Stiver Monologue from Love's Comedy

From Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen

male · philosophical · 1:04 min

Then let us each our proper path pursue, And part in peace; we shall not hamper you; We keep the road, you hover in the sky, There where we too once floated, she and I. But work, not song, provides our daily bread, And when a man's alive, his music's dead. A young man's life's a lawsuit, and the most Superfluous litigation in existence: Plead where and how you will, your suit is lost. FALK (bold and confident, with a glance at the summer-house). Nay, tho' I took it to the highest place,-- Judgment, I know, would be reversed by grace! I know two hearts can live a life complete, With hope still ardent, and with faith still sweet; You preach the wretched gospel of the hour, That the Ideal is secondary!

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