forest-splendour

Updated: May 28, 2025

Walther answers unhesitatingly: "All that winter-night and forest-splendour, that book and grove have taught me; all that the magic of poetry has secretly revealed to me; all that I have gathered, a thoughtful listener, from ride to battle or from dance in gay assembly, all this, in the present hour, when the highest prize of life may be purchased by a song, is what must necessarily flow into my song, original in word and note, is what must be outpoured before you, masters, if I succeed, as a master-song!"

Gertrude Hall Brownell - The Wagnerian Romances