The meaning of your kind solicitude.
You eye me as a boy a sallow, good
To cut and play the flute on for a day.
Falk.
Yes, better than to linger in the swamp
Till autumn choke it with her grey mists damp!
[Vehemently.
You must! you shall! To me you must present
What God to you so bountifully lent.
I speak in song what you in dreams have meant.