Love
Lyrical Intermezzo, 21
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Book of Songs: Lyrical Intermezzo
Love
The flutes and fiddles are sounding,
The trumpets ringing clear;
In the wedding dance is bounding
My heart’s own mistress dear.
The shawms and kettle-drums vying
In noisy chorus I hear;
But meanwhile good angels are sighing
And weeping many a tear.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 21.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/112/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 21.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/112/.
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