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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893.

Translations

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;

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.”