| Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916. | | | | Elisabeth’s Song (From “Immensee”) | | By Theodor Storm (1817–1888) |
| | | ALL was for my mother’s sake: | |
| The other man she made me take! | |
| What it had owned before | |
| My heart should know no more, | |
| But could not thus forsake. | 5 |
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| Mother, I’m accusing you: | |
| Good to me you did not do; | |
| The world would have esteemed | |
| What now a sin is deemed. | |
| What shall I do! | 10 |
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| Now fled is joy and pride, | |
| But sorrow must abide. | |
| Oh, would this were not so, | |
| Could I a-begging go, | |
| Over the brown heath wide! | 15 | | | |
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