Pause Monologue from A Play in VerseBy Hugo Von HofmannsthalTranslated from the German

From A Play in VerseBy Hugo Von HofmannsthalTranslated from the German by Harriet Betty Boas.

any · anguished · 52 sec

They do not come— Oh, no, they do not come—They're shuffling steps, They shuffle down the vineyard—now they reel— There are the steps! A drunkard, verily! Stay in the street, intoxicated one. What would you do within our garden gates?— No moon shines here to-night—were there a moon I were not here—no, no, I were not here. The little stars are flick'ring restlessly, They cannot light the way for a drunken one, But one not drunken from a musty wine. His footsteps are as light as wind on grass And surer than the tread of the young lion.

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