Winterreise
Interpretations across two centuries of A Winter's Journey
   

delusion

    
  Painting by Pip Wolf Poem/sketch collage Music score fascimile  
 

 
From Franz Schubert & Wilhelm Muller to Robert Lloyd, Julius Drake & Pip Woolf

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A friendly light
dances before me

and I follow its zigzag course.

I follow willingly and see
that it lures me off my path.

A man as wretched as I

gladly surrenders to
such a brightly-hued guile

which shows him –
beyond ice, darkness and terror –
a bright, warm house
and a dear one within.
Delusion –
that is all I would win!