Frisch weht der Wind der Hei-mat zu: mein i-risch Kind, wo wei-lest du?
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This same phrase gracefully undulates through Brangäne’s reply to Isolde’s question as to the vessel’s course, changes entirely in character, and surges savagely around her wild outburst of anger when she is told that the vessel is nearing Cornwall’s shore, and breaks itself in savage fury against her despairing 274 wrath when she invokes the elements to destroy the ship and all upon it. Examples like these occur many times in the scores of Wagner’s music-dramas.
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