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The Magic Flute
is the great example!
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Tamino's companions
have left him in the dark palace yard,
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outside the temple,
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he cries in despair :
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O eternal night,
when do you end?
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When will light
again touch my eyes?
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The deadly ill Mozart,
knows the intensity of these words.
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And the choir responds :
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Soon,
young man, or never!
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The most beautiful
and troubling music
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ever composed.
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Tamino asks :
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Does Pamina still live?
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The invisible choir responds :
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Pamina still lives!
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Listen to the strange, ingenious
partition of the syllables.
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This is no longer
the name of a young woman,
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it is a magic formula,
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an incantation.
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A naive text, a commanded work,
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And yet the highest
manifestation of art.
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What do you think Mr. Artist?
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Excuse me. I call myself artist,
short of a better word.
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In my creative work,
nothing is evident,
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rather it is a compulsion.
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Without me wanting it, I have
been classified as something "exceptional",