Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.
Theklas SongAnonymous
Translated from Schiller
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A maiden is walking the grassy shore,
And as the wave breaks with might, with might,
She singeth aloud in the darksome night,
But a tear is in her troubled eye.
And reflects the bright aspect of Nature no more;
Then take back thy child, holy Virgin, to thee!
I have plucked the one blossom that hangs on earth’s tree,
I have lived, and have loved, and die.