"Westwards the gaze roves" "Eastwards the ship streaks" "The wind blows fresh towards home" "My Irish child Where are you lingering?" "Is it the breath of your sighs" "That billows my sails?" "Blow, blow, you wind" "Woe, ah, woe, my child" "Irish girl" "You wild, lovesome girl" "Who dares to mock me?" "Brangaene, tell me" "Where are we?" "Strips of blue" "Are rising up to westward" "Calmly and quickly" "The ship sails on" "By evening, with a calm sea" "We shall safely reach land" "What land?" "ComwalFs green coast" "Never, not today nor tomorrow" "What do I hear, lady?" "Degenerate breed" "Unworthy of your ancestors" "Mother, to whom did you bestow the power" "To hold sway over sea and storms?" "How tame the art of the sorceress" "Who only brews healing potions" "Awake in me again, bold power" "Come out from the bosom" "Where you were hiding" "Hear my decree, you la ggardly winds" "Rise up to battle and to strife" "To howling storms and raging Whirlpools" "Drive from its sleep this dreaming ocean" "Awake from the depths its spiteful greed" "Show it the victim I offer" "Let it destroy this insolent ship" "Let it swallow the shattered fragments" "And all that lives and breathes upon it" "I leave to you, winds as your reward" "Woe, alas Alas for the bane that I foresaw" "Isolde, lady, dear heart" "What did you hide from me so long?" "Not a tear did you weep for father 0r mother" "Hardly a farewell you bade to those left behind" "Leaving your own country coldly and speechless" "Pale and silent" "On the voyage" "Without food, without sleep" "Numb and miserable" "Wildly distraught" "How did I endure to see you so" "To mean nothing to you" "To stand like a stranger before you?" "Now tell me" "What disturbs you" "Speak, tell me" "What grieves you" "Lady Isolde" "Dearest beauty" "If she is to show her worth to you" "Now confide in Brangaene" "Air, air My heart is stabbing me" "Open, open up there" "The wind blows fresh towards home" "My Irish child where are you lingering?" "Is it the breath of your sighs" "That billows my sails?" "Blow, wind, blow" "Woe, my child, woe" "Chosen for me" "Lost to me" "Glorious and robust" "Bold and cowardly" "I swore death" "To that head" "I swore death" "To that heart" "What do you think ofthat underling?" "Whom do you mean?" "That hero there" "Who from my eyes hides his own?" "And ashamed and timid looks away" "Say, how does he look to you?" "Can you be asking about Tristan, dear lady?" "The marvel of all nations" "That highly praised man" "The peerless hero" "Guardian and champion of fame?" "Who, fearful of the blow" "Takes refuge where he can" "Since a bride as a corpse" "He won for his master" "Does it seem obscure to you what I say?" "Then ask him yourself that free man" "If he dares to approach me" "Respectful greetings and polite attention to his lady" "Are forgotten by that timorous hero" "For fear that her gaze might light" "On the peerless hero" "Oh, he knows well why" "Go to the haughty fellow" "Tell him what his lady says" "Ready to do my bidding" "He is promptly to attend on me" "Am I to ask him" "To give you good day?" "Let my command" "To that self-fancier" "Inspire fear of his lady" "Me, Isolde" "Watch out, Tristan A message from Isolde" "What is it ?" "From Isolde?" "From my lady?" "Is it my duty to listen" "To what is courteously told me by her faithful maid?" "My lord, Tristan" "T0 see you" "Is the wish of Isolde my mistress" "The long voyage distresses her" "It is coming to an end" "Before the sun has set" "We shall be on land" "What my lady commands me" "Shall be loyally fulfilled" "Then my lord Tristan will g0 to her" "That is my mistress's will" "Over there where the green meadows" "Still look blue to our gaze" "My king is waiting for my lady" "In order to conduct her to the king" "I shall soon approach her radiant self" "I will grant no other man that privilege" "My lord Tristan Listen well" "Your services are required by my lady" "You must attend on her instantly" "Over there where she waits for you" "On every spot where I stand" "I am loyally serving her" "The most highly honored among women" "If I left the rudder at this moment" "How could I steer the boat securely" "To King Mark's country?" "Tristan, my lord" "Why do you mock me?" "If you do not clearly understand this foolish maid" "Then hear my mistress's words" "She told me I should say this" "Let my command" "To that self-fancier" "Inspire fear of his lady" "Fear of Isolde" "May I give the answer?" "What then would you reply?" "Let her say this to Isolde" "Through ComwalFs crown?" "And England's heritage" "Bestowed upon the maid of Ireland" "The maiden cannot treat as herproperty" "Him who gives her to his uncle" "A lord of the world ls Tristan the hero" "I will proclaim it Now tel!" "her so" "Even though a thousand Isoldes may complain about me" "Sir Morold went forth to sea" "To extort taxes from Cornwall" "An island floats on the lonely sea" "And there he now lies buried" "But his head still hangs in Ireland" "As duty paid by England" "Hurrah for our lord Tristan" "How ably he pays his taxes" "But his head still hangs in Ireland" "As duty paid by England" "Hurrah for our lord Tristan" "How ably he pays his taxes" "Pain and sorrow to endure this" "Now tell me about Tristan I want to know in detail" "Oh, do not ask" "Tell me frankly without fear" "With courteous words he shirked the issue" "But when you plainly warned" "When I urgently called him to you" "Where he stands, he said" "He loyally serves her" "The most honored among women" "If he left the rudder at this moment" "How could he steer the boat securely" "To King Mark's country?" "How could he steer the boat securely" "To King Mark's country?" "To pay up the tax to him" "That he levied from Ireland" "At your own words when I reported them to him" "He let his faithful Kurwenal answer" "I heard him clearly" "No word escaped me" "Since you have learned my shame" "Now know what caused it" "How derisively they sing songs at me" "Yet I too could reply" "About a boat, small and wretched" "That floated to Ireland's coast" "III within it" "A sick man" "Lay miserable and dying Isolde's skill" "Was known to him" "With healing ointments" "And soothing potions" "The wounds that pained him" "She faithfully nursed there" "Tantris he called himself with careful guile" "But Isolde soon recognized him as Tristan" "When she noticed a nick in the patienfs sword" "Into this spot A fragment fitted exactly" "That once, in the head ofthat Irish knight sent home to mock her" "With skillful hands she had discovered" "Then I cried out from the depths ofmy soul" "With that bright sword I stood before him" "That overweening man" "To avenge Sir Morolds death on him?" "From his couch" "He looked up" "Not at the sword" "Not at the hand" "He looked me in the eyes" "His wretchedness moved me to pity" "The sword" "I let it fall" "I healed the wounds that Morold dealt" "So that he would return home healed" "And trouble me no more with his gaze" "Oh, miracle Where were my eyes?" "The visitor whom once I helped to nurse lust now you heard him acclaimed" "Hurrah for our hero Tristan" "He was that wretched man" "With a thousand oaths he vowed" "Eternal thanks and loyalty to me" "Now hear how a hero keeps his promises" "He who as Tantris I let g0 unrecognized" "As Tristan boldly returned" "On a stately ship with a lofty deck" "The heiress of Ireland he besought as bride" "For ComwalFs weary king" "His uncle Mark" "When Morold was alive" "Who would have ever dared" "To cause us such shame?" "For the tax-owing Cornish princes" "To go courting after Ireland's crown" "Oh, I am wretched" "It was I myself" "Who secretly brought shame on myself" "Instead ofwielding that avenging sword" "I dropped it, powerless" "Now I am servant" "To that vassal" "When peace, reconciliation and friendship" "Were sworn by everybody" "We all rejoiced that day" "How could I have suspected that it would cause you sadness?" "O unseeing eyes" "Foolish hearts" "Docile spirits" "Fainthearted silence" "How differently he blurts out, that Tristan" "What I kept secret" "To him my silence gave life" "From his foe's revenge" "Silence concealed him" "My silent protection" "Afforded him his cure" "He surrendered all that and me" "Glowing with victory Hale and hearty" "Clear and loud He drew attention to me" "That would be a treasure" "My lord and uncle" "How would you like to marry her" "I'll bring the fair Irish maid here" "I'm well acquainted with paths and tracks" "One nod and I'II be offto Ireland" "Isolde will be yours" "The adventure delights me" "Curse you, villain" "A curse upon your head" "Revenge" "Death" "Death to us both" "My sweet, my darling" "My deal', my pretty" "Golden mistress" "Lovely Isolde" "Listen to me" "Come" "Sit down here" "What madness" "What pointless fury" "How can you delude yourself" "So that you do not see or hear clearly?" "Whatever Sir Tristan owes to you" "Tell me, could he repay it more highly" "Than with the most glorious of crowns?" "In this he has faithfully served his noble uncle" "And to you he has given" "The most enviable reward" "His own heritage rightful and noble" "He's renounced at your feet" "50 as to hail you as queen" "And if he has won Mark" "As a husband for you" "Why should you complain ofthe choice?" "Should you not hold him in esteem?" "Of noble lineage" "And gentle disposition" "Who compares with this man" "In power or splendor?" "The king whom a most glorious hero serves so loyally" "Who would not want" "To share that lord's fortune" "And to dwell with him as spouse?" "Unloved" "By that most glorious man" "Yet always seeing him near me" "How could I endure the torture" "What are you thinking of Wicked girl?" "Unloved?" "Where does the man live" "Who would not love you?" "Who could see Isolde" "And not glad/y die for Isolde 's sake?" "Yet the man chosen for you" "Be he ever so cold" "Or be he turned away from you by a spell" "For all his wickedness Iwould know how to control him quickly" "The power of love would tame him?" "Do you know your mothefis arts or not?" "Do you imagine that she who always ponders wisely" "Would not have prepared for the foreign land" "To which she sent me with you?" "My mother's preparation" "I remember well" "I value and welcome her art" "Revenge for betrayal" "My heart's comfort in distress" "That chest there Bring it to me" "It contains something to bring you help" "Your mother disposed them so" "The powerful magic potions" "For pains and wounds this ointment here" "For deadly poisons an antidote" "The most marvelous potion" "ls the one I hold here" "You 're wrong" "I know it better" "I cut a deep mark into it" "This is the potion for my purpose" "The potion of death" "Ho, hey Lower mast" "Ha, hey Shorten sail" "Ho, hey Lower mast" " Shorten sail" " That means a quick voyage" "W0e's me Land is near" "UP, UP, you women" "Brisk and cheerful, look lively now Get ready, quick and spry" "And to the Lady Isolde lam to say" "From Tristan the hero my master" "From the masthead let the flag ofjoy" "Cheerfully blow towards land" "In Mark's royal castle" "Let it give news of her approach" "Therefore Lady Isolde is bidden to hurry" "And make ready for landing" "So that he can escort her" "Bring Sir Tristan my greeting" "And tell him what I say" "If!" "am to go at his side" "And stand before King Mark" "It cannot rightly and properly happen" "Unless I receive an apology beforehand" "For an unexpiated wrong" "So let him seek my pardon" "Take careful note and report it truly" "I am not willing to get ready" "To accompany him ashore" "I will not walk beside him" "To stand before King Mark" "He must beseech me to forgive and forget" "As is right and proper beforehand" "For an unexpiated wrong" "My pardon would grant that to him" "Know forsure that I will tel!" "him this" "Now wait and see how he reacts" "Farewell now, Brangaene" "Give the world my regards" "Greet my father and mother" "What is it?" "What are you planning?" "Did you want to run away?" "Where shall I follow you?" "Did you not hear?" "[shall remain here" "I am expecting Tristan" "Faithfully obey my command" "The potion of atonement must be prepared quickly" "You know the one I showed you?" "Which one?" "This potion" "Into the golden goblet pour it out" "When it is full, it holds it all" " Can I believe my ears?" " Be true to me" "The potion?" "For whom?" "Tristan?" "He who betrayed me must drink to my forgiveness" "Appalling Spare my wretchedness" "You must spare me disloyal maid" "Do you know my mothefis arts or not?" "Do you imagine that she who always ponders wisely" "Would not have prepared for the foreign land" "To which she sent me with you?" "For pain and wounds" "She provided ointment" "For deadly poisons" "An antidote" "For deepest pain" "For surpassing sorrow" "She gave me" "The death potion" "Now let death" "Be grateful to her" "O deepest pain" "Now will you obey me?" "O surpassing sorrow" " Are you loyal to me?" " The potion" "Sir Tristan" "Let Sir Tristan" "Draw near" "Lady, demand what you wish" "Do you not know what I demand" "Since fear of fulfilling it for me" "Kept you far from my sight?" "Respect kept me in awe" "Scant respect" "You have offered me" "With open scorn you withheld obedience to my orders" "Only obedience held me in check [should have little to thank your master" "If your service demanded bad manners to his own bride" "Where I have lived convention dictates" "That on the bridal journey the bride's escort" "Should keep far from the bride" "For fear of what?" "Ask convention" "As you are so conventional my lord Tristan" "One other convention must now be recalled" "You must make your peace with an enemy" "If he is to honor you as a friend" "What enemy?" "Ask your own fear" "Bloodguilt hangs between us" " It was atoned for" " Not between us" "In the open field before all the people" "An oath of truce was sworn" "It was not there where I hid Tantris" "Where Tristan was my victim" "There he stood in splendor" "Hale and hearty" "But what he swore" "I did not swear" "I had learned to hold my peace" "When in the quiet room he lay ill" "Silent with the sword I stood before him" "I did not open my mouth" "My hands did not move" "But what once with hand and mouth I vowed" "I swore to fulfill silently" "Now!" "will keep my vow" "What did you swear, lady?" "Revenge for Morold" " Does that trouble you?" " D0 you dare to mock me?" "He was betrothed to me" "The glorious Irish hero" "His weapons I had consecrated" "For me he went out to battle" "When he fell" "My honor fell" "Heavy at heart" "I swore the oath" "Ifa man would not avenge the murder" "I, a maid, would dare it" "As you lay sick and feeble" "In my power" "Why did I not strike you down then?" "Say it yourself The words are easy" "I tended his wounds" "So that, hale and hearty he would be killed in revenge" "By the man who won Isolde from him?" "Your fate you may now discern for yourself" "Since all men are now allied with Tristan" "Who now must slay him?" "lfMorold was so dear to you" "Then take this sword once more" "And drive it sure and firm" "Lest it slip from your hand" "How poorly I would be treating your master" "What would King Mark say" "If I slew his best vassal" "The man who won him his crown and his land" "The most loyal ofall his men?" "Do you deem his debt to you so little" "For bringing the Irish maid to him as his bride?" "Would he not scold me" "If I slaughtered the suitor" "Who delivered the hostage of peace faithfully into his hands?" "Sheathe your sword" "That first time I raised it" "When my vengeance raged in my bosom" "While your calculating eyes" "Took their measure of me" "To see whether!" "would make King Mark a worthy bride" "Then I let the sword drop" "Now" "Let us drink to reconciliation" "Ho, hey Topmast" "Ha, hey Shorten sail" "Ho, hey Topmast" "Ha, hey Shorten sail" "Where are we?" "Close to our destination" "Tristan, will I get my apology?" "What have you to say to me?" "The mistress of silence bids me be silent" "I have understood what she concealed" "Now I shall conceal" "What she does not understand" "I understand your silence" "Though you evade me" "Are you refusing me reconciliation?" "Do you hear their shouts?" "We are at our destination" "In just a few moments" "We shall stand before King Mark" "When you escort me" "Wouldn't you think it fair" "If you were thus to tell him" "My master and uncle lust look at her" "A gentler wife you could never have won" "Her bridegroom I once murdered" "And sent his head home to her" "The wounds that his weapons inflicted 0n me" "She tenderly healed" "My life lay in her power" "She granted it to me" "That lovely girl" "And her countryk shame and disgrace" "She granted along with it" "So as to be your bride" "For such good gifts" "I am heartily thankful" "Since she made me a sweet potion of atonement" "With it she granted me pardon" "Expiating all my guilt" "Haul on lines" "Drop anchor" "Away with the anchor To the tide with the rudder" "To the winds with sail and mast" "Well I know Ireland's queen" "And her arts' magic power" "I used the ointment she offered me" "Now I take the cup" "So that today I may be healed completely" "And heed as well the oath of atonement" "That I give you in thanks" "Tristan's honor" "Supreme faith" "Tristan 's suffering" "Boldest defiance" "A trick ofthe heart" "A dream of premonition" "Eternal mouming's only comfort" "Obliviorfs kindly potion" "I drink you unflinching" "Cheated here as well?" "Half is for me" "Traitor" "I drink to you" "Tristan" "Isolde" "Faithless beloved" "Angelic woman" "Hail, hail, King Mark" "Sorrow, sorrow inescapable endless grief instead of sudden death" "My foolish loyalty made me act deceitfully" "And now misery is the result" "What did I dream about Tristan's honor?" "What did I dream about Isolde's disgrace?" " Are you lost to me?" " Are you banished from me?" " Insidious magic 's deceitful gui/e" " Foolish angers vain threats" " Isolde" " Tristan" " Sweetest woman" " Most beloved man" "How our hearts surge like waves" "How all our senses tremble with delight" "Yearning love's expanding blossoms" "Longing passion's blessed warmth" "Suddenly in my bosom ajubilant delight" " Isolde" " Tristan" " Isolde" " Escaped from the world" " Isolde is won for me" " You are won for me, Tristan" " Isolde" " You are won for me" "I am only conscious of you" "Love's supreme delight" "Quickly, the cloak the royal robe" "Hapless ones, wake up Do you hear where we are?" "Hail, hail, hail" "Hail, King Mark" "Hail to the king" "Hail, Tristan Lucky hero" "Hail, King Mark" "With an entourage 0n a boat there" "King Mark draws near" "How he enjoys the trip that will win him his bride" "Who is coming?" "The king" "What king?" "Hail, hail, King Mark" "What is it, Brangaene?" "What is that shouting?" "Mistress Isolde Compose yourself this once" "Where am I?" "Am I alive?" "What was that drink?" "The love potion" " Tristan" " Isolde" " Do I have to live?" " Help your mistress" "O spiteful rapture" "O happiness born of deceit" "Cornwall, hail" "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 fountaifis softly rippling current" "That babbles along so sweetly" "How could I hear it if horns st/I/ brayed?" "In the silence of night" "Only the fountain laughs to me" "My lover waits for me" "In silent night lust 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 lust 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 0n Tristan alone" "With evil cunning and furtive glance" "He sought 1?" "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 Tristarfs 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 ofh/m" "From Tristan to Mark is Melofs 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 ofwaiting" "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 ldo not hesitate to extinguish it" "Isolde" "Tristan" "Beloved" " Are you mine?" " Have I recovered you?" " Can I holdyou?" " Can I believe my eyes?" " At last, at last" " On my breast" " Do I really feel you?" " ls it yourself I see?" " Are these your eyes?" " ls thisyour mouth?" " Is it your hand here?" " ls it your heart here?" "Is it I, is ityou?" " Am I holding you tightly?" " ls 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" "lust as you extinguished the torch" "So would I the daylight" "To avenge lovers' sorrows on impudent day" "Is there an agony ls there a pain" "That it does not rouse with its brightness?" "Even in night's darkling splendor" "My love harbored the day 0n her house" "And pointed it menacingly at me" "Though your love harbored it 0n 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 honofs 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 aroundyou 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 hearts 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 [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, Iovin g 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 ofday 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 lile illusions" "To drink there with you everlasting love" "In 3 COVGHZHt bGtWGGH U5" "I vowed death to us both" "In your hands was sweet death" "When [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 daystafs 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 nighfs devotees" "Artful daylight, armed for spite" "Could separate us by wile" "But never again trick us with lies" "Its empty POTTTP" "Its boastful semblance" "Are all laughable when night has blessed our eyes" "Days flickering light and fleeting flash" "Can no longer dazzle us" "When at the night ofdeath we have lovingly gazed" "When its profound secrets are confided to us" "The lies of daylight" "Fame and honor" "POWGI' 311d 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" "Ne vermo/"e to awaken" "Illusionless" "Sweet conscious desire" "Alone" "I keep watch" "In the night" "I watch over you 0n whom I0ve'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" "Ne vermo/"e to awaken" "But daylight must wake Tristan" "Let the daylight yield to death" "Day and death" "wouldnt 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?" "Ifl 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?" "Ne vermo/"e 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" "FOFQVQF 0H6 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!" "have retained my head which Igaveyou 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?" "D0 YOU Suppose so?" "Look at him there" "The most loyal ofall 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 Melofs 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 countrj/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 cal!" "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 ofnight" "I spy and eavesdrop 0n a friend?" "Has my honor come to an end?" "N0 heaven can restore f2'" "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" "Kurwenal" "Tell me, Kurwenal lust listen, friend" "Isn't he awake yet?" "If he were to wake" "It would only be to g0 a wa y forever" "Unless the woman who can heal him gets here first" "She's the only one who can help us now" "Have you seen nothing yet?" "Not even a ship on the sea?" "You would have heard another tune then" "One as cheerful as I can play" "Now tell me honestly, old friend" "What troubles our master?" "Don't ask questions" "You will never understand" "Keep a keen watch" "And when you see a ship just play cheerfully and loud" "The sea is empty and deserted" "That old tune" "Why does it wake me?" "Where am I?" "Oh, that voice, his voice" "Tristan, my master" "My hero, my Tristan" " Who is calling me?" "At last, at last life" "Life, sweet life is restored to my Tristan" "Kurwenal, you" "Where was I?" "Where am I?" "Where are you?" "Safe and free, in peace" "In Kareol, master" "Don't you recognize the castle of your ancestors?" " My ancestors?" " just look around you" "What was it I heard?" "You heard once more the shepherds tune" "Up the hill he's tending your flocks" "My flocks?" "Thafs what I said, sir" "Yours is the house the court and castle" "The people, true to their master" "As best they could they have kept the house and yard" "That long ago my hero bequeathed as heritage to his serfs and vassals" "When he left all behind to g0 to a foreign land" "To what land?" "Why, to Cornwall" "Where bold and blithe all glory, fortune and honor" "Tristan, my hero, nobly commanded" "Am I in Cornwall?" "Why, no, in Kareol" "How did I get here?" "Well, now How did you come?" "You didn't ride on horseback A small ship brought you here" "But I carried you to the ship on my shoulders" "They are broad" "They carried you to the beach" "NowyouTe at home" "At home in your country" "In your own, your native country" "With the pleasures of your own fields" "In the light of the old sun" "Where from death and your wounds" "You will be healed" "Do you think so?" "I know otherwise" "But I cannot explain it to you" "Where I awoke" "I did not stay" "But where I stayed" "I cannot explain" "Isaw no sun" "Neither land nor people" "Yet what I saw" "I can't say" "I was where I have always been" "Where I have always been going" "The spacious realm" "Of world's night" "Only one thing we know there" "Divine, eternal" "Total oblivion" "How did my knowledge of it disappear?" "A reminder of longing shall I cal!" "it?" "It brought me back to the light ofday" "What alone remained in me" "Was an ardent, burning love" "Away from the terrible wonder of death" "It drove me to look on the light" "Which bright, golden and deceptive" "Still shines on you, Isolde" "Isolde is still in the realms ofthe sun" "Isolde is still in the glare of day" "What longing What anxiety" "What yearning to see her" "I have already heard behind me the sound" "As death's door slammed closed" "Now it stands wide open again" "The sun's rays forced it open" "With eyes wide open" "I must break from the night" "To seek her" "To see her, to find her" "Only with her to pass away and to be no more" "Will be granted to Tristan" "Alas, now it grows in me pale and fearful" "The day's wild passion" "Harsh and deceitful its glare rouses my mind" "To deception and madness" "Accursed day, with your brightness" "Will you watch over my pain forever?" "Will this light forever bum" "Which even at night keeps me from her?" "Isolde, sweet beloved" "When finally When, oh, when?" "When will you put out the flame" "And thereby tell me I will be happy?" "When will the light go out?" "When will night come to the house?" "Once I defied her out ofloyalty to you" "But now, like you I can only long for her" "Believe what I say" "You will see her here today" "That comfort I can give you" "If only she is still living" "The light has not yet gone out" "It is not yet night in the house" "Isolde lives and watches" "She has called to me out ofthe night" "If she is alive then let hope smile upon you" "Though Kurwenal may seem simple to you" "Today you will not scold him" "You lay as ifdead since the day the accursed Melot dealt you a wound" "How could that wound be healed?" "Foolish though I am" "It seemed to me that she who once healed Morold's blows for you" "Would easily heal the hurt caused by Melofs sword" "I soon found the best doctor" "I have sent messages to Cornwall" "A loyal man is bringing Isolde here across the sea" "Isolde is coming" "Isolde is near" "What loyalty" "Dear, noble loyalty" "My Kurwenal, beloved friend Unfailingly true" "How can Tristan thank you?" "My shield, my guard in battle and combat" "Always ready beside me injoy and sorrow" "Whoever!" "hate you hate as well" "Whoever!" "love you love as well" "When I truly served good King Mark" "You were truer than gold to him" "When I had to betray my noble lord" "How gladly you too betrayed him" "Ne veryour 0 WI?" "man" "Mine alone" "You suffer with me when I suffer" "Yet what I suffer" "You cannot suffer" "This fearful longing that sears me" "This ravaging burning that consumes me" "If I could describe it and if you could experience it" "You would not linger here" "You would ha ve to rush to the lookout" "Straining with all your senses up there" "Peering and gazing in that direction" "Where her sails are billowing" "Where coming 0n the wind to find me" "Fired by love's impulse" "Isolde is sailing towards me" "The ship comes closer and closer hurrying bravely" "The flag is waving and fluttering at the mast" "The ship!" "The ship!" "It's gliding past the reef" "Don 't you see it?" "Kurwenal, can't you see it?" "No ship is in sight yet" "Is that how I'm to understand you" "You old sad tune" "With your mournful sound?" "Once through the evening air" "You carried fear" "When a child learned of his fathefs death" "Through the gray of morning it came ever more fearful" "As the son learned of his mothefs fate" "He begot me and died" "She, dying, gave birth to me" "The old tune's fearful longing" "Must have called out to them as well" "It asked me once" "And asks me again now" "For what fate was I destined" "That I was born so?" "For what fate?" "The old tune tells me again?" "Longing" "And death" "No, no" "That is not it" "Longing" "To continue longing even in death" "Rather than to die of longing" "That which never dies" "Now Ion gin gly calls for deatffs peace" "To the faraway healer" "When I lay dying in the boat, speechless" "With the wounds poison close to my heart" "The melody cried out in longing lament" "The wind blew the sails toward Ireland's child" "The wound that she healed and closed" "She tore apart again with the sword" "But then she let the sword drop" "She gave me the poison to drink" "But when I hoped to be completely healed" "The most hurtful spell was cast" "That I should never die" "But should be left in eternal torment" "The potion That terrible potion" "How madly it surged from my heart to my brain" "Now no cure not even sweet death" "Can ever free me from the agony oflonging" "Nowhere can I find rest" "Night throws me back to day" "So that the sun can forever feast its eyes on my suffering" "This sun's scorching rays" "How they burn my brain with their torturing heat" "Against the stifling heat of this glow" "There is no cool shelter of shade" "Against the terrible agony of this suffering" "What balm could bring me relief?" "The terrible potion" "Which brought this torture upon me" "I myself brewed it" "From my flvthers distress and my mothers woe" "From love's tears, past and future" "From laughter and weeping Ecstasy and injury" "From all of these I brewed that drink's poison" "What I brewed What flowed through me" "What I enjoyed and drank with delight" "Let it be cursed that dreadful drink" "And a curse upon him who brewed it" "My lord, Tristan What terrible magic" "O love's deceit" "O power of love" "O world's sweetest illusion" "What have you done?" "Here he lies now" "That prodigious man" "Who loved as no other loves" "Now see what toll love has taken 0n him?" "What toll it always takes" "Are you now dead?" "Are you still alive?" "Has the curse carried you off?" "No." "What joy!" "He stirs, he lives" "How gently he moves his lips" "The ship" "Can 't you see it yet?" "The ship?" "Surely it will come today" "It can't delay much longer" "With Isolde on it" "How she waves" "How she drinks to sweet atonement for me" "Do you see her?" "Don't you see her yet?" "How happy, noble and gentle" "She travels over the sea '5 expanse" "On shining waves of beautiful flowers" "She's coming gently carried to the land" "She smiles comfort and sweet repose to me" "She brings me final consolation" "How beautiful you are" "What, Kurwenal?" "Didrft you see her?" "Off to the lookout, you fool" "What I see so plain and clear must not escape you" "Don't you hear me?" "Go quickly to the lookout" "Go to the lookout Areyou at yourpost?" "The ship!" "The ship!" "Isolde's ship" "You must see it You must" "Do you still not see it?" "What joy!" "What delight!" "The ship" "I see it coming from the north" "Didn't I know it?" "Didrft Isay it?" "She still lives and still brings me life" "For me the world holds only Isolde" "How could she have left it already?" "See there how bravely it steers" "How strongly the sail billows How it runs!" "How it flies!" "And the flag?" "The flag of joy bright and cheerful at the mast" "Aha!" "joy!" "In broad daylight Isolde comes to me" " Can you see her there?" " The ship just went behind the rocks" "Behind the reef?" "ls it dangerous?" "The breakers rage there and ships run aground" " Who's guiding the rudder?" " The surest of pilots" "Might he betray me?" "Could he be Melofs ally?" " Trust him as you do me" " Areyou also a traitor, you wretch?" "Can you see her again?" "Not yet" "Lost" "Ahoy!" "Look there!" "It is past, safely past" "Kurwenal" "Truest friend" "All I have and hold" "I give to you this day" "They're coming at full speed" "Can you see her at last?" "Can you see Isolde?" "There she is She's waving" "O most blessed of women" "The ship's in port" "Look, Isolde with one jump leaps from deck to shore" "Come down from the lookout idle gawker" "Down, down to the shore Help her!" "Help my lady" "I'll carry her up Trust my arms" "But you, Tristan" "Trust me and stay in bed" "O this sun" "O this day" "O the joy of this sunniest day" "My blood is racing" "My spirits rejoice joy without measure" "A delirium of joy" "How can I bear it confined to this bed?" "Then up and away where hearts are beating" "Tristan the hero rejoicing in his strength" "Has forced himself away from death" "Once with a bleeding wound" "I fought against Morold" "Today with a bleeding wound" "I will capture Isolde" "Ha, my blood flowjoyfully now" "She will close my wounds forever" "She is coming like a hero She comes to save me" "Let the world pass away as I rush to her injoy" "Tristan, beloved" "What, do I hear the light?" "The torch" "The torch is put out" "To her, to her" "It's me, it's me" "Sweetest friend" "Get up, just once more" "Hear my call" "Isolde is calling" "Isolde has come" "Faithfully to die with Tristan" "Are you still silent?" "One more hour lust one more hour" "Stay awake for me" "Such anxious days" "She waited longingly" "So that for one hour" "She could stay with you" "Has Isolde been cheated?" "Did Tristan cheat her" "Of this one eternally brief" "Final earthly happiness?" "Where are your wounds?" "Let me heal them" "So that, joyful and blessed" "We may share the night" "Don't die from your wounds" "Not from your wounds" "Let us both, united" "Put out the light of life" "His eyes are dimmed" "His heart is still" "Not the slightest stirring of even one breath" "Must she now stand mourning before you" "She who boldly and joyfully crossed the sea to be your bride?" "Too late" "Proud man" "Do you punish me so harshly?" "Have you no compassion for my suffering guilt?" "Are you deaf to my lament?" "lust once more lust one more time" "Listen" "He wakes" "Beloved" "Kurwenal, listen A second ship" "Death and damnation!" "Everyone, lend a hand" "I recognize Mark and Melot" "Bring weapons and stones Help me!" "To the gate!" "Mark is behind me with his followers" "Resistance is useless We are outnumbered" "Stay here and help" "As long as I live" "No one shall intrude upon us here" "Isolde, my lady ls that Brangaene calling?" "What are you looking for here?" "Don't shut me out, Kurwenal Where is Isolde?" "Are you a traitor as well?" "A curse upon you" "Get back, you fool Don 't bar the wa y" "Aha!" "This is the day we meet!" "Die, disgraceful wretch" "Woe is me, Tristan" "Kurwenal, madman Listen, you are mistaken" "Faithless maid" "Forward!" "Follow me Drive them back" "Stop, lunatic Are you out 0f your mind?" "Death rages here" "There is nothing else to win here, King" "If that's what you seek, come on" "Get back, madman" "Isolde" "My lady, I bring happiness" "What do Isee?" "Are you alive, Isolde?" "Treachery and deception" "Tristan, where are you?" "He lies here" "Here, where I lie" "Alas" "Tristan, true one" "Do not scold me" "If your faithful follower" "Comes with you" "Are all dead then?" "Are all dead?" "Tristan, my hero" "Dearest of friends" "Must you betray your friend today as well?" "Even today when he comes to prove his utmost loyalty?" "Awake!" "Awake!" "Awake to my misery" "You faithless, faithful friend" "She's waking She's alive" "Isolde, listen to me" "Hear of my atonement" "I revealed the secret ofthe potion to the king" "With eager haste he set out to sea" "To reach you" "To release you" "And to give you to his friend" "Why, Isolde?" "Why this for me?" "When all that I could not previously understand was revealed to me" "How happy I was that my friend was free of guilt" "Then, to wed you to that dear man" "I sped after you with full sails" "But evil misfortune" "Why must he who brings peace encounter these things?" "I have only increased the toll ofdeath" "My delusion increased the agony" "Can't you hear us?" "Isolde, dearest" "Don't you hear your faithful servant?" "How gently and quietly he smiles" "How tenderly he opens his eyes" "Do you see it, friends?" "Don 't you see?" "How he shines ever more brightly" "Encircled by stars" "Lifting him up" "Don 't you see it?" "How his heart boldly swells" "Full and glorious" "It surges in his breast" "How softly and gently from his lips" "His sweet breath flows" "Look, my friends" "Can't you feel it and see it?" "Do I alone hear this melody" "So wonderful and tender?" "Delightfully lamenting" "All revealing" "Gently pardoning" "Sounding from him" "It flows through me" "And rises up" "Beautifully resounding" "Echoing around me" "Ringing ever more clearly" "Surging all around me" "Are they waves of gentle breezes?" "Are they drafts of sweet fragrance?" "As they surge and wash around me" "Shall I breathe them?" "Shall I listen to them?" "Shall I sip them?" "Or dive beneath them" "And disappear in their sweet scents?" "In the surging swell" "In the ringing sound" "In the world's great breath" "In the flowing all" "To drown?" "To sink" "Unconscious" "Highest bliss"