sentences:  Prince Tamino has just been presented by the Three Ladies with an image of the princess Pamina, and falls instantly in love with her.The words of "Dies Bildnis" were written by Emanuel Schikaneder, a leading man of the theater in Vienna in Mozart's time, who wrote the libretto of the opera as well as running the troupe that premiered it and playing the role of Papageno.There are fourteen lines of poetry, which Peter Branscombe described as "a very tolerable sonnet."