Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Kitzen | | Leave-taking from Life | | Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) |
| | Translated by W. B. Chorley
THE DEEP wound burns,—my parched lips coldly quiver,— | |
| I feel, by my faint heart’s unsteady beating, | |
| That the last pulse of my young life is fleeting,— | |
| God, to thy hands my spirit I deliver! | |
| How sounds of coming death all harshly sever | 5 |
| The fair dream-music, where bright forms were meeting! | |
| Yet, courage! what hath given my heart true greeting, | |
| I shall yet keep to dwell with me forever! | |
| And all towards which my worship here ascended, | |
| What my hot youth, with fieriest zeal defended, | 10 |
| Now viewed in Freedom,—once with Love all blended, | |
| I see, as a light seraph, o’er me flying,— | |
| And whilst each fainting sense is slowly dying, | |
| It wafts sweet airs with Heaven’s morn-fragrance sighing! | | | | |
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