Crossword-Solution: KASSANDRA 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Und den Mordstahl seh’ ich blinken; Und das Morderauge gluhn! “Kassandra.” (And I see the steel of Murder glitter, And the eye of Murder glow.) Viola was in the prison that opened not but for those already condemned before adjudged.

And yet, with the Kassandra of Eulenberg, Berlioz could have said at the moment when it seemed as though eternal night were about to obscure him forever: "Einst treibt der Frühling uns in neuer Blüthe Empor ans Licht; Leben, wir scheiden nicht, Denn ewig bleibet, was in uns erglühte Und drängt sich ewig wieder auf zum Licht!" For the likeness so many of the new men bear him has provided us with a wonderful instance of the eternal recurrence of things.

Then she who in the temple all that night Had kept her rueful watch, the prophetess Kassandra, peering sharply, heard the press And rush of flight above her, and with sick Foreboding waited; and the air grew thick With flying shapes immortal overhead.

But in the city, like a stricken bird Grieving her desolation and despair, As voiceless and as lustreless, astare For imminent Death, Kassandra croucht beneath Her very doom, herself the bride of Death; For in the temple's forecourt reared the mass Of that which was to bring the woe to pass, And hidden in him both her murderers Wrung at their nails.

Kassandra cast Her mantle o'er her head, and with slow feet Entered her shrine deserted, there to greet Her fate when it should come; and merciful Sleep Befriended her.