Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Jauer | | Hedwig’s Well, near Jauer | | Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) |
| | Translated by W. B. Chorley
HOW shall I speak what in my breast hath striven? | |
| How joy and sorrow bear, quick changes proving, | |
| My softened heart to days of happy loving, | |
| In which tears had not yet their poison given! | |
| Who hath bound in sorrow my free Heaven? | 5 |
| Who dared to fetter thus my spirit’s roving, | |
| The minstrel to war’s crimes by force removing? | |
| Who hath my tree of peace thus foully riven? | |
| What! hath not mine own hand the sword fast strained, | |
| That to my German soil, by blood free rained, | 10 |
| Youth for a holy work, and life, he gained? | |
| There speaks a God, in these waves’ murmurs dwelling, | |
| “Strength must have way, the rocky heart o’er-swelling, | |
| And from the deeps of death springs life pure welling.” | | | | |
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