"Yea, Eros shakes my soul, yea, Eros,
A wind on the mountain falling on the oaks."
This leads directly into a climactic outburst for full orchestra, on a theme borrowed from the sixth Fragment:
"Dare I to love thee?"
A languishing passage follows (strings, wood-wind, and horns), taken from the setting of the words (in the sixth Fragment):
"Sight have I none, nor hearing, cold dew bathes me,
Paler than grass I am, and in my madness
Seem as one dead."
There is a brief crescendo, then the conclusion, of gradually subsiding intensity. The music is almost note for note that of the seventh Fragment:
"Delicate Adonis is dying; what shall we do?
Beat your breasts, maidens, and rend your tunics!
Ah, for Adonis!
The Dawn shall see thee no more,
Nor dark-eyed Sleep, the daughter of Night,
Ah, for Adonis!" [10]
FOOTNOTES:
[3] Without opus number. The score was published in 1903.