This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...he falls dead in the beloved's arms. The dying eyes look a sad farewell; the lips murmur " Isolde!" and all is over. For Isolde, too, the last hour has come. Almost speechless in the agony of her grief, she collapses in a faint on the body of her lover, imploring him to speak once again. Meanwhile, a second ship ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...he falls dead in the beloved's arms. The dying eyes look a sad farewell; the lips murmur " Isolde!" and all is over. For Isolde, too, the last hour has come. Almost speechless in the agony of her grief, she collapses in a faint on the body of her lover, imploring him to speak once again. Meanwhile, a second ship approaches. On board are King Mark, the traitor Melot, and others. Kurvenal and the shepherd barricade the gateway against the supposed enemy. The gate is stormed, the besiegers enter, and Kurvenal, in a fury of loyalty to his dead master, kills the hateful Melot. Kurvenal himself, in the confusion, receives a fatal wound, and crawls back to his master's feet, there to breathe his last. Brangane steps forward, endeavouring to restore Isolde; assuring her that she has made the King acquainted with the incident of the love-potion, and adding that the King, in unselfish magnanimity, has come, not to fight, but to forgive. His hope had been to see the lovers happily united. But now--" dead together: all are dead." Isolde is not yet actually dead, but the death-song is already on her lips. Rising to her feet, with face transformed as if a glory from heaven shone on it, she sings her "Liebestod," and falls on Tristan's body as if transfigured. So came their hour on them that were in life Tristram and Iseult: so from love and strife The stroke of love's own hand felt last and best Gave them deliverance to perpetual rest.... And these rapt forth perforce from earthly ground, These twain the deep sea guards and girdles round. The two souls, bound together by that chord of human sympathy the most holy and noble--the divine passion, Love--are united in death, and thus realise far more perfectly, and in a far wider sense, all their...
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