Wagner, Tristan und Isolde

Sounding more clearly,

wafting around me --                                   

Are these waves of soft airs? 

Are these billows of delightful fragrances?

How they swell,  how they sough around me, shall I breathe?                                    

Shall I listen? Shall I drink, immerse?                                                

Sweetly in fragrances melt away?

In the billowing torrent, in the resonating sound,

All -- in the wafting Universe of the World -- 

Breathe, drown --                                 

Be engulfed --                                                

Unconscious -- 
Supreme delight!

Waltraud Meier performs the "Liebestod" ...