Were you to ask me, Die Zauberflöte seems
a rather contradict'ry work to me,
for would not all mothers be desirous
of the highest goodness for their daughters?
Yet the Queen of the Night seems not so - if
the other characters should be believed.
I do not accept; believe? I do not!
Could such e'er be true? Could such? Could such?
Ah, would I knew!
Yet were
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