Falk Monologue from Love's Comedy

From Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen

male · philosophical · 51 sec

Why there, you see then! STIVER (firmly). Yes, but all the same,-- I must reject all pleas in such a cause. Staunch comrades we have been in times of dearth; Of life's disport she asks but little share, And I'm a homely fellow, long aware God made me for the ledger and the hearth. Let others emulate the eagle's flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright. What does his Excellency Goethe say About the white and shining milky way? Man may not there the milk of fortune skim, Nor is the butter of it meant for him.

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