| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | Appendix | II. Unacknowledged and Uncollected Translations.
A Soldier’s Song |
| | Paraphrase of a Neapolitan popular song.
“WHO knocks,—who knocks at my door. | |
| Who knocks, and who can it be?” | |
| “Thy own true lover, betrothed forever, | |
| So open the door to me.” | |
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| “My mother is not at home, | 5 |
| So I cannot open to thee.” | |
| “Why make me wait so long at the gate, | |
| For mercy’s sake open to me.” | |
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| “Thou canst not come in so late, | |
| From the window I ’ll listen to thee.” | 10 |
| “My cloak is old, and the wind blows cold, | |
| So open the door to me.” | | | | |
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