"The Burial of the Dead" Annotations
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''Mein Irisch Kind,'' | ''Mein Irisch Kind,'' | ||
''Wo weilest du?'' | ''Wo weilest du?'' | ||
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| + | '''Translation''' | ||
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| + | ::::::::Fresh blows the wind | ||
| + | ::::::::To my homeland | ||
| + | ::::::::My Irish child | ||
| + | ::::::::Where are you tarrying? | ||
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| + | This comes from the Wagner opera ''Tristan and Isolde'' (1865). A sailor sings a song about an Irish woman left behind, as they sail Isolde from Cornwall to Ireland to marry King Mark. This is also a foreshadowing of Isolde's failure later in the opera to come to Tristan's aid, when he dies waiting for her to come and magically heal him. | ||
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