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Pierrot Lunaire Arnold Schoenberg
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I. Moonstruck The wine that one drinks with the eyes Pours nightly from the moon in waves.
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And a spring flood overflows The silent horizon.
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Desires, thrilling and sweet Swim numberless in the flood.
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The wine that one drinks with the eyes Spills nightly from the moon in waves.
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The poet, urged on by his devotions Is drunk on the holy beverage,
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Ecstatic, he turns toward heaven Headlong staggers, 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, White wonder-roses
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Bloom in July evenings-- Oh, if I coul d pluck just one!
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To ease my anxious suffering I seek along dark streams
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Moonlight ’ s pale blossoms, White wonder-roses.
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All my longing would be stilled If I could, like in a secret fairy tale,
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So blissfully softly, scatter On your brown hair
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Moonlight ’ s pale blossoms.
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III. The Dandy With a fantastic light beam The moon lights the crystal bottles
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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 water laughs bright, metallic
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With a fantastic light beam The moon lights the crystal bottles
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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 in the noble style
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With a fantastic moonbeam.
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IV. A Pale Washer Woman
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A pale washer woman Washes nighttime ’ s faded clothes
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Naked, silver white arms Stretch down into the flood.
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Winds creep through the clearing Gently ruffling the stream.
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A pale washer woman Washes nighttime ’ s faded clothes.
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And the gentle maid of heaven Flattered tenderly by twigs
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Spreads across the dark meadows Her linen woven of light--
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A pale washer woman.
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V. Chopin’s Waltz
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Like a pallid drop of blood Dyes a sick man ’ s lips,
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So there rests in these notes A charm that craves annihilation.
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Chords of wild pleasure disturb Despair ’ s icy dream--
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Like a pallid drop of blood Dyes a sick man ’ s lips.
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Hot and exultant, sweet and languishing Melancholy somber waltzes,
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I can’t get you out of my head! You stick to my thoughts
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Like a pallid drop of blood.
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VI. Madonna Stand, o mother of all sorrows On the altar of my verses!
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Blood from your empty breasts The sword ’ s fury has spilled.
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Your eternally fresh wounds Are like eyes, red and open.
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Stand, o mother of all sorrows On the altar of my verses!
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In your emaciated hands You hold your son ’ s corpse
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To show to all mankind-- But the gaze of men looks away from
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You, o mother of all sorrows.
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VII. The Sick Moon
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You gloomy, deathsick moon there on the sky ’ s black pillow,
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Your gaze, gross with fever Enchants me like a strange melody.
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Of insatiable love-sorrow You die. Of longing, buried deep.
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You gloomy deathsick moon There on the sky ’ s black pillow.
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The lover, who in ecstasy Skips, carefree to his beloved,
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Is amused by your beams ’ play-- Your pale, pain-borne blood,
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You gloomy deathsick moon.
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VIII. Night
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Dark, black giant moths Killed the brightness of the sun.
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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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Dark, black giant moths Killed the brightness of the sun.
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And from the sky earthwards Sinking on heavy wings
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Invisible monsters Descend into human hearts
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Dark, black giant moths.
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IX. Prayer to Pierrot
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Pierrot! My laughter - I ’ ve forgotten it!
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Splendour ’ s image Dissolved - dissolved!
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A black flag flaps At me now from the mast.
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Pierrot! My laughter I ’ ve forgotten it!
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Give me again, Veterinarian of the soul,
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Snowman of lyric, Duke of the moon,
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Pierrot--my laughter!
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X. Theft
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Red, princely rubies, Bloody drops of ancient glory,
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Sleep in the coffins Down in the grave vaults.
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Nights, with his drinking buddies Pierrot descends--to rob
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Red, princely rubies Bloody drops of ancient glory.
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But –there --their hair stands on end Pale fear freezes them in place:
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Through the shadows--like eyes-- Stare from the caskets
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Red, princely rubies.
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XI. Red Mass For a hideous Communion, By the dazzling gleam of gold,
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By flickering candlelight, Approaching the altar - Pierrot!
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His hand, the annointed, Rips up the priestly vestments
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For a hideous Communion By the dazzling gleam of gold.
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With a gesture of benediction He shows the terrified souls
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The dripping red Host: His heart--in bloody fingers--
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For a hideous Communion.
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XII. Gallows Song The withered whore With stringy neck Will be his last Lover. In his brains Stuck like a nail
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The withered whore With stringy neck. Skinny as a pine tree, On her neck a little braid— Lustfully will she Hug the rogue ’ s neck, The withered whore!
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XIII. Beheading
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The moon, a shining scimitar On a black silk cushion,
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Ghastly huge--it slices down Through the sorrow-dark night.
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Pierrot stumbles about And stares up in deathly fear
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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 collapses in a faint.
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He thinks 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 On which the poet mutely bleeds,
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Stricken blind by the vultures, Flapping swarm of ghosts!
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In their corpses swords have reveled On parade in bloody scarlet!
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Holy crosses are the verses On which the poet mutely bleeds.
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Dead the head--stiff the ringlets-- Far the scattered noise of rabble.
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Slowly the sun sets, A red king ’ s crown.--
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Holy crosses are the verses!
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XV. Homesick
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Sweetly plaintive--a crystal sighing From an old Italian pantomime,
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Tinkles to us: how Pierrot ’ s become So wooden, so fashionably 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 his dreamy faces! By the moon ’ s faint firelight,
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By the light sea ’ s flood--longing strays Bravely upwards, to its native sky
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Sweetly plaintive--a crystal sighing.
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XVI. Mean Trick! In Cassander ’ s shiny skull While his cries shriek through the air,
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Pierrot, the hypocrite, bores Tenderly,--with a drill!
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Then he tamps down with his thumb His genuine Turkish tobacco
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In Cassander ’ s shiny 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 shiny skull.
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XVII. Parody
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Knitting needles, bright and gleaming, In her gray hair,
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The granny 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 tease Imitates with his rays--
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Knitting needles, bright and gleaming.
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XVIII. The Moonspot A white spot from the bright moon On the back of his black coat,
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Thus Pierrot walks in mild evening Searching for luck and adventure.
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Suddenly he feels something on his suit, He looks himself over and finds sure enough--
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A 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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A white spot from the bright moon.
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XIX. Serenade
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With a grotesque giant bow Pierrot scrapes on his viola,
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Like the stork on one leg, He sadly plucks a pizzicato.
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Suddenly Cassander appears--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-- Dreamily he plays on the bald head
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With a grotesque giant bow.
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XX. Journey Home
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The moonbeam is the rudder, A water lily serves as boat:
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So Pierrot sails south Wafted by a fair wind.
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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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Gently gleams in the east The green daybreak.
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--The moonbeam is the rudder.
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XXI. O Ancient Fragrance O ancient fragrance from fairy tales, Ravish my senses again!
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A crazy swarm of tricks 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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O ancient fragrance from fairy tales Ravish me again:
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All my ill humor I release, Out my sun-framed window
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I see the clear and lovely world And my dreams travel blissful distances...
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O ancient fragrance from fairy tales!
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