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

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Chapter 55

The Maid of the Mill

If still with as fond and heartfelt love,

As thou once didst swear, I'm cherish'd,
Then nought of the rapture we used to prove

Is perish'd.
So take the woman so dear to thy breast!
In her young and innocent charms be blest,

For all are thine from henceforward!