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’Tis a strange infatuation which Kann meinem Blick Theilnahme ich verwehren? Why should I not feel sympathy? Und die Ballade, heut noch sangst Du sie! And the song you love to sing. Ich bin ein Kind und weiss nicht was ich singe. . . ! Erik, sag’! fürchtest Du ein Lied, ein Bild? Child am I, and know not what I sing. Say, Erik, dost a song thou fear, a picture?
During the confusion which ensues upon this avowal, the father’s arrival is announced. In the time intervening between this announcement and Daland’s arrival, Erik, Senta’s lover, pleads for his love, and endeavors to persuade Senta that her infatuation for a phantom lover will lead to her irretrievable ruin; but to no avail. Daland arrives and presents the “Flying Dutchman” to his daughter.