In the noon-pool yesterday + in the morning-pool today
and once more in the noon-pool on my way to Shoham (bus, train, train, and car with I., E. and Mika)
new lyrics attached themselves to the Shakespeare-Schubert "To Sylvia" (i.e. to Romantic Love).
The process of how "my" lyrics create themselves as well as its result - a new song - was again amazing.
My only "input" had been my "intention": "a song for Efrat's birthday on July 5, which will help her to live her drama",
and what a thousand words nor an image could not have compressed into an "over-all" message,
was achieved by 3 times 3 short lines,
based, of course, on my research of the "Ruth-Efrat" or "Female Thread of Redemption in the Bible":

Ruth-Efrat, who is that - YOU? kalah, beautiful, loving! A stepmother, but not killing, wombing her son as her daughter! A sign of redemption! Heaven on Earth! You chose actors for the entire drama!

The final edition and recording will be done on July 5 [see below]

Comment to the English translation: "kalah" means both: bride and daughter-in-law, or as I prefer to call Efrat: daughter-in-love. The word "killing" horeget" rhymes with "stepmother" khoreget. "rokhemet", in the Bible only once in this form, but common in its other form "me-rakhemet" having compassion on, is derived from rekhaem-womb. The womb is for me the metaphorical space, where there is no polarity between light and darkness, water&non-water, and where there is no polarity, there is no choice, and where there is no choice, there is no responsibility, and where there is no responsibility, there is no judgment.

I'm crazy with this song.
Shakespeare-Schubert: Who is Sylvia
This site includes links to sheet-music, midi, etc
Lately I transferred some music to my cell-phone - from the folders,
in which I guard the content of 6 CDs ,
brought to me by Immanuel some 2 years ago.
I still haven't heard all of them.
Since I have a deep feeling for Schubert
- the music and the human being behind it -
I now chose pieces by this composer,
and that's how I came to know
this obviously famous song.
When I - now - discovered the lyrics,
I discarded the German translation,
on which Schubert based his music.
The original Shakespearean words
are so much deeper, and much more moving.

"Who is Silvia? What is she,
That all our lovers* commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.

"Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair **,
To help him of his blindness,
And, being helped, inhabits there.

"Then to Silvia let us sing,
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring."

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*In the original "swains",
** This line I do not yet understand.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
created his tune for the German translation
of a poem by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
ca. 1590 The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Act IV, Scene II:

But the original language of the text
also works with Schubert’s setting
"it is one of the greatest song settings
of Shakespeare."

I quote a few lines from the German song,
which doesn't start with
"Who is Sylvia", but with "What is Sylvia".
Was ist Silvia, saget an,
Daß sie die weite Flur preist?
Schön und zart seh ich sie nahn,
Auf Himmelsgunst und Spur weist,
Daß ihr alles untertan.

.... Ihrem Aug’ eilt Amor zu,
Dort heilt er seine Blindheit
Und verweilt in süßer Ruh....

I see Sylvia as an embodiment of LOVE
- she is the one,
whom each and everyone searches for,
she is the one,
about which "New Heart" could say:

"Here, very soon,
and for the first time ever ~
Form is to become
the container of New Heart ~
Spirit and Will in wholly complete union,
without guilt, blame or denial.
Original Heart is beginning
to re-member itself again ~
as New Heart, now in Body ~
and looking out through human eyes,
moist with Original Love.

"And yes,
beginning now to see ~
that there is indeed ~
another."
[the now is a more direct message available!]