the melodies that I despised ! Oh God ! Be merciful to sinful me, And keep me in the Way of Truth. But Thou ! Forgive, forgive ! Lead, lead me to Thy Light ! Shepherd-boy {sings). Light in the sky Dawns to the East ! Song-bird and beast Wake and reply. Let me not die, Now, at the least ! Lord of the Light ! Queen of the dawn ! Soul of the Night Hid and withdrawn ! 76
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…n all-opening keys That bar your infinite on either side. Then ! look with freshness, hope, and fortitude Still to the summit— the ideal God. 131
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… But substitutes for one reality Another —and a lovely pleasant one. Tannhauser. Existence is illusion after all ; Man, a bad joke ; and God, mere epigram I If we must come to that. And likewise love, p 11^
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…ealize utterly how mean, how dull, How fruitless is Philosophy ! Elizabeth. Indeed My brain is baffled. But I see your point. Talking of God, even imagining. Insane! But for aspiring — that I will ! Tannhauser. That is true marriage, in my estimate. Aspire together to one Deity .-' Yes ! But to love thee otherwise than that ? Elizabeth. This one thing clearly do I understand : We shall not marry. It is well, my lord. Tannhauser. Miserable, miserable me ! I bring Hate and disruption and unhappiness Unto all purity I chance to touch. I have no ho…