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IN A PINEWOOD
AT THE GÜTSCH, LUCERNE
Friend of the sorrowful, not a heart is aching
But, charmed by this your happy cloistral shade,
Would find his grief before your music fade,
And feel his sadness of your joy partaking;
For here, though scarce a sunbeam through is breaking,
The trees are glad with such sweet serenade,
Such humming melodies, as would persuade
All things that are forlorn to merry-making.
But, charmed by this your happy cloistral shade,
Would find his grief before your music fade,
And feel his sadness of your joy partaking;
For here, though scarce a sunbeam through is breaking,
The trees are glad with such sweet serenade,
Such humming melodies, as would persuade
All things that are forlorn to merry-making.
Led by the woodland's sympathetic will
The wanderer here in darkest mood may stray,
Till, sudden pausing where the robin sings,
He feels the fragrant roof above him rings
With message that the sun is shining still,
And down dim aisles his sorrow slips away.
The wanderer here in darkest mood may stray,
Till, sudden pausing where the robin sings,
He feels the fragrant roof above him rings
With message that the sun is shining still,
And down dim aisles his sorrow slips away.
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