The Poet
In the third act,
a recital of a dream,
struk by its beauty
a cobbler poet
finds the song
in a meadow
between F and Nuremberg.
It begins as specticle,
poetry, or music
monstrously sung
and condemned him
as love had prompted.
The old poet discourses,
the guild of mastersingers.
[Original:
A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Kreehbiel]
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