Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Germany: Vols. XVIIXVIII. 187679. | | Appendix: Wetzlar | Sorrows of Werther | William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) |
| WERTHER had a love for Charlotte | |
Such as words could never utter; | |
Would you know how first he met her? | |
She was cutting bread and butter. | |
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Charlotte was a married lady, | 5 |
And a moral man was Werther, | |
And for all the wealth of Indies | |
Would do nothing for to hurt her. | |
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So he sighed and pined and ogled, | |
And his passion boiled and bubbled, | 10 |
Till he blew his silly brains out, | |
And no more was by it troubled. | |
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Charlotte, having seen his body | |
Borne before her on a shutter, | |
Like a well-conducted person, | 15 |
Went on cutting bread and butter. | | | |
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