The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres Papyras Classics

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Chapter 37

Count

In truth, I hope myself unstain'd,

And free from grievous crime;
Yet I am here a prisoner chain'd,

And pass in grief my time,
To me thou art an image sure
Of many a maiden, mild and pure,

And yet I know a dearer.