| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | Translations | From the German.
The Hemlock Tree |
| | | O HEMLOCK tree! O hemlock tree! how faithful are thy branches! | |
| Green not alone in summer time, | |
| But in the winter’s frost and rime! | |
| O hemlock tree! O hemlock tree! how faithful are thy branches! | |
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| O maiden fair! O maiden fair! how faithless is thy bosom! | 5 |
| To love me in prosperity, | |
| And leave me in adversity! | |
| O maiden fair! O maiden fair! how faithless is thy bosom! | |
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| The nightingale the nightingale, thou tak’st for thine example! | |
| So long as summer laughs she sings, | 10 |
| But in the autumn spreads her wings. | |
| The nightingale, the nightingale, thou tak’st for thine example! | |
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| The meadow brook, the meadow brook, is mirror of thy falsehood! | |
| It flows so long as falls the rain, | |
| In drought its springs soon dry again. | 15 |
| The meadow brook, the meadow brook, is mirror of thy falsehood! | | | | |
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