Sonnets in Switzerland and Italy By the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley |
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AT THE MINNESINGER'S SEAT ABOVE CHARTREUSE
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AT THE MINNESINGER'S SEAT ABOVE CHARTREUSE
THUN
We may not watch thee sitting in the shade
In front of Blümlis and its purple shore,
Far-seeing fancy cannot quite restore
The knightly form that here his ballads made;
Yet, Minnesinger! mightily to aid
Come the sweet presences that came of yore,
The merry cricket chirping at his door,
The gossamer rainbows flashed from blade to blade.
In front of Blümlis and its purple shore,
Far-seeing fancy cannot quite restore
The knightly form that here his ballads made;
Yet, Minnesinger! mightily to aid
Come the sweet presences that came of yore,
The merry cricket chirping at his door,
The gossamer rainbows flashed from blade to blade.
One sweeter presence in this beechen grove
You left, we hear it in the cuckoo's call,
We see her bending o'er the blackbird's nest,
The flowers come with her still for festival,
She is a form more beauteous than the rest,
Where all is beauty, and her name is Love!
You left, we hear it in the cuckoo's call,
We see her bending o'er the blackbird's nest,
The flowers come with her still for festival,
She is a form more beauteous than the rest,
Where all is beauty, and her name is Love!
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