Atting Monologue from Wilhelm Tell

From Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller

male · inspirational · 45 sec

(raising himself up in great astonishment). And have the peasantry dared such a deed On their own charge, without the nobles' aid-- Relied so much on their own proper strength? Nay then, indeed, they want our help no more; We may go down to death cheer'd by the thought, That after us the majesty of man Will live, and be maintain'd by other hands. (He lays his hand upon the head of the child who is kneeling before him.) From this boy's head, whereon the apple lay, Your new and better liberty shall spring; The old is crumbling down--the times are changing-- And from the ruins blooms a fairer life.

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