Identifier: mastersingersofn00huck (find matches)
Title: The master-singers of Nuremberg
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Huckel, Oliver, 1864-1940 Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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Publisher: New York : T. Y. Crowell
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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right! The troubles in the sole!Just wait a moment and I 11 make it right.Now stand just so, and 111 undo the shoe;A moment on the last, and peace is yours.So gently he drew off the dainty shoe,And while with sly pretence he made it right,Seeming oblivious of all else the while,She stood in modest silence, face aglow,With loving looks at Walter in the doorway.As Hans Sachs worked he spake with happy jestOf his hard life of ceaseless toil and moil,Except when helper of some love-lorn maiden:Always a-cobbling, that is just my fate;Both night and day, I hammer at my work.Hark ye, my child, I Ve often thought of it:How could I bring my cobbling to an end?The best way is the Tournament to-day:Perhaps as poet I would win some fame!Come, now, reply! You do not seem to speak,Yett was yourself made me think of it!All right. I hear you say, —Stick to your last!Forsooth I would that some one sang for us.I heard to-day a song most wonderful, —It only lacked the third and fairest Strophe. 106
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THE FOOT OF THE FAIREST IN NUREMBERG Still standing in the doorway, Walter gazed ^f)e In Evas eyes, and finding there a light <$)&$ttt< Of answering love, he broke forth into song, Ssftnit The final Strophe of his Master-lay: ^un» ♦J^iHE stars so bright in their dance ofVJL delight Lingered there on the radiant hairOf that wondrous maiden with beauty laden In a circlet of light, all star bedight. And still to my eyes woke new surprise,For the light of day showed two-fold ray,Two rare transcendent suns, resplendent, In her heavenly eyes I saw arise. Her beauty so rare, in that radiant air,Star-crowned and bright with the mystic light,Was wonderful vision, dream Elysian, And O bliss divine! Her heart was mine! Thus grace directed and fame elected,She crowned me with joy, and love confessed.In my poets breast throbbed the joys of theblest, In Loves sweet Dream! Still busy at his work, the good Hans SachsBrought back the shoe as Walter sang his song,And as he fitted Evas dain

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