. Ballads. e Rose would also seek. So he might learn like you to love and speak. Then answered me the bird of dusky beak, The Rose, the Rose of Love, blushes on Leilahs cheek. 214 LOVE SONGS MADK KASY. Tin: MINAIIET TiNK-A-TixK, ,By the liglit of tlie star, On llic blim rivers brink,I heard a guitar. I heard a guitar. On the bhie Avaters clear,And knew by its music. That Selim was near I Tink-a-tink, the soft music swells. And I hear the soft clink,Of the minaret bells! FIVE GERMAN DITTIES. 215 FIVE GERMAN DITTIES. A TRAGIC STORY. BT ADELBERT TON CHAMISS
. Ballads. e Rose would also seek. So he might learn like you to love and speak. Then answered me the bird of dusky beak, The Rose, the Rose of Love, blushes on Leilahs cheek. 214 LOVE SONGS MADK KASY. Tin: MINAIIET TiNK-A-TixK, ,By the liglit of tlie star, On llic blim rivers brink,I heard a guitar. I heard a guitar. On the bhie Avaters clear,And knew by its music. That Selim was near I Tink-a-tink, the soft music swells. And I hear the soft clink,Of the minaret bells! FIVE GERMAN DITTIES. 215 FIVE GERMAN DITTIES. A TRAGIC STORY. BT ADELBERT TON CHAMISSO. 9 war Einer, dems zu Herzen gieng. There lived a sage in days of yore,And he a handsome pigtail wore ;But wondered much, and sorrowed it hung behind him. He mused upon this curious case. And swore hed change the pigtails place, And have it hanging at his face. Not dangling there behind him. Says he, The mystery Ive found ;1*11 turn me round. He turned him round,But still it hun(T behind THE CHAPLET. 217 Then round and round, and out and in,All day the puzzled sage did spin;In vain — it mattered not a pin — The pigtail hung behind him. And right and left, and round about,And up and down, and in and out,He turned; but still the pigtail stoutHung steadily behind him. And though his efforts never slack,And though he twist, and twirl, and tackAlas ! still faithful to his back. The pigtail hangs behind him. THE CHAPLET. FKOM XTHLAND.« Es pfluckte Bliimlein manigfalt. A LITTLE girl through field and woodWent plucking flowerets here and there. When suddenly beside her stoodA lady, wondrous fair. L18 TlIK ( The luvcly lady smiled, and laidA wreath upon the maidens brow; AVear it, twill blossom soon, she said, Although tis leafless now. The little maiden older grew. And wandered forth of moonlight eves, And sighed and loved, as maids will do;When, lo! her wreath bore leaves. Then was our maid a wife, and hungUpon a joyful bridegrooms bosom ; When from t
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