. The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; masterpieces of German literature . ^ THE BROKEN RING* (1810) DOWN in yon cool valleyI hear a mill-wheel go:Alas! my love has left me,Who once dwelt there below. A ring of gold she gave me,And vowed she would be true; The vow long since was broken,The gold ring snapped in two. I would I were a minstrel,To rove the wide world o*er, And sing afar my rove from door to door; Or else a soldier, flyingDeep into furious fight, By silent camp-fires lyingA-field in gloomy night. Hear I the mill-wheel going:I know not what I w
. The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; masterpieces of German literature . ^ THE BROKEN RING* (1810) DOWN in yon cool valleyI hear a mill-wheel go:Alas! my love has left me,Who once dwelt there below. A ring of gold she gave me,And vowed she would be true; The vow long since was broken,The gold ring snapped in two. I would I were a minstrel,To rove the wide world o*er, And sing afar my rove from door to door; Or else a soldier, flyingDeep into furious fight, By silent camp-fires lyingA-field in gloomy night. Hear I the mill-wheel going:I know not what I will; Twere best if I were dying—Then all were calm and still. •Translator: C. G. Representative German Poems, Henry Holt & Co., New York. [236]. Fermission Berlin Photographic Co., New York JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF liRANZ KUGLER EICHENDORFF: POEMS 237 MORNING PRAYER* (1833) 0 SILENCE, wondrous and profound!Oer earth doth solitude still reign; The woods alone incline their heads,As if the Lord walked oer the plain. 1 feel new life within me glow;Where now is my distress and care? Here in the blush of waking morn,I blush at yesterdays despair. To me, a pilgrim, shall the world,With all its joy and sorrows, be But as a bridge that leads, 0 Lord,Across the stream of time to Thee. And should my song woo worldly gifts,The base rewards of vanity — Dash down my lyre! Ill hold my peaceBefore thee to eternity. * Translator: Alfred Baskerville.
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