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

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Chapter 52

The Poet

The swarthy woman then went inside,

To the spring in the courtyard yonder;
Her eyes from their stain she purified,

And,—wonder!—
Her face and eyes were radiant and bright,
And the maid of the mill was disclosed to the sight

Of the startled and angry stripling!