[mp3 영어 독해&청취] The Sorrows of Young Werther 젊은 베르테르의 슬픔!

He ate some bread, drank some wine, sent his servant to dinner, and then sat down to write as follows:
It has been in your hands. You wiped the dust from it. I kiss it a thousand times --- You have touched it. Heaven blesses my plan, because you, Lotte, provide me with the fatal weapon. It was my desire to receive my death from your hands, and any wish has been granted. My servant told me that you trembled when you gave him the pistol, but you sent me no message -- not even farewell! How could you shut your heart against me in that moment which made you mine forever? Lotte, eternity cannot erase my love -- I feel you cannot hate the man who so passionately loves you!

After dinner he went out for a walk in the rain. Toward evening he came back, and continued his writing.

Wilhelm, I have for the last time seen the mountains, the forests, and the sky. Farewell! And you, my dearest mother, forgive me! Console her, Wilhelm. God bless you! I have settled all my affairs! Farewell! We shall meet again, and be happier than ever.

I have repaid your kindness badly, Albert, but you will forgive me. I have disturbed the peace of your home. I have sowed distrust between you and Lotte. Farewell! I will end all this wretchedness. And oh, I hope that my death may make you happy! Albert, Albert! Make that angel happy, and may the blessing of Heaven be upon you!

At ten o’clock he ordered a bottle of wine to be brought to him. He then dismissed his servant, and told him they would leave at six o’clock in the morning.

Past eleven o’clock! All is silent around me, and my soul is calm. I thank thee, O God, for the strength and courage I feel in these last moments! I approach the window, Lotte, and see the stars which illuminate the eternal heavens. No, they will not fall. The hand of the Almighty supports us all! I have looked for the last time upon my favorite star in the constellation of the Greater Bear. It is my favorite star, for when I said farewell to you at night, Lotte, and turned toward home, it always shone upon me. Many times it witnessed my happiness! But what object is there, Lotte, which fails to call up your image before me?
You surround me everywhere. And like a child, I have kept everything you touched.
Your profile, which was so dear to me! I return to you, and I pray that you keep it. Thousands of kisses have I left upon it, and a thousand times it has gladdened my heart on departing from and returning to my home.
I wish to lie in the corner of the churchyard, under the two linden trees. Your father can, and probably will, do this much for me. Please beg him to. But perhaps pious Christians will not want the corpse of a poor, unhappy wretch like me near their bodies. Then let me be laid in some remote valley, or near the highway, where travelers may bless themselves as they pass by my tomb, and shed a tear for my fate.
I wish, Lotte, to be buried in the clothes I wear at present, for they have been made sacred by your touch. I do not wish my pocket to be searched. There, in my pocket, is the knot of pint ribbon which you wore on your bosom the first time I saw you. Oh, kiss the children a thousand times for me, and tell them the fate of their unhappy friend! The dear children! How warmly have I been attached to you, Lotte! Since the first hour I saw you, how impossible have I found it to leave you! This ribbon must be buried with me, for it was a present from you on my birthday. Little did I then think that I should journey this road. But peace! I pray you, peace!
It is loaded --- the clock strikes twelve. Time is up. Lotte, Lotte! Farewwell, farewell!

[주요 어휘 및 표현]
pistol 권총 / farewell 작별인사; 안녕히 가세요 / console 위로하다, 위안을 주다 / sow sow (특히 문제의 소지가 있는 감정, 생각 등을) 심다[싹트게 하다], (씨를) 뿌리다[심다] cf. to sow doubt in sb's mind…의 마음에 의혹을 심다 / wretchedness 가엾음, 불쌍함 / illuminate (…에 불을) 비추다 / constellation 별자리 / the Greater bear 큰곰자리, 북두칠성 / call something up ~을 상기시키다 / profile 옆얼굴(의 윤곽), (얼굴의) 옆모습 / gladden 기쁘게 하다 / linden (식물)린덴 (보리수, 참피나무 무리) / pious 경건한, 독실한 / corpse 시체, 송장 /

요한 볼프강 폰 괴테(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe): 독일, 1749 ~ 1832
프랑크푸르트 암 마인(Frankfurt am Main)의 상류층 가정에서 태어난 괴테는 아버지의 권유로 라이프치히 대학(University of Leipzig)에서 법률을 전공하였다. 이후 베츨러(Wetzlar)라는 도시에서 법무 실습을 했던 경험을 바탕으로 「젊은 베르테르의 슬픔(The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774)」을 펴낸 괴테는 이 작품의 성공으로 일약 유명작가로 발돋움하였다. 그는 작고하기 1년 전, 앞서 출간된 희곡 「파우스트 1부(Faust I, 1808)」에 이은 「파우스트 2부(Faust II)」를 발표, 근대문학의 걸작 중 하나로 추앙 받는 「파우스트」를 완성하였다. 괴테는 지칠 줄 모르는 열정과 다방면에 걸친 지식을 바탕으로 생을 마치는 순간까지 왕성한 작품활동을 펼쳤으며, 독일 고전주의를 확립했다는 평과 함께, 딱딱하고 세련되지 못했던 독일어를 아름답게 다듬은 작가로 일컬어지고 있다.


The Sorrows of Young Werther(젊은 베르테르의 슬픔)

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