Stussi Monologue from Wilhelm Tell

From Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller

male · contemplative · 57 sec

There goes the cloister bailiff's bridal train Of Morlischachen. A rich fellow he! And has some half score pastures on the Alps. He goes to fetch his bride from Imisee. At Kussnacht there will be high feast to-night-- Come with us--ev'ry honest man is asked. (TELL: A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.) If you've a trouble, dash it from your heart! Take what Heaven sends! The times are heavy now, And we must snatch at pleasure as it flies. Here 'tis a bridal, there a burial. (TELL: And oft the one close on the other treads.) So runs the world we live in. Everywhere Mischance befalls and misery enough. In Glarus there has been a landslip, and A whole side of the Glarnisch has fallen in.

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