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Pierrot Lunaire Arnold Schoenberg
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I. Moonstruck The wine that one drinks with the eyes The moon spills nights into the waves.
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And a spring flood overflows The still horizon.
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Desires, visible and sweet Countless swim across the flood.
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The wine that one drinks with the eyes The moon spills nights into the waves.
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The poet, who practices devotion Enrapts himself on the holy drink,
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He turns against the sky ecstatic Headlong reeling sucks and slurps
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The wine, that one drinks with the eyes.
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II. Colombine Moonlight’s pale blossoms, The white wonder-roses
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Bloom in July evenings-- O I’d pluck just one.
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To ease anxious suffering I search on dark streams
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Moonlight’s pale blossoms, The white wonder-roses.
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All my longing would be stilled If I might, fabled, stalk
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Slightly tipsy--strew petals In your brown hair (of)
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Moonlight’s pale blossoms.
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III. The Dandy With one phantastical light beam The moon lights the crystal flaconsl
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On the black, high holy washstand Of the silent dandy from Bergamo.
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In a resonant bronze basin The fountain laughs light, metal clangs
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With one phantastical light beam The moon lights the crystal flaconsl
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Pierrot of the waxen countenance Stands musing and thinks: how shall he make-up today
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Shoves aside the rouge and the Orient green And paints his face--sublime style
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With one phantastical moonbeam.
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IV. A Faded Laundress A faded laundress Washes nighttime’s pale clothes
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Naked, silver white arms She stretches down into the flood.
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Through the clearing creeping winds Slightly agitate the stream.
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A faded laundress Washes nighttime’s pale clothes.
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And the calm maid of the sky By twigs tenderly flattered
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Spreads across the dark meadows Her light-woven linen--
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A faded laundress.
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V. Valse de Chopin Like a pallid drop of blood Colors a sick man’s lips,
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So reposes in these tones A charm seeking annihilation.
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Wild air’s accords disorder Despair’s glacial dream--
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Like a pallid drop of blood Colors a sick man’s lips.
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Hot and and jocund, sweet and tasty Melancholic dusty waltzes,
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Never come into my senses! Hasten me on my conception
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Like a pallid drop of blood.
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VI. Madonna Rise, o mother of all sorrows On the altar of my verses!
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Blood from your meager breasts The sword’s anger has spilled.
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Your eternally fresh wounds Resemble eyes, red and open.
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Rise, o mother of all sorrows On the altar of my verses!
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In emaciated hands You hold your son’s corpse
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To show to all mankind-- But the gaze of men shuns
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You, o mother of all sorrows.
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VII. The Sick Moon You nocturnal deathsick moon there on the sky’s black pillow,
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Your gaze, gross with fever Enchants me like alien melody.
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On insatiable love’s body You die, of longing, buried deep.
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You nocturnal deathsick moon There on the sky’s black pillow.
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The beloved, who in senses’ riot Thoughtless creeps to the beloved,
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Is amused by your beams’ play-- Your pale, pain-borne blood,
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You nocturnal deathsick moon.
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VIII. Night Obscure, black giant moths Killed the sun’s splendour.
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A closed book of spells, The horizon settles--hushed.
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From the mists of lost depths Wafts a scent--remembrance murdered!
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Obscure, black giant moths Killed the sun’s splendour.
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And from the sky earthwards Sinking on heavy wings
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Unseeable the monsters (glide) Down into the human...
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Obscure, black giant moths.
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IX. Prayer to Pierrot Pierrot! My laughter I’ve unlearned!
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Splendour’s image Dispersed--dispersed!
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Black the flag flaps At me now from the mast.
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Pierrot! My laughter I’ve unlearned!
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Give me again, Vet of the soul,
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Snowman of lyric, Highness of the moon,
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Pierrot--my laughter!
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X. Theft Red, princely rubies, Bloody drops of old fame,
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Sleep in the deads’ caskets Below in the grave vaults.
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Nights, with his cronies Pierrot descends--to rob
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Red, princely rubies Bloody drops of old fame.
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But there--their hair on end Pale fear charms them to the spot:
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Through the gloom--like eyes-- Stare from the deads’ caskets
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Red, princely rubies.
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XI. Red Mass For a terrible Last Supper, By the murk gleam of gold,
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By flickering candlelight, Near the altar--Pierrot!
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His hand, the annointed, Rips up the priest’s vestments
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For a terrible Last Supper By the murk gleam of gold.
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With consecrated bearing He shows the anxious souls
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The dripping red Host: His heart--in bloodied fingers--
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For a terrible Last Supper.
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XII. Gallows Song The withered whore With stringy neck
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Will be his last Beloved.
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In his brains Stuck like a nail
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The withered whore With stringy neck.
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Slim, like the stonepine, On her neck a small tuft--
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Lustfully will she circle the rogue’s neck,
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The withered whole!
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XIII. Beheading The moon, a shining scimitar On a black silk cushion,
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Ghastly huge--it slices down Through the pained dark night.
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Pierrot stumbles about with rest And stares up in fear of death
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At the moon, a shining scimitar On a black silk cushion.
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His knees chatter under him, Swooning he headlong collapses.
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He fancies: he hears whizzing punitive down On his sinner’s neck slicing.
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The moon, a shining scimitar.
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XIV. The Crosses Holy crosses are the verses That the poet mutely bleeds for,
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Stricken blind by the vulture Flapping swarm of ghosts!
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Swords gorged upon corpses On parade in blood scarlet!
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Holy crosses are the verses That the poet mutely bleeds for.
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Dead the head--stiff the ringlets-- Far the scattered noise of rabble.
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Slowly the sun sinks below, A red king’s crown.--
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Holy crosses are the verses!
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XV. Homesick Sweetly plaintive--a crystal sighing From an old Italian pantomime,
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Tinkles over: how Pierrot’s become so Wooden, so modern sentimental.
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And it chimes through his heart’s desert, Chimes subdued through his senses again,
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Sweetly plaintive--a crystal sighing From an old Italian pantomime,
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So Pierrot forgets the dream faces! By the moon’s faint firelight,
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By the light sea’s flood--longing strays Brave upwards, up to the home sky
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Sweetly plaintive--a crystal sighing.
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XVI. Mean Trick! In Cassander’s polished skull While his cries shriek through the air!
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Pierrot, the hypocrite, bores Tenderly,--with a trepan!
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Then he tamps down with his thumbs His genuine Turkish tobacco
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In Cassander’s polish skull While his cries shriek through the air!
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Then he twists a perfumed cherry pipestem Into the glossy baldspot
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And comfortably smokes and puffs on His genuine Turkish tobacco
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In Cassander’s polished skull.
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XVII. Parody Knitting needles, bright and gleaming, In her gray hair,
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The duenna sits muttering, There in a small red dress.
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She waits in the arbor, She loves Pierrot painfully,
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Knitting needles, bright and gleaming In her gray hair.
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Then suddenly--hark!--a whisper! A wind breath giggles softly:
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The moon, that nasty mocker Apes her with his rays--
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Knitting needles, bright and gleaming.
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XVIII. The Moonspot One white spot from the bright moon On the back of his black coat,
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So Pierrot walks in mild evening Searching for luck and adventure.
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Instantly he’s troubled by something on his suit, He looks himself over and finds sure enough--
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One white spot from the bright moon On the back of his black coat.
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Wait! He thinks: that’s a spot of plaster! Wipes and wipes, but--can’t get it out!
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And so he goes, swollen with fury, farther, Rubs and rubs until early morning--
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One white spot from the bright moon.
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XIX. Serenade With a grotesque giant bow Pierrot scrapes on his viola,
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Like the stork on one leg, He dully plucks a pizzicato.
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Suddenly Cassander comes--frenzied By the nocturne virtuoso--
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With a grotesque giant bow Pierrot saws on his viola.
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Fast he throws down the viola: With his delicate left hand
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He grasps the bald head by the collar-- Dreaming he plays on the baldspot
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With a grotesque giant bow.
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XX. Journey Home The moonbeam is the rudder, A water lily serves as boat:
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So Pierrot sails toward the south With a fair wind for his passage.
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The stream hums deep scales And rocks the light dory.
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The moonbeam is the rudder, A water lily serves as boat.
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To Bergamo, his homeland, Pierrot now returns;
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Weak gleams in the east The green horizon.
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--The moonbeam is the rudder.
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XXI. O Old Perfume Old perfume from fabled times, Ravish again my senses!
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A crazy swarm of vagaries Buzzes through the easy air.
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A happy impulse brings me to Those joys I’ve long looked down on:
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Old perfume from fabled times Ravish me again:
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All my ill humor I let slide, Out my sun-framed window
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I see the clear and lovely world And dream beyond for blissful stretches...
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O Old perfume--from fabled times!
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