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LYRICAL POEMS.
‘O weep not, golden maiden!
O what has come to thee?
For thee has ever, ever,
My heart beat loyally.’
Thereon with fond affection
Her to my heart I press,
And all intoxicated
I swim in happiness.
The calm still moon forth issued,
All wan and pale was she,
And when I kiss’d my darling,
She smil’d our bliss to see.
To meet again to-morrow
We faithful promise made,
But something rustled near us,—
O how we were afraid!
Then I at length arising
Accompanied her home,
And still I gave her kisses—
What’s that to any one?
⁂ This song is extremely popular with the “lower orders” in Bohemia, I have therefore employed extremely popular language in the translation.
