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Night deepens. At a sign from Gunther, the men lift the dead, laid upon his shield, to their shoulders, and in solemn procession start upon the rocky path homeward. What is called Siegfried's funeral-march is, as it were, a funeral oration spoken over him by a great voice, of one penetrated with the sense of what he was and of earth's loss in him. "Listen!
I agreed; it would be an opportunity to get rid of my cauliflower bouquet, which I flung viciously into a chair, and off we started. Augustus dances vilely. When he was not bumping me against other valseurs he was treading on my toes a jig or a funeral-march might have been playing instead of a valse, for all the time of it mattered to him.
The logic is so obvious and conclusive that even mother does not press the point when you remind her of it and you are free for a whole day in the attic. Instantly the blessing is manifest the sadness of that day-break drip, drip, drip is healed the whole character of the day is changed, and the rain-melody becomes not a funeral-march but a dance.
And then, in juxtaposition with that, the Waldweben and the Feuerzauber, or the grim and awful tragedy of the Siegfried funeral-march! There were people in this opera-house who knew what such music meant; Thyrsis had read it in their faces, in that suffocating top-gallery.
A sound of music was heard without the house, as if proceeding from a full band of military instruments stationed in the street, playing, not such a festal strain as was suited to the occasion, but a slow funeral-march.
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