Mother Monologue from Egmont

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

female · melancholic · 47 sec

Thou wouldst always have been happy with him. (Clara: I should have been provided for, and have led a quiet life.) And through thy fault it has all been trifled away. Clara, I am in a strange position. When I think how it has come to pass, I know it, indeed, and I know it not. But I have only to look upon Egmont, and I understand it all; ay, and stranger things would seem natural then. Oh, what a man he is! All the provinces worship him. And in his arms, should I not be the happiest creature in the world?

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