Der Wald: Scene 9

Oh, now is the hour

Oh, slave who dares my favours to scorn, to flout me behold

I will scourge they pride

Bow, insolent hind, thy neck

Here shalt thou sue for mercy

And she, the foolish maid, whose feeble hands hold him back

Shall kneel, shall grovel here in the dust

Save him

They lead him to death

Oh, lady have mercy

Save him

Ah me, well a-day

Perchance twas unwise to refuse my favours

You Iolanthe had pleaded his cause, nor pleaded in vain

But maybe my power may protect him even now

All yet may be well

My steed, I would be gone

If in wiser humbler mood you repent, and fain would serve me

Then follow me

Do her will, thwart her not, go with her

Love, you bid me leave you, obey the accursed of God?

Brave not her anger, bid me farewell and go

For ah, if I bid you stay, woe is me

My love will be slain

Be slain by me, be slain, alas

How can I bear it? Go, go or you are lost beloved

Röschen, would you bid me, forget betray you?

Our life is a shadow that passes, but love is mighty and deathless

Oh joy, oh pain, nor danger nor death can part us

Nor danger nor death can part us now

Behold, I wait

I wait for you

You wait in vain

If this be thy council, proud maid, his blood be on thy head

Follow me or die

My life, you offer me

My faith, my love the price

Then take my life, thou damned witch

Thus I thank thee, thus I defy thee

Scorn, abhor thee

Strike home and hell take thy soul

Enough thou base-born slave, then die

Sharp are your knives and broad his breast

Who defies me beware

To horse, to horse

Love has the victory

Love and death

Love and death

Sacred forest, take thine own