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| WHENE’ER with haggard eyes I view | |
| This dungeon that I ’m rotting in, | |
| I think of those companions true | |
| Who studied with me at the U— | |
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| —niversity of Göttingen. | |
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| Sweet kerchief, checked with heavenly blue, | |
| Which once my love sat knotting in!— | |
| Alas! Matilda then was true! | |
| At least I thought so at the U— | 10 |
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| Barbs! barbs! alas! how swift you flew | |
| Her neat post-wagon trotting in! | |
| Ye bore Matilda from my view; | 15 |
| Forlorn I languished at the U— | |
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| —niversity of Göttingen. | |
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| This faded form! this pallid hue! | |
| This blood my veins is clotting in, | 20 |
| My years are many,—they were few | |
| When first I entered at the U— | |
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| —niversity of Göttingen. | |
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| There first for thee my passion grew, | 25 |
| Sweet! sweet Matilda Pottingen! | |
| Thou wast the daughter of my tu— | |
| —tor, law professor at the U— | |
| —niversity of Göttingen— | |
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| Sun, moon, and thou vain world, adieu, | |
| That kings and priests are plotting in: | |
| Here doomed to starve on water gru— | |
| —el, never shall I see the U— | |
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| —niversity of Göttingen. | |
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