(Not in the English sense of the word, but the German, where it
has the meaning of betrothed.)
I SLEPT,–’twas midnight,–in my bosom woke,
As though ’twere day, my love-o’erflowing heart;
To me it seemed like night, when day first broke;
What is’t to me, whate’er it may impart?
She was away; the world’s unceasing strife
For her alone I suffer’d through the heat
Of sultry day; oh, what refreshing life
At cooling eve!–my guerdon was complete.
The sun now set, and wand’ring hand in hand,
His last and blissful look we greeted then;
While spake our eyes, as they each other scann’d:
“From the far east, let’s trust, he’ll come again!”
At midnight!–the bright stars, in vision blest,
Guide to the threshold where she slumbers calm:
Oh be it mine, there too at length to rest,–
Yet howsoe’er this prove, life’s full of charm!
1828.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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