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

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Chapter 47

Gipsy

I sing of a maid's repentant fears,

And long and bitter yearning;
Her levity's changed to truth and tears

All-burning.
She dreads no more the threats of her mother,
She dreads far less the blows of her brother,

Than the dearly loved-one's hatred.