C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Song: ‘No thanks to Tristan that his heart had been’
By Heinrich von Veldeke (c. 1140–50–c. 1190)
Translation of Edgar Taylor
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Faithful and true unto his queen;
For thereto did a potion move
More than the power of love:
Sweet thought to me,
That ne’er such cup my lips have prest;
Yet deeper love than ever he
Conceived, dwells in my breast:
So may it be!
So constant may it rest!
Call me but thine
As thou art mine!