Stussi Monologue from Wilhelm Tell

From Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller

male · philosophical · 58 sec

There goes the bridal party of the steward Of Moerlischachen's cloister. He is rich! And has some ten good pastures on the Alps. He goes to fetch his bride from Imisee, There will be revelry to-night at Kuessnacht. Come with us--every honest man's invited. (TELL: A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.) If grief oppress you, dash it from your heart! Bear with your lot. The times are heavy now, And we must snatch at pleasure while we can. Here 'tis a bridal, there a burial. (TELL: And oft the one treads close upon the other.) So runs the world at present. Everywhere We meet with woe and misery enough. There's been a slide of earth in Glarus, and A whole side of the Glaernisch has fallen in.

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