Wallenstein's Death (World Classics) by Friedrich Schiller

Author:Friedrich Schiller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, novel, book, bestseller, top10, interactive media, urban romantics
Publisher: Sovereign Classic
Published: 2017-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

WALLENSTEIN.

What! Think you then at length in late old age

To enjoy the fruits of toil? Believe it not.

Never, no never, will you see the end

Of the contest! you and me, and all of us,

This war will swallow up! War, war, not peace,

Is Austria’s wish; and therefore, because I

Endeavored after peace, therefore I fall.

For what cares Austria how long the war

Wears out the armies and lays waste the world!

She will but wax and grow amid the ruin

And still win new domains.

[The CUIRASSIERS express agitation by their gestures.

Ye’re moved—I see

A noble rage flash from your eyes, ye warriors!

Oh, that my spirit might possess you now

Daring as once it led you to the battle

Ye would stand by me with your veteran arms,

Protect me in my rights; and this is noble!

But think not that you can accomplish it,

Your scanty number! to no purpose will you

Have sacrificed you for your general.

[Confidentially.

No! let us tread securely, seek for friends;

The Swedes have proffered us assistance, let us

Wear for a while the appearance of good-will,

And use them for your profit, till we both

Carry the fate of Europe in our hands,

And from our camp to the glad jubilant world

Lead peace forth with the garland on her head!

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