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The Death of Wallenstein

A Tregedy in Five Acts
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
  
THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN
  
PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR TO THE FIRST EDITION
  
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ACT I
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Scene VI

Thekla.
His spirit 'tis that calls me: 'tis the troop
Of his true followers, who offered up
Themselves to avenge his death: and they accuse me
Of an ignoble loitering—they would not
Forsake their leader even in his death—they died for him!
And shall I live?—
For me too was that laurel-garland twined
That decks his bier. Life is an empty casket:
I throw it from me. O! my only hope;—
To die beneath the hoofs of trampling steeds—
That is the lot of heroes upon earth!

[Exit Thekla.
(The curtain drops.)
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