BYU Studies Quarterly

Keywords
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zauberflöte;, Plan of salvation, Mormon theology, Salvation, History of doctrines, 18th century, Christianity, literature, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Doctrines
Abstract
The painful sighs are now past.
Elysium's joyful banquets
Drown the slightest moan—
Elysium's life is
Eternal rapture, eternal flight;
Through laughing meadows a brook pipes its tune.
..........
Here faithful couples embrace each other,
Kiss on the velvet green sward
As the soothing west wind caresses them;
Here love is crowned,
Safe from death's merciless blow
It celebrates an eternal wedding feast.
—Friedrich Schiller
Recommended Citation
Fowles, John B.
(2004)
"From Arcadia to Elysium in The Magic Flute and Weimar Classicism: The Plan of Salvation and Eighteenth-Century Views of Moral Progression,"
BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 43:
Iss.
3, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol43/iss3/8