[A translation into English of a poem Elisabeth wrote two weeks after her wedding]Oh, had I but never left the pathThat would have led me to freedom.Oh, that on the broad avenuesOf vanity I had never strayed!I have awakened in a dungeon,With chains on my hands.And my longing ever stronger-And freedom! You, turned from me!I have awakened from a rapture,Which held my spirit captive,And vainly do I curse this exchange,In which I gambled away you -freedom!- away. The Reluctant Empress, Chapter 2
-Brigitte Hamann
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