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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Song: ‘Mine is the fortune of a simple child’

By Heinrich von Morungen (d. 1222)

Translation of Edgar Taylor

MINE is the fortune of a simple child,

That in the glass his image looks upon;

And by the shadow of himself beguiled

Breaks quick the brittle charm, and joy is gone.

So gazed I—and I deemed my joy would last—

On the bright image of my lady fair:

But ah! the dream of my delight is past,

And love and rapture yield to dark despair.