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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418716" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rinaldo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the strand! quick, mount the bark!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If no favouring zephyrs blow,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ply the oar and nimbly row,<br>And with zeal your prowess mark!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'er the sea we thus career.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">RINALDO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Oh, let me linger one short moment here!<br>'Tis heaven's decree, I may not hence away.<br>The rugged cliffs, the wood-encircled bay,<br>Hold me a prisoner, and my flight delay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye were so fair, but now that dream is o'er;<br>The charms of earth, the charms of heaven are nought.<br>What keeps me in this spot so terror-fraught?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My only joy is fled for evermore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me taste those days so sweet,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heav'n-descended, once again!<br>Heart, dear heart! ay, warmly beat!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Spirit true, recall those days</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Freeborn breath thy gentle lays</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mingled are with joy and pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Round the beds, so richly gleaming,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rises up a palace fair;<br>All with rosy fragrance teeming,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As in dream thou saw'st it ne'er.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this spacious garden round,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far extend the galleries;<br>Roses blossom near the ground,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">High in air, too, bloom the trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wat'ry flakes and jets are falling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet and silv'ry strains arise;<br>While the turtle-dove is calling,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the nightingale replies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gently come! feel no alarm,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a noble duty bent;<br>Vanish'd now is ev'ry charm</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That by magic power was lent.<br>Friendly words and greetings calm<br>On his wounds will pour soft balm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fill his mind with sweet content.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">RINALDO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark! the turtle-dove is calling,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the nightingale replies;<br>Wat'ry flakes and jets are falling,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mingling with their melodies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But all of them say:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her only we mean;<br>But all fly away,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As soon as she's seen,--<br>The beauteous young maiden,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With graces so rife,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then lily and rose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In wreaths are entwining;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In dancing combining,<br>Each zephyr that blows</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its brother is greeting,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All flying and meeting,<br>With balsam full laden,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When waken'd to life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No! no longer may we wait;<br>Rouse him from his vision straight!<br>Show the adamantine shield!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">RINALDO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Woe! what form is here reveal'd!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twill disclose the cheat to thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">RINALDO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Am I doom'd myself to see<br>Thus degraded evermore?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Courage take, and all is o'er.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">RINALDO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be it so! I'll take fresh heart,<br>From the spot beloved depart,<br>Leave Armida once again,--<br>Come then! here no more remain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, 'tis well! no more remain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SEMI-CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away then! let's fly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'er the zephyr-kiss'd ocean!<br>The soul-lighted eye</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sees armies in motion,<br>See proud banners wave</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'er the dust-sprinkled course.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From his forefathers brave</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Draws the hero new force.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">RINALDO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With sorrow laden,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within this valley's</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All-silent alleys<br>The fairest maiden</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again I see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twice can this be?<br>What! shall I hear it,<br>And not have spirit<br>To ease her pains?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unworthy chains?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">RINALDO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now I've see her,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! how changed!<br>With cold demeanour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And looks estranged,<br>With ghostly tread,--<br>All hope is fled,<br>Yes, fled for ever.<br>The lightnings quiver,<br>Each palace falls;<br>The godlike halls,<br>Each joyous hour<br>Of spirit-power,<br>With love's sweet day<br>All fade away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, fade away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SEMI-CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Already are heard</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The prayers of the pious.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why longer deny us?<br>The favouring zephyr</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forbids all delay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away, then! away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">RINALDO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With heart sadly stirr'd,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your command I receive;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye force me to leave.<br>Unkind is the zephyr,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, wherefore not stay?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away, then! away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a><div class=q>
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To the strand! quick, mount the bark!

If no favouring zephyrs blow,

Ply the oar and nimbly row,
And with zeal your prowess mark!

O'er the sea we thus career.

RINALDO.


Oh, let me linger one short moment here!
'Tis heaven's decree, I ..."></div>
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