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
M
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.