The Poems of Goethe - Translated in the original metres by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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page 117 of 704 (16%)
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The draught in the passage is pour'd;
No more for the flying present Receives she the flying reward. For all the roof and the rafters, They all long since have been burn'd, And stairs and passage and chapel To rubbish and ruins are turn'd. Yet when with lute and with flagon, When day was smiling and bright, I've watch'd my mistress climbing To gain this perilous height, Then rapture joyous and radiant The silence so desolate brake, And all, as in days long vanish'd, Once more to enjoyment awoke; As if for guests of high station The largest rooms were prepared; As if from those times so precious |
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