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

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Chapter 49

Gipsy

"Alas, alas! oh what have I done?

Can listening aught avail me?
I hear him toward my room hasten on,

To hail me.
My heart beat high, to myself I said:
'O would that thou hadst never betray'd

That night of love to thy mother!'"