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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882).  Complete Poetical Works.  1893.
 
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From the German.
The Wave
 
        
(Die Welle)
By Christoph August Tiedge

“WHITHER, thou turbid wave?
Whither, with so much haste,
As if a thief wert thou?”
 
  “I am the Wave of Life,
Stained with my margin’s dust;        5
From the struggle and the strife
Of the narrow stream I fly
To the Sea’s immensity,
To wash from me the slime
Of the muddy banks of Time.”        10
 
 
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