Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Germany: Vols. XVIIXVIII. 187679. | | Kitzen | Leave-taking from Life | Karl Theodor Körner (17911813) |
| Translated by W. B. Chorley THE DEEP wound burns,my parched lips coldly quiver, | |
I feel, by my faint hearts unsteady beating, | |
That the last pulse of my young life is fleeting, | |
God, to thy hands my spirit I deliver! | |
How sounds of coming death all harshly sever | 5 |
The fair dream-music, where bright forms were meeting! | |
Yet, courage! what hath given my heart true greeting, | |
I shall yet keep to dwell with me forever! | |
And all towards which my worship here ascended, | |
What my hot youth, with fieriest zeal defended, | 10 |
Now viewed in Freedom,once with Love all blended, | |
I see, as a light seraph, oer me flying, | |
And whilst each fainting sense is slowly dying, | |
It wafts sweet airs with Heavens morn-fragrance sighing! | | | |
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