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Brand Act I · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act I of Brand by Henrik Ibsen Translated by Charles
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  Speaker 1: Harold Hereford 1853-1931 This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Expatriate in Bangor, Maine Act I Persons Represented Brand,
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  Speaker 1: his mother, einar a painter agnes the mayor the doctor
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  Speaker 1: the dean the sexton the schoolmaster gerd a peasant his
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  Speaker 1: young son another peasant a woman another woman a clerk
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  Speaker 1: priests and officials crowd men women and children the tempter
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  Speaker 1: in the desert the invisible choir a voice The action
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  Speaker 1: takes place in our own time at various points around
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  Speaker 1: a fjord hamlet on the west coast of Norway. Brand
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  Speaker 1: Act First High up in the mountain snowfields the mist
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  Speaker 1: lies thick and close. It is raining and nearly dark.
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  Speaker 1: Brand in black with stick and wallet is struggling on westward.
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  Speaker 1: A peasant and his young son who have joined him
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  Speaker 1: are a little way behind. the peasant calling after brand
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  Speaker 1: hello you stranger fellow stay where are you brand here
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  Speaker 1: the peasant you've got a stray the fog's so thick
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  Speaker 1: my sight it passes to see a staff's length fore
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  Speaker 1: or back the son father here's clefts the peasant and
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  Speaker 1: here crevasses brand and not a vestige of the track
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  Speaker 1: the peasant crying out hold man god's death the very
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  Speaker 1: ground is but a shell don't stamp the snow brand
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  Speaker 1: listening i hear the roaring of a fall the peasant
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  Speaker 1: a beck has gnawed its way below here's an abyss
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  Speaker 1: that none can sound twill open and engulf us all
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  Speaker 1: brand as i have said i must go on the
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  Speaker 1: peasant that's past the power of any one i tell
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  Speaker 1: you the ground's a rotten crust hold hold man death
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  Speaker 1: is where it's trod brand a great one gave me
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  Speaker 1: charge i must the peasant what is his name brand
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  Speaker 1: his name is god the peasant and what might you
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  Speaker 1: be pray brand a priest the peasant maybe but one
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  Speaker 1: thing's clear at least though you were dean and bishop
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  Speaker 1: too death will have laid his grip on you ere
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  Speaker 1: daybreak if you dare to breast the glacier's cavern cloven
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  Speaker 1: crest approaching warily and insinuatingly hark priest the wisest learnedest
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  Speaker 1: man cannot do more than what he can turn back
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  Speaker 1: don't be so stiff and stout a man has but
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  Speaker 1: a single life what has he left if that goes
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  Speaker 1: out the nearest farm is two leagues off and for
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  Speaker 1: the fog it's thick enough to hack at with a
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  Speaker 1: hunting knife brand if the fog's thick no glimmering ray
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  Speaker 1: of marsh-light lures our feet astray the peasant all round
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  Speaker 1: lie ice-tarns in a ring and an ice-tarn's an ugly
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  Speaker 1: thing brand we'll walk across the peasant on waves you'll
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  Speaker 1: walk your deeds will hardly match your talk brand yet
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  Speaker 1: one has proved whose faith is sound may walk dry-footed
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  Speaker 1: on the sea the peasant yes men of olden time
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  Speaker 1: maybe but nowadays he'd just be drowned brand going farewell
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  Speaker 1: the peasant you throw your life away if god should
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  Speaker 1: haply need its loss then welcome chasm and flood and
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  Speaker 1: foss the peasant to himself nay but his wits are
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  Speaker 1: gone astray the son half crying come away father see
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  Speaker 1: how black with coming tempest is the rack brand stopping
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  Speaker 1: and approaching again here peasant you at first professed your
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  Speaker 1: daughter by the fjord-side lying had sent you word that
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  Speaker 1: she was dying but could not with a gladsome breast
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  Speaker 1: until she saw you go to rest the peasant that's
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  Speaker 1: certain as i hope for bliss and as her last
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  Speaker 1: day mentioned this the peasant yes brand not a later
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  Speaker 1: the peasant no brand then come the peasant the thing's
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  Speaker 1: impossible turn home brand looking fixedly at him listen would
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  Speaker 1: you give twenty pound if she might have a blest
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  Speaker 1: release the peasant yes parson brand forty the peasant house
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  Speaker 1: and ground i'd very gladly sign away if so she
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  Speaker 1: might expire in peace brand but would you also give
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  Speaker 1: your life the peasant what life my good friend well
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  Speaker 1: the peasant scratching his head nay nay i draw the
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  Speaker 1: line somewhere or other in jesus name remember pray at
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  Speaker 1: home i've children and a wife he whom you mention
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  Speaker 1: had a mother the peasant ay that was in the
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  Speaker 1: times of yore then marvels were of every day such
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  Speaker 1: things don't happen any more brand go home you travel
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  Speaker 1: in death's track you know not god god knows not
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  Speaker 1: you the peasant whew you are stern the son come
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  Speaker 1: back come back the peasant ay ay but he must
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  Speaker 1: follow too must i the peasant ay if i let
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  Speaker 1: you bide up here in this accursed weather and rumour
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  Speaker 1: told what we can't hide that you and we set
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  Speaker 1: out together i'm hauled some morning to the dock and
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  Speaker 1: if you're drowned in flood and fen i'm sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: the bolt and lock brand you suffer in god's service
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  Speaker 1: then The peasant. Nor his nor yours is my affair.
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  Speaker 1: My own is hard enough to bear. Come then. Brand. Farewell.
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  Speaker 1: A hollow roar is heard in the distance. The sun. Shrieking.
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  Speaker 1: An avalanche roar. Brand. To the peasant who has seized
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  Speaker 1: his collar. Off! The peasant. Nay! Brand. This instant! The sun.
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  Speaker 1: Stay no more! The peasant struggling with Brand. Nay! Devil
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  Speaker 1: take me! brand shakes him off and throws him down
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  Speaker 1: in the snow that depend on it he will do
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  Speaker 1: in the end goes the peasant sitting and rubbing his
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  Speaker 1: arm ow ow his arm's an iron rod and that's
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  Speaker 1: what he calls serving god calling as he gets up
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  Speaker 1: ho priest the sun he's gone athwart the hill the
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  Speaker 1: peasant ay but i see him glimmer still calling again
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  Speaker 1: hear me if you remember say where was it that
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  Speaker 1: we lost the way brand in the mist you need
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  Speaker 1: no cross to point you right the broad and beaten
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  Speaker 1: track you tread the peasant god grant it were but
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  Speaker 1: as he said and i'd sit snug at home to-night
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  Speaker 1: he and his son retire eastwards brand reappears higher up
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  Speaker 1: and listens in the direction in which the peasant went
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  Speaker 1: homeward they grovel thou dull thrall if but thy feeble
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  Speaker 1: flesh were all if any spark of living will sprang
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  Speaker 1: in thee i had helped thee still with breaking back
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  Speaker 1: and feet way-worn lightly and swift i had thee borne
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  Speaker 1: but help is idle for the man who nothing wills
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  Speaker 1: but what he can goes further on ah life ah
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  Speaker 1: life why art thou then so passing sweet to mortal
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  Speaker 1: men in every weakling's estimation his own life does as
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  Speaker 1: grossly weigh as if the load of man's salvation upon
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  Speaker 1: his puny shoulders lay for every burden he's prepared god
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  Speaker 1: help us so his life be spared smiles as in
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  Speaker 1: recollection two thoughts in boyhood broke upon me and spasms
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  Speaker 1: of laughter in me woke and from our ancient school-dame
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  Speaker 1: won me many a just and bitter stroke an owl
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  Speaker 1: i fancied scared by night a fish that had the
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  Speaker 1: water-fright i sought to banish them in vain they clung
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  Speaker 1: like leeches to my brain whence rose that laughter in
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  Speaker 1: my mind ah from the gulf dimly divined between the
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  Speaker 1: living world we see and the world as it ought
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  Speaker 1: to be between enduring what we must and murmuring it
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  Speaker 1: is unjust ah whole or sickly great or small such
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  Speaker 1: owls such fishes are we all born to be tenants
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  Speaker 1: of the deep born to be exiles from the sun
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  Speaker 1: this even this does us appal we dash against the
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  Speaker 1: beetling steep our starry vaulted home we shun and crying
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  Speaker 1: to heaven bootless pray for air and the glad flames
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  Speaker 1: of day pauses a moment starts and listens what do
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  Speaker 1: i hear a sound of singing ay blended song and
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  Speaker 1: laughter ringing with now a cheer and now a hallo
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  Speaker 1: another and another follow lo the sun rises the mist
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  Speaker 1: lifts already through the breaking rifts the illimitable heights i
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  Speaker 1: see and now that joyous company stands out against the
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  Speaker 1: morning light upon the summit of the height their shadows
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  Speaker 1: taper to the west farewells are uttered hands are pressed
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  Speaker 1: and now they part the others move eastward away to
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  Speaker 1: westward wind and waving hats and kerchiefs send their farewell
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  Speaker 1: messages of love the sun gradually breaks through and disperses
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  Speaker 1: the mist brand stands and looks down on the two
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  Speaker 1: as they approach how the light glitters round these two
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  Speaker 1: it is as if the mist took flight and flowering
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  Speaker 1: heather clothed the height and heaven laughed round them where
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  Speaker 1: they go brother and sister hand in hand they spring
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  Speaker 1: along the hill together she scarcely stirs the dewy heather
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  Speaker 1: and he is lissom as a wand now she darts
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  Speaker 1: back he rushes after now slips aside eludes his aim
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  Speaker 1: out of their gambols grows a game and hark a
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  Speaker 1: song out of their laughter einar and agnes in light
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  Speaker 1: summer dress both of them warm and glowing come playing
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  Speaker 1: across the level the mist is gone a bright summer
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  Speaker 1: morning lies on the mountains einar agnes my beautiful butterfly
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  Speaker 1: playfully shalt thou be caught i am weaving a net
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  Speaker 1: and its mesh is fine are all of my music
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  Speaker 1: wrought Agnes, dancing backwards and always eluding him. and am
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  Speaker 1: i a butterfly dainty and slight let me sip of
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  Speaker 1: the heather-bell blue and art thou a boy let me
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  Speaker 1: be thy sport but oh not thy captive too einar
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  Speaker 1: agnes my beautiful butterfly i have woven my meshes so
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  Speaker 1: thin and never availeth thy fluttering flight soon art thou
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  Speaker 1: my captive within agnes and am i a butterfly young
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  Speaker 1: and bright full joyously i can play but if in
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  Speaker 1: thy net i a captive lie o touch not my
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  Speaker 1: wings i pray einar nay i will lift thee with
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  Speaker 1: tender hand and lock thee up in my breast and
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  Speaker 1: there thou shalt play thy whole life long at the
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  Speaker 1: game thy heart loves best they have unwittingly approached a
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  Speaker 1: sheer precipice and are now close to the edge brand
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  Speaker 1: calls down to them hold hold you stand by an
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  Speaker 1: abyss einar who calls us agnes pointing up see brand
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  Speaker 1: heed where you go your feet are on the hollow
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  Speaker 1: snow that overhangs a precipice einar clasping her and laughing
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  Speaker 1: up to brand needless for her and me your fears
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  Speaker 1: agnes we have a whole life long to play einar
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  Speaker 1: in sunshine lies our destined way and ends but with
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  Speaker 1: a hundred years brand and then you perish so agnes
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  Speaker 1: no then we fly to heaven and play again einar
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  Speaker 1: a hundred years to revel given each night the bridal
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  Speaker 1: lamps aflame a century of glorious game and then einar
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  Speaker 1: then home again to heaven brand aha so that is
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  Speaker 1: whence you came einar of course how should we not
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  Speaker 1: come thence agnes that is our very latest flight is
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  Speaker 1: from the valley eastward hence brand i think i saw
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  Speaker 1: you on the height einar ay it was there on
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  Speaker 1: those loved faces even but now we looked our last
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  Speaker 1: and with clasped hands kisses embraces sealed all our tender
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  Speaker 1: memories fast come down to us and i will tell
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  Speaker 1: how god's been good beyond compare and you shall all
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  Speaker 1: our gladness share pooh stand not like an icicle come
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  Speaker 1: thaw now there i like you so first i'm a
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  Speaker 1: painter you must know and even this to me was
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  Speaker 1: sweet to lend my fancy wings and feet in colours
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  Speaker 1: to bid life arise as he of grubs breeds butterflies
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  Speaker 1: but god surpassed himself when he my agnes gave me
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  Speaker 1: for my bride i came from travels over sea my
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  Speaker 1: painter's satchel at my side agnes eagerly glad as a
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  Speaker 1: king and fresh and free and knew a thousand songs
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  Speaker 1: beside einar just as the village i passed through she
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  Speaker 1: chanced to dwell an inmate there she longed to taste
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  Speaker 1: the upland air the scented woods the sun the dew
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  Speaker 1: me god into the mountains drew my heart cried out
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  Speaker 1: seek beauty's might in forests dim in rivers bright in
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  Speaker 1: flying clouds beneath the blue then i achieved my height
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  Speaker 1: of art a rosy flush upon her cheek two joyous
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  Speaker 1: eyes that seemed to speak a smile whose music filled
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  Speaker 1: the heart agnes for you though all that art was
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  Speaker 1: vain you drank life's beaker blind and rapt and then
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  Speaker 1: one sunny morn again stood staff in hand and baggage
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  Speaker 1: strapped then suddenly the thought occurred why friend the wooing
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  Speaker 1: is for god hurrah i asked she gave her word
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  Speaker 1: and all was settled on the spot our good old
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  Speaker 1: doctor like a boy was all beside himself with joy
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  Speaker 1: so three whole days and whole nights three held revelry
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  Speaker 1: for her and me mayor and constable clerk and priest
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  Speaker 1: all the grown youth was at the feast last night
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  Speaker 1: we left but not for that the revel or the
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  Speaker 1: banquet ceased with bannered poll and wreathed hat up over
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  Speaker 1: bank on over bray our comrades brought us on our
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  Speaker 1: way agnes the mountain-side we danced along in couples now
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  Speaker 1: and now in groups einar drank luscious wine from silver
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  Speaker 1: stoops agnes awoke the summer night with song einar and
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  Speaker 1: the thick mist before our feet be an obsequious retreat
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  Speaker 1: brand and now your way lies einar to the town
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  Speaker 1: before us agnes to my parents home einar first over
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  Speaker 1: yonder peak then down to the fjord haven in the
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  Speaker 1: west and egir's courser through the foam ride homeward to
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  Speaker 1: the bridal feast so to the sunny south together like
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  Speaker 1: paired swans in their first flight and there einar a
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  Speaker 1: life of summer weather a dream a legend of delight
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  Speaker 1: for on this sabbath morn have we high on the
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  Speaker 1: hills without a priest from fear and sorrow been released
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  Speaker 1: and consecrated to gaiety brand by whom by all the
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  Speaker 1: merry crowd with ringing glasses every cloud was banished that
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  Speaker 1: might dash the leaves too rudely at our cottage eves
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  Speaker 1: out of our speech they put to flight each warning
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  Speaker 1: word of stormy showers and hailed us garlanded with flowers
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  Speaker 1: the true-born children of delight brand going farewell ye two
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  Speaker 1: einar starting and looking more closely at him i pray
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  Speaker 1: you hold something familiar in your face brand coldly i
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  Speaker 1: am a stranger einar yet a trace surely there lingers
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  Speaker 1: of an old friend of my school days school friend's
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  Speaker 1: true but now i am no more a boy einar
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  Speaker 1: can it be cries out suddenly brand it is oh
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  Speaker 1: joy from the first moment i knew you einar well
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  Speaker 1: met a thousand times well met look at me i
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  Speaker 1: the old brand yet still centred on the things within
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  Speaker 1: whom never anyone could win to join our gambols brand
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  Speaker 1: you forget that i was homeless and alone yet you
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  Speaker 1: at least i loved i own you children of the
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  Speaker 1: southern land were fashioned of another clay than i borne
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  Speaker 1: by a rocky strand in shadow of a barren bray
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  Speaker 1: einar your home is here i think brand my way
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  Speaker 1: lies past it einar past what further brand far beyond
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  Speaker 1: beyond my home Einar, you are a priest? Brand, smiling.
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  Speaker 1: A mission preacher, say. I wander like the woodland hare,
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  Speaker 1: and where I am, my home is there. Einar, and
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  Speaker 1: whither is your last resort? Brand, sternly and quickly. Inquire not. Einar, wherefore? Brand,
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  Speaker 1: changing his tone. Ah, then no. The ship that stays
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  Speaker 1: for you below shall bear me also from the port.
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  Speaker 1: einar hurrah my bridal courser true think agnes he is
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  Speaker 1: coming too brand but i am to a burial bound
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  Speaker 1: agnes a burial einar you why who is dead brand
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  Speaker 1: the god who was your god you said agnes shrinking
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  Speaker 1: back come einar einar brand brand with cerements wound the
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  Speaker 1: god of each mechanic slave of each dull drudger shall
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  Speaker 1: be laid by broad day in his open grave end
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  Speaker 1: of the matter must be made and high time is
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  Speaker 1: it you should know he ailed a thousand years ago
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  Speaker 1: einar brand you are ill brand no sound and fresh
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  Speaker 1: as juniper and mountain pine it is our age whose
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  Speaker 1: pining flesh craves burial at these hands of mine ye
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  Speaker 1: will but laugh and love and play a little doctrine
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  Speaker 1: take on trust and all the bitter burden thrust on
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  Speaker 1: one who came ye have been told and from your
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  Speaker 1: shoulders took away your great transgression's manifold he bore for
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  Speaker 1: you the cross the lance ye therefore have full leave
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  Speaker 1: to dance dance then but where your dancing ends is
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  Speaker 1: quite another thing my friends einar ah i perceive the
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  Speaker 1: latest cry that folks are so much taken by you
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  Speaker 1: come of the new brood who hold that life is
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  Speaker 1: only gilded mould and with god's penal fires and flashes
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  Speaker 1: hound all the world to sack and ashes brand no
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  Speaker 1: i am no evangelist i speak not as the church's
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  Speaker 1: priest that i'm a christian even i doubt that i'm
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  Speaker 1: a man though i know well and that i see
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  Speaker 1: the cancer fell that eats our country's marrow out einar
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  Speaker 1: i never heard i must confess our country taxed with
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  Speaker 1: being given to worldly pleasure in excess brand no by
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  Speaker 1: delight no breast is riven were it but so the
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  Speaker 1: ill were less be passion's slave be pleasure's thrall but
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  Speaker 1: be it utterly all in all be not to-day to-morrow
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  Speaker 1: one another when a year is gone be what you
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  Speaker 1: are with all your heart and not by pieces and
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  Speaker 1: in part the bacchants clear defined complete the sot his
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  Speaker 1: sordid counterfeit silenus charms but all his graces the drunkard's
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  Speaker 1: parody debases traverse the land from beach to beach try
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  Speaker 1: every man in heart and soul you'll find he has
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  Speaker 1: no virtue whole but just a little grain of each
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  Speaker 1: a little pious in the pew a little grave his
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  Speaker 1: father's way over the cup a little gay it was
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  Speaker 1: his father's fashion too a little warm when glasses clash
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  Speaker 1: and stormy cheer and song go round for the small
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  Speaker 1: folk rock willed rock bound that never stood the scourge
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  Speaker 1: and lash a little free in promise making and then
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  Speaker 1: when vows and liquor willed must be in mortal stress
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled a little fine in promise breaking yet as i
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  Speaker 1: say all fragments still his faults his merits fragments all
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  Speaker 1: partial in good partial in ill partial in great things
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  Speaker 1: and in small but here's the grief that worst or
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  Speaker 1: best each fragment of him wrecks the rest skoffing's an
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  Speaker 1: easy task it were a nobler policy to spare brand
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  Speaker 1: perhaps if it were wholesome too well well the indictment
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  Speaker 1: i endorse with all my heart but can't divine what
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  Speaker 1: in the world it has to do with him the
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  Speaker 1: god you count a course whom yet i still acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: mine my genial friend your gift is art show me
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  Speaker 1: the god you have averred him you have painted i
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  Speaker 1: have heard and touched the honest people's heart old is
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  Speaker 1: he haply am i right well yes brand of course
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  Speaker 1: and doubtless white hairs straggling on a reverend head a
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  Speaker 1: beard of ice or silver thread kindly yet stern enough
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  Speaker 1: to fright a pack of children in the night i
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  Speaker 1: will not ask you if you're a god with fireside
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  Speaker 1: slippers you have shod but twere a pity without doubt
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  Speaker 1: to leave skull-cap and glasses out einar angrily what do
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  Speaker 1: you mean brand i do not flout just so he
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  Speaker 1: looks in form and face the household idol of our
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  Speaker 1: race as catholics make of the redeemer a baby at
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  Speaker 1: the breast so ye make god a dotard and a
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  Speaker 1: dreamer verging on second infancy and as the pope on
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  Speaker 1: peter's throne calls little but his keys his own so
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  Speaker 1: to the church you would confine the world-wide realm of
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the divine twixt life and doctrine set a sea no
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: wise concern yourselves to be bliss for your souls ye
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: would receive not utterly and wholly live ye need such
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  Speaker 1: feebleness to brook a god who'll through his fingers look
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  Speaker 1: who like yourselves is hoary grown and keeps a cap
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  Speaker 1: for his bald crown mine is another kind of god
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  Speaker 1: mine is a storm where thine's a lull implacable where
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  Speaker 1: thine's a clod all loving there where thine is dull
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  Speaker 1: and he is young like hercules no hoary sipper of
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: life's lees his voice rang through the dazzled night when
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he within the burning wood by moses upon horeb's height
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  Speaker 1: as by a pigmy's pigmy stood in gibeon's vale he
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  Speaker 1: stayed the sun and wonders without end has done and
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  Speaker 1: wonders without end would do were not the age grown
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  Speaker 1: sick like you einar and now the age shall be
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  Speaker 1: made whole brand it shall i say and that as
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: sure as that i came to earth to cure the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: sapping fester of its soul einar ere yet the radiant
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: torchlight blazes throw not the taper to the ground nor
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: blot the antiquated phrases before the great new words be
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: found brand nothing that's new do i demand for everlasting
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: right i stand it is not for a church i
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: cry it is not dogmas i defend day dawned on
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: both and possibly day may on both of them descend
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: what's made has finness for its brand of moth and
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: worm it feels the flaw and then by nature and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: by law is for an embryo thrust aside but there
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  Speaker 1: is one that shall abide the spirit that was never
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: born that in the world's fresh gladsome morn was rescued
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: when it seemed forlorn that built with valiant faith a
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: road whereby from flesh it climbed to god now but
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: in shreds and scraps is dealt the spirit we have
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: faintly felt but from these scraps and from these shreds
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  Speaker 1: these headless hands and handless heads these torso stumps of
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: soul and thought a man complete and whole shall grow
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and god his glorious child shall know his heir the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: adam that he wrought Einar, breaking off. Farewell. I judge
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: that it were best we parted. Brand, you are going west,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I northward, to the fjord from here, two pathways lead,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: both alike near. Farewell. Einar, farewell. Brand, turning round again. Light,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: learn to part from vapour. Know that life's an art.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: einar waving him off go turn the universe upside down
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: still in my ancient god i trust brand good paint
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: his crutches and his crown i go to lay him
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: in the dust disappears over the pass einar goes silently
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to the edge and looks after him agnes stands a
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: moment lost in thought then starts looks about her uneasily
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and asks is the sun set already einar nay a
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: shadowing cloud and now tis past agnes the wind is
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: cold einar only a blast that hurried by here lies
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: our way agnes yon mountain southward sure till now wore
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: not that blackened beetling brow einar thou saw'st it not
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: for game and glee ere with his cry he startled
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: thee let him pursue his toilsome track and we will
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to our gambols back agnes no now i'm weary einar
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and indeed i'm weary too to tell the truth and
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: here our footing asks more heed than on yon upland
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: broad and smooth but once we're on the level plain
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: we'll dance defiantly once more ay in a tenfold wilder
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: vein and tenfold swifter than before see agnes yon blue
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: line that sparkles fresh from the young sun's morning kiss
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and now it dimples and now darkles silver one moment
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: amber this it is the ocean glad and free that
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: in the distance thou dost see and seest thou the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: smoky track in endless line to leeward spread and seest
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: thou the point of black just rounding now the furthest
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: head it is the steamer thine and mine and now
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: it speeds into the fiord then out into the foaming
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: brine to-night with thee and me on board the mists
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: have veiled the mountain brow saw'st thou how vividly but
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: now heaven's image in the water woke agnes looking absently
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: about her oh yes but tell me sawest thou einar
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: what agnes in a hushed voice without looking at him
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: how he towered as he spoke she goes down over
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the path einar follows a path along the crags with
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: a wild valley beyond to the right above and beyond
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the mountain are glimpses of greater heights with peaks and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: snow brand comes up along the path descends stops half-way
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: upon a jutting crag and gazes into the valley yes
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: i know myself once more every boat-house by the shore
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: every home the landslip fall and the inlet's fringe a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: birch and the ancient mouldered church and the river alders
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: all from my boyhood i recall but methinks it all
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: has grown greyer smaller than i knew yon snow cornice
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: hangs more prone than of old it used to do
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: from that scanty heaven encloses yet another strip of blue
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: beetles looms immures imposes steels of light a larger dew
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: sits down and gazes into the distance and the fiord
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: too crouched it then in so drear and deep a
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: den tis a squall a square-rigged skiff scuds before it
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to the land southward shadowed by the cliff i descry
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: a wharf a shed then a farmhouse painted red tis
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the farm beside the strand tis the widow's farm the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: home of my childhood thronging come memories born of memories
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: dead i where yonder breakers roll grew a lonely infant
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: soul like a nightmare on my heart weighs the burden
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of my birth knit to one who walks apart with
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: her spirit set to earth all the high emprise that
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: stirred in me now is veiled and blurred force and
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: valour from me fail heart and soul grow faint and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: frail as i near my home i change to my
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: very self grow strange wake as baffled samson woke shorn
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and fettered tamed and broke looks again down into the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: valley what is stirring down below out of every garth
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: they flow troops of children wives and men and in
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: long lines meet and mingle now among the rocks and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: shingle vanish now emerge again to the ancient church they
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: go rises oh i know you through and through sluggard
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: spirits souls of lead all the lord's prayer said by
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: you is not with such anguish sped by such passion
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: borne on high that one tittle thrills the sky as
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: a ringing human cry save the prayer for daily bread
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that's this people's battle call that's the blazin of them
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: all from its context plucked apart branded deep in every
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: heart there it lies the tempest-tossed wreckage of the faith
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you've lost forth out of this stifling pit vault-like is
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the air of it not a flag may float unfurled
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: in this dead and windless world he is going a
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: stone is thrown from above and rolls down the slope
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: close by him brand calling upward ha who throws stones
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: there a girl of fifteen running along the crest with
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: stones in her apron ho good aim he screams she
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: throws again brand hullo child stop that game Gert. Without
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a hurt he's sitting now and swinging on a windswept bow.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: She throws again and screams. Now fierce as ever he's
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: making for me. Help! Who? With claws he'll rend and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: gore me. Brand. In the Lord's name! Gert. Whist! Who
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: are you? Hold still! Hold still! He's flying! Brand. Who? Gert.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Didn't you see the falcon fly? Brand. Here? No! Gert.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the laidly fowl with crest thwart on its sloping brow
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: depressed and red and yellow circled eye brand which is
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: your way gert to church i go brand then we
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: can go along together gert pointing upward we but the
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: way i'm bound is thither brand pointing downward but yonder
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: is the church you know gert pointing downward with a
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: scornful smile that yonder brand truly come with me gert
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: no jan is ugly brand ugly why gert because it's
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: small brand where did you see a greater gert i
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: could tell you i farewell she turns away upwards lies
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: there that church of yours why that way leads but
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: to the moors gert come with me you i've got
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: to show a church that's built of ice and snow
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: brand of ice and snow i see the truth there
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: amid peak and precipice as i remember from my youth
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: there yawns a cavernous abyss ice church they call the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: place of old and of it many a tale was
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: told a frozen tarn has paved the floor aloft in
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: massy piled blocks the gathered snowdrifts slope and soar arch-like
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: o'er the yawning rocks gerd it seems a mountain cleft
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: ah yes it is a church though none the less
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: brand never go there a sudden gust has often cracked
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: that hollow crust a rifle shot a scream a whoop
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: gerd without listening to him just come and see a
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: reindeer troop gulfed in the fall and never found till
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: spring and the great thaw came round brand yonder is
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: danger go not near it Pointing down. Yonder is foulness.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Thou must fear it. Brand. God's peace be with you. Gert. Nay,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: this way pass. Yonder the cataracts singing mass. There on
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the crags the whistling weather preaches you hot and cold together.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Thither the hawk will ne'er steal in. Down, down he
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: sweeps from spartan. Yonder he sits the ugly block like
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: my church steeple's weathercock. brand wild is thy way and
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: wild thy soul a cittern with a shattered bowl of
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: dulness dulness is the brood but evil's lightly won to
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: good gert with whirring wings i hear him come i'll
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: e'en make shift to geb me home in yonder church
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: i'm safe farewell he's on me how fierce and fell
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: she screams i'll throw a stone no nearer now if
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: thou hast talons i've a bough she runs off up
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the mountain brand after a pause this was a church-goer
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: like the rest mountain or dale church which is best
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: which wildest reel which blindest grope which furthest roam from
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: home and hope light heart who crowned with leafage gay
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: loves by the dizziest verge to play faint heart who
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: marches slack and slow because old want will have it
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: so wild hart who borne on lawless wings sees fairness
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: in the foulest things war front and rear war high
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and low with this fell triple banded foe i see
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: my call it gleams ahead like sunshine through a loophole
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: shed i know my task these demons slain the sick
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: earth shall grow sound again once let them to the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: grave be given the fever fumes of earth shall fly
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: up soul array thee sword from thy to battle for
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the heirs of heaven he descends to the hamlet the