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He said, “and you might look to me for strength,
If I were a magician and a wizard,
To vanquish the invincible. Destruction
Of such a sort as one here among hundreds
Might wreak upon himself would be a pastime,
If ruin of him would make you free again
Without him.”

Isolt said, as if a“I would not be free without him,”
Isolt said, as if angry: “And you know
That I should not be free if I were free
Without him. Say no more about destruction
Till we see more, who are not yet destroyed.
O God, if only one of us had spoken—
When there was all that time!”

If only I had spoken,” Tristram s“You mean by that,
If only I had spoken,” Tristram said;
And he could say no more till her quick lips
That clung to his again would let him speak.
“You mean, if only I had been awake
In paradise, instead of asleep there,
No jealous angel with a burning sword

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