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Believe It Not

Translation of John Pollen

BELIEVE it not, when in excess of sorrow

I murmur that my love for thee is o’er!

When ebbs the tide, think not the sea’s a traitor,—

He will return and love the land once more.

I still am pining, full of former passion:

To thee again my freedom I’ll restore,

E’en as the waves, with homeward murmur flowing,

Roll back from far to the beloved shore!