1. The Problem of Faust
GA 273/1916-09-30/p018
·1916-09-30
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> “I too have had my whimsies and my fancies,” (says Wagner)
> “But no such freaks as that by any chances.
> On woods and fields I soon have looked my fill.
> I never shall begrudge the bird his pinion.”
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