Enter my domain...

BLUEBEARD

Tell me why you came here, Judith.

JUDITH

I shall dry weeping flagstones

With my own lips they shall be dried.

I shall warm this icy marble,

Warm it with my living body.

Let me do it, let me do it

Darling Bluebeard!

I shall brighten your sad castle,

You and I shall breach these ramparts.

Wind shall blow through, light shall enter,

Light shall enter.

Your house shall glitter bright as gold.

BLUEBEARD

Naught can glitter in my castle.

from Bela Bartok's libretto, Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Bluebeard's Castle)