"Do you still hear them?" "The sound is too distant for my ears" "They are still close" "Calling clearly from that direction" "Anxious fear misleads your ears" "You are tricked by the leaves' rustling noises" "Laughingly shaken by the wind" "You are tricked by wishful impetuosity" "To notice only what you choose" "I can hear horns calling" "No horns sound so lovely" "It is the fountain's softly rippling current" "That babbles along so sweetly" "How could I hear it if horns still brayed?" "In the silence of night" "Only the fountain laughs to me" "My lover waits for me" "In silent night" "Just because you imagine nearby horn calls" "Will you keep him away from me?" "Your lover waits for you" "But listen to my warning" "At night spies wait for him" "Just because you are blind do you imagine the sight of the world" "Is too dim to watch you?" "When we were on the ship" "And from Tristan's trembling hand" "The pale bride hardly in control of herself" "Was handed over to King Mark" "As everyone, bewildered saw you shivering" "And the kindly king" "Gently concerned" "Heard the trials of the long voyage" "And openly apologized for your hardships" "There was one man I noticed particularly" "Who fixed his eyes on Tristan alone" "With evil cunning and furtive glance" "He sought in Tristan's expression" "To find something he could use" "I often encounter him spitefully eavesdropping" "Secretly he is trapping you" "Beware of Melot" "Do you mean Sir Melot?" "Oh, how wrong you are" "Is he not Tristan's most loyal friend?" "When my lover has to avoid me" "He spends all his time with Melot" "What makes me suspect him makes you fond of him" "From Tristan to Mark is Melot's course" "And there he sows seeds of malice" "Those who today planned this hunt at night" "And fixed it with such rapid haste" "Seek a nobler quarry than your fancy imagines" "As their sporting aim" "To favor his friend" "This plot was devised out of compassion" "By his friend Melot" "Will you then reproach his loyalty?" "He looks after me better than you do" "He opens for Tristan what you close to me" "Spare me the agony of waiting" "The signal, Brangaene" "Give the signal" "Put out the torch's last flame" "Call to the night that it descend upon us" "Already it has shed its silence" "Through groves and houses" "Already it fills my heart" "With blissful tremors" "Put out the light now" "Put out its unwelcoming glare" "Let my lover in" "Leave the warning light burning" "Let it show you the danger" "Alas, oh, alas" "Wretch that I am" "That accursed potion" "To think that just once I was disloyal and disobeyed my mistress' orders" "Had I deafly and blindly obeyed" "Your action would have brought death" "But your disgrace your most shameful distress" "Was my doing" "I must take the blame for it" "Your doing?" "Foolish girl" "Did you not recognize the love goddess?" "Nor the power of her magic?" "That queen of boldest hearts" "The ruler of the world's existence" "Life and death" "Are subject to her" "She who weaves them" "Out of joy and sorrow" "Transforming envy into love" "That fatal deed" "Which I presumptuously undertook" "The love goddess" "Wrested it from my power" "I vowed my own death but she took me as hostage" "And took the enterprise into her own hands" "However she may direct it" "However she may end it" "Whatever she decrees for me" "Wherever she leads me" "I always belonged to her" "Now let me show obedience" "Even if you were forced by love's deceitful potion" "To lose the light of your senses" "Even if you cannot see when I warn you" "Now at least listen Listen to my entreaty" "The light that signals danger" "Today, today at least" "Do not put out that torch" "In my breast it kindles a flame" "My heart it sets on fire" "Like daylight" "It laughs in my soul" "The love goddess ordains" "It shall be night" "So that she may shine brightly there" "There where your light made her hide" "Get to your post" "And there keep faithful watch" "The light" "Even if it were the light of my life" "Laughingly I do not hesitate to extinguish it" "Isolde" "Tristan" "Beloved" " Are you mine?" " Have I recovered you?" " Can I hold you?" " Can I believe my eyes?" " At last, at last" " On my breast" " Do I really feel you?" " Is it yourself I see?" " Are these your eyes?" " Is this your mouth?" " Is it your hand here?" " Is it your heart here?" "Is it I, is it you?" " Am I holding you tightly?" " Is it no deception?" "Isn't it a dream?" "O ecstasy of soul" "O sweetest, most glorious" "Bravest, loveliest most blessed joy" " Incomparable" " Supreme treasure" " Supremely happy for ever" " For ever" "Unimagined Never known" "Boundless Lofty, sublime" " Jubilation" " Enchantment" "Into the highest heaven" "We are transported from the world" "Mine" " Tristan mine" " Isolde mine" "Mine and yours" " Tristan mine forever" " Isolde mine forever" "Forever one" "How long far apart How far apart so long" "How distant, so near So near, how distant" "O enemy of friends vile distance" "Tedious time long drawn out" "O far and near Harsh separation" "Blessed nearness Barren distance" "You in the dark I in the light" "The light, the light That light" "How long it burned undimmed" "The sun went down The day departed" "But its spite was not stifled" "Its signal of banishment was ignited" "And posted on my beloved's doorway" "So that I would not go to her" "But your beloved's hand put out the light" "My maid opposed it but I was not afraid" "Governed and protected by the goddess of love" "I defied the day" "The day, the day" "The deceitful day" "Implacable enemy loathed and lamented" "Just as you extinguished the torch" "So would I the daylight" "To avenge lovers' sorrows on impudent day" "Is there an agony Is there a pain" "That it does not rouse with its brightness?" "Even in night's darkling splendor" "My love harbored the day on her house" "And pointed it menacingly at me" "Though your love harbored it on her own house" "In your own heart clear and bright" "It was once harbored by my lover" "Tristan who betrayed me" "Was it not the daylight that lied from within you" "When towards Ireland you went courting" "To win me for Mark" "And to doom your beloved to death?" "The day, the day that shone around you" "There where you equaled the sun" "In highest honor's brightness and radiance" "The day removed you from me, Isolde" "What so enchanted my eyes" "Weighed my heart down to the ground" "In day's bright light" "How could Isolde be mine?" "Was she not yours who chose you?" "What lies did evil daylight tell you" "So that you could betray the woman destined for you, your lover?" "All that shone around you in sublimest splendor" "The radiance of nobility" "The authority of fame" "In order to set my heart upon these things" "Madness made me its captive" "Their scintillating bright radiance" "Filled my head and mind with crystalline light" "World renown" "Like the midday sun" "With its beams of vain delight" "Ran through my head and mind" "Right into my heart's deepest recesses" "That which awoke there in chaste night" "Locked in the darkness" "That which unknown and unimagined" "I dimly perceived" "Was an image" "That my eyes did not trust themselves to see" "But when daylight fell there" "It was brilliant and obvious" "It seemed so praiseworthy and noble to me" "That I praised it roundly to all the army" "I spoke loud praise to all the people" "Of the earth's fairest royal bride" "The envy in me that daylight roused" "The eagerness that my fortune disturbed" "The grudge that began to burden my honor and fame" "These I defied and firmly decided" "To defend both honor and fame" "By traveling to Ireland" "You worthless slave of the day" "Deceived by what deceived you" "How much I, loving had to suffer for you" "You who were trapped" "In daytime's false display and shifting illusions" "And there where love held you warmly" "Deep in my heart I hated you utterly" "At the bottom of my heart" "How deeply the wound ached" "Secretly I hid you" "But how vile you seemed" "When, in broad daylight" "The man I alone truly cherished" "Vanished from my loving sight" "And stood before me only as foe" "From that which told me you were treacherous" "From the light of day I longed to escape" "And draw you with me into the night" "Where illusions would end" "As my heart promised me" "And where the tricks I foresaw would dissolve like illusions" "To drink there with you everlasting love" "In a covenant between us" "I vowed death to us both" "In your hands was sweet death" "When I recognized what you offered me" "When my guess sublimely and surely" "Showed what my repentance promised" "Then dusk gently fell dignified and powerful" "In my breast it was night" "Day was done for me then" "But you were tricked by the wrong drink" "And once again your night disappeared" "When you longed only for death" "It restored you to daylight" "I hail that drink" "I hail its potion" "I hail its magic and sublime power" "Through the gates of death" "Where the potion flowed to me" "It revealed clearly before me" "A place where I previously awoke only in dreams" "The magic realm of night" "From the vision in my heart's sheltering shrine" "It exiled daylight's deceiving brightness" "So that my eyes, night-sighted" "Were able to see it truthfully" "But vengeance came from the day you banished" "It conspired with your sins" "What you were shown by oncoming night" "The daystar's regal power made you surrender" "So that you had to live alone" "Shining in empty splendor" "How could I bear it then?" "How can I bear it now?" "Now we have become night's devotees" "Artful daylight, armed for spite" "Could separate us by wile" "But never again trick us with lies" "Its empty pomp" "Its boastful semblance" "Are all laughable when night has blessed our eyes" "Day's flickering light and fleeting flash" "Can no longer dazzle us" "When at the night of death we have lovingly gazed" "When its profound secrets are confided to us" "The lies of daylight" "Fame and honor" "Power and success" "Gleaming so brightly" "Become mere dust in sunlight" "And are dispersed by it" "Of all the empty fancies of day" "Only one longing remains" "The longing for holy night" "Where from time immemorial" "The sole truth" "Is love's laughing ecstasy" "Descend upon us, night of love" "Let me forget that I am alive" "Take me in your lap" "Release me from the world" "Extinguished now is the last light" "What we thought" "What we imagined" "All memories" "All recollection" "Sacred twilight's sublime promise" "Extinguishes imagined terrors" "Releasing us from the world" "Hidden in our hearts is the sun" "Gaily gleam the stars of delight" "We are gently enfolded in your spell" "Melting sweetly before your eyes" "Heart to heart, lips to lips" "One breath binds us in unity" "My eyes grow dim blinded with bliss" "And the world fades away along with its glare" "The world which lying day illuminates for us fades" "And resisting the deceptive illusion" "Then I myself am the world" "Transcendent bliss" "Life of highest love" "Nevermore to awaken" "Illusionless" "Sweet conscious desire" "Alone" "I keep watch" "In the night" "I watch over you on whom love's dream smiles" "Heed the cry of your guard" "She foresees evil for the sleepers" "And anxiously she bids you to awaken" "Beware" "Beware" "Night will soon disappear" "Listen" "Beloved" "Let me die" "Jealous sentinel" "Nevermore to awaken" "But daylight must wake Tristan" "Let the daylight yield to death" "Day and death" "Wouldn't they strike our love with equal force?" "Our love?" "Tristan's love?" "Yours and mine?" "Isolde's love?" "What stroke of death" "Could ever weaken it?" "Even if I were faced by mighty death" "Though he threatened my body and life" "Which I would gladly relinquish for love" "How could its blow touch love itself?" "If I died for her now" "For whom I would so gladly die" "How could love die with me?" "How could the eternally living end with me?" "But if Tristan's love cannot die" "How can Tristan die in his love?" "Yet our love" "Isn't its name Tristan and Isolde?" "The sweet word "and"" "Binds love's union" "If Tristan died" "Would not death sever it?" "What could death kill" "Except what hinders us" "That which prevents Tristan from loving Isolde forever" "And living forever for her alone?" "But this little word "and"" "If it were destroyed" "How else than with Isolde's own life" "Could death claim Tristan?" "Then we should die" "And never be separated" "Eternally at one" "Endlessly" "Never to awake" "Never to be anxious" "Namelessly enfolded in love" "Given completely to one another" "Living only in our love" "Then we should die" "And never be separated" "Eternally at one" "Endlessly" "Never to be awake" "Never to be anxious" "Namelessly enfolded in love" "Given completely to one another" "Living only in our love" "Beware" "Beware" "Night will soon yield to day" "Must I listen?" "Let me die" "Must I awaken?" "Nevermore to awaken" "Must the daylight wake Tristan again" "Let the day yield to death" "The scowl of day" "Is this how we defy it?" "We escape forever its illusion" "Would its dawning glow never scare us?" "Night would protect us eternally" "O everlasting night" "Sweet night" "Noble, sublime night of love" " Those who you enfold" " Those on whom you smile" "How but through fear could they ever be awoken from your keeping?" "Now banish that fear, blessed death" "Yearning, we ask for love in death" "In your arms devoted to you" "Most sacred warmth" "Freed from the agony of waking" "How to grasp" "How to release this bliss?" "Far away from the sun" "Far away from daylight and cries of separation" "Without illusions" "Most silent longing" "Without anxiety" "Sweet yearning" "Without pain" "Sublime death" "Without yearning" "Enfolded in sweet night" "Never kept apart" "Never separated" "Only close together" "At home forever in immeasurable space" "Most blessed dreams" " You are Isolde" " You are Tristan" " I, Tristan" " I, Isolde" " Isolde no more" " Tristan no more" " No more names, no more parting" " Everlasting" " Known anew, ignited anew" " Endless" "Forever one consciousness" "Endless, forever" "Hearts kindled with passion" "Love's supreme delight" " Endless, forever" " Hearts kindled with passion" "Love's supreme delight" "Save yourself, Tristan" "Empty daylight" "For the last time" "Sir, will you tell me whether I accused him rightly" "Whether I have retained my head which I gave you as pledge?" "I have shown him to you in the very act" "Your name and honor" "I have faithfully defended from disgrace" "Did you really do so?" "Do you suppose so?" "Look at him there" "The most loyal of all men" "Gaze at him" "The most devoted of friends" "His freest act of devotion" "Was to stab my heart with most hostile treachery" "If Tristan betrayed me" "How could I hope that what his deceit took from me" "Could be restored to me by Melot's advice?" "Daytime specters, morning dreams deceptive and empty" "Vanish!" "Be gone!" "You say this to me?" "This, Tristan, to me?" "What does trust mean" "Now that Tristan has betrayed me?" "What do honor and honest behavior mean" "Now that the champion of all honor Tristan, has lost them?" "The sign that Tristan chose for his insignia" "Where has virtue gone now?" "Since it fled from my friend" "Since Tristan betrayed me" "To what end the unstinted service" "The honor and prestige" "The greatness and the power that you won for Mark?" "Must honor and prestige greatness and power" "And your unstinted service" "Be paid back with Mark's disgrace?" "Did his gratitude seem too small to you" "When all that you won for him his fame and kingdom" "He gave to you as heir and owner?" "Childless once" "Mark lost his wife" "But he loved you so" "That he decided never to marry again" "When all the people at court and in the country" "Beseeching and threatening" "Urged him to give the country a queen" "By choosing a wife for himself" "You yourself then vowed to your uncle" "That the court's wish and the country's will" "Would be satisfied by you" "Resisting court and country" "Resisting you yourself" "The king declined with diplomacy and kindness" "Until you, Tristan" "Threatened to leave forever both court and country" "If you yourself were not dispatched" "To gain a bride for the king" "Then he gave in" "This miraculous woman" "That your courage won for me" "Who could behold her" "Who could know her" "Who with pride could call her his own" "Without counting himself blessed?" "She who my will never dared to approach" "She who my desire renounced in reverence" "She, so glorious fair and noble" "Could only delight my soul" "Despite enemies and perils" "You brought me this royal bride" "Now with such a possession" "You have made my heart more sensitive to pain than before" "There, where I am weakest tender and bare" "I have been struck without a hope that I could ever be healed" "Why, wretched man" "Why do you now wound me so grievously" "There with your weapon's torturing poison" "That scorches and destroys my senses and mind" "That denies me faith in my friend" "That fills my unprotected heart with suspicion" "So that now secretly in the dead of night" "I spy and eavesdrop on a friend?" "Has my honor come to an end?" "No heaven can restore it" "Why did you give me this hell?" "Misery cannot expiate it" "Why am I dealt this disgrace?" "There is some inscrutable deep secret cause of this" "Who will reveal it to the world?" "O King" "That I cannot tell you" "And what you ask" "You can never find out" "Where Tristan is going now" "Will you, Isolde, now follow him?" "In the land that Tristan speaks of" "The sunlight never shines" "It is the dark land of night" "From which my mother sent me" "When he who she conceived in death" "By her death was brought to the light" "That which at my birth was her loving secret" "The magic realm of night from which I once awoke" "This is what Tristan offers to you" "He will go there first" "Whether you will follow him" "Loyally, happily" "Now let Isolde tell him" "For a foreign land" "My friend once courted me" "He was unkind" "But loyally and happily" "Isolde had to follow him" "Now you lead on to your own land" "To show me your heritage" "How could I run away from the land" "That encompasses the whole world?" "Wherever Tristan's house and home are" "Isolde will go" "So that she may follow loyally and happily" "Now show Isolde the way" "Traitor!" "Vengeance, King" "Will you tolerate this disgrace?" "Who dares his life against mine?" "This man was my friend" "He loved me nobly and dearly" "He cared more than any other for my honor and good name" "He incited my heart to arrogance" "He led the forces who urged me to increase my honor and repute" "By wedding you to the king" "Isolde, your eyes dazzled him too" "Out of jealousy he betrayed me, his friend" "To the king whom I betrayed" "Defend yourself, Melot"