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18.

 

UM CICLO DE DIAS

 

            ALAS! I cannot pray, –– my heart within

            Burns with mad conflict, –– love, despair, and sin,

 

            I SANG to my heart in the sunshine of May,

            And the garrulous bird on the sycamore spray

                                   Sang to his mate in the nest;

            “Sweetheart, the daffodil blooms on the lea,

            The blossoms are thick upon bramble and tree,

            And all through the long merry year we will be

                                   Treu und Fest, Treu und Fest.”

 

            I sang to my heart in the burning July,

            And the yellow-haired sun in a sapphire sky

                                   Uplifted his fiery crest;

            And the thousand-tongued land was melodious with song,

            “O the fields shall be golden, the days shall be long,

            And Love in the sunshine is valiant and strong; ––

                                   Treu und Fest, Treu und Fest.”

 

            I sang to my heart in the wane of the year,

            And the glare of the sunset hung lurid and drear

                                   Far down in the sorrowful west;

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            The nest was forsaken, the sparrow had fled,

            The music was hushed and the blossoms were dead, ––

            But a voice through the silence and solitude said,

                                   “Treu und Fest, Treu und Fest!”

 

            And still sings that voice in the wind and the snow,

            “There is light after darkness, and joy after woe,

                                   And the love that is tried is the best;

            I care not though tempest be black in the sky,

            Though the bird may be fickle, and blossoms may die,

            What matter? –– my darling shall find me for aye

                                   Treu und Fest, Treu und Fest!”

 

 

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