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Tannhäuser (1902), PDF p. 7

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DEDICATION I SHALL not tell thee that I love thee ! Nay ! by the Star in Heaven burning, Its ray to me at midnight turning To tell me that it beams above thee — Nay ! though thou wert, as I am, yearning, I should not tell thee that I love thee ! I know what secret thought once blossomed Into a blush that seemed a kiss, Some swift suppressed extreme of bliss In thy most fearful sigh embosomed. What oracle should prate of this ? I know the secret thought that blossomed ! Extol the truth of love's disdain ! Love, daring by no glance to gladden A heart that waits but that to madden 5
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