Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Miscellaneous | | Consolation | | Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857) |
| | Translated by H. W. Dulcken
THERE sang full many a poet, | |
| In our beautiful German land, | |
| Whose songs now no longer echo;— | |
| The singers rest in the sand. | |
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| But still, while around our planet | 5 |
| The stars through the heavens shall range, | |
| Shall hearts sing, in changing measure, | |
| Of the beauty that knows no change. | |
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| I’ the woodland yonder lies ruined | |
| The home of the heroes hoar; | 10 |
| But yearly, from hall and portal, | |
| The spring breaks forth as before. | |
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| Wherever the weary warriors | |
| Sink down in the maddening rout, | |
| New races are forward springing, | 15 |
| And fighting it honestly out. | | | | |
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