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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Two

By Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892)

TO one exalted aim we both are tending,

I and thou!

To one captivity we both are bending,

I and thou!

In my heart thee I close—thou me in thine;

In twofold life, yet one, we both are blending,

I and thou!

Thee my wit draws—and me thine eye of beauty;

Two fishes, from one bait we are depending,

I and thou!

Yet unlike fishes—through the air of Heaven,

Like two brave eagles, we are both ascending,

I and thou!