Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Strasburg | | German Nursery Song | | From the German |
| | Translated by C. T. Brooks
O STRASBURG, O Strasburg! thou city wondrous fair! | |
| How many a buried soldier is lying ’neath thee there! | |
| How many a fair and gallant one is now lying low, | |
| Who left his father and mother so long, long ago! | |
| He left them, he left them, but help it how could he? | 5 |
| In Strasburg, in Strasburg, soldiers there must be. | |
| The mother and the sister they sought the captain’s door: | |
| “Ah, captain, dearest captain, let me see my son once more.” | |
| “For gold on gold I cannot give your son to you again,— | |
| Your son,—and he must perish on the broad and distant plain; | 10 |
| On the broad and the distant, the distant field must die, | |
| Where o’er him many a dark-brown maid so mournfully shall sigh.” | | | | |
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