O maiden fair! O maiden fair! how So love in our hearts shall grow mighty faithless is thy bosom ! To love me in prosperity, And leave me in adversity! O maiden fair! O maiden fair! how faithless is thy bosom ! The nightingale, the nightingale, thou tak'st for thine example! So long as summer laughs she sings, But in the autumn spreads her wings. The nightingale, the nightingale, thou tak'st for thine example! 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. The meadow brook, the meadow brook, is mirror of thy falsehood! ANNIE OF THARAW. FROM THE LOW GERMAN OF SIMON DACH. ANNIE of Tharaw, my true love of old, She is my life, and my goods, and my gold. Annie of Tharaw, her heart once again To me has surrendered in joy and in pain. Annie of Tharaw, my riches, my good, Thou, O my soul, my flesh, and my blood! Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow. and strong, Through crosses, through sorrows, through manifold wrong. It is this, O my Annie, my heart's | And the Saviour speaks in mildness : sweetest rest, That makes of us twain but one soul in one breast. "Blest be thou of all the good! Bear, as token of this moment, Marks of blood and holy rood!" And that bird is called the crossbill; THE SEA HATH ITS PEARLS. FROM THE GERMAN OF HEINRICH HEINE THE sea hath its pearls, The heaven hath its stars; Great are the sea and the heaven; Thou little, youthful maiden, POETIC APHORISMS. FROM THE SINNGEDICHTE OF FRIEDRICH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. MONEY. WHEREUNTO is money good? THE BEST MEDICINES. Joy and Temperance and Repose SIN. MAN-LIKE is it to fall into sin, |