Living
Dame Fortune
Translated by Frank C. Nicholson (1907) · From Old German Love Songs (1907)
Living
No man should ever quite despair,
Though in hard case he chance to live.
His griefs discreetly let him bear;
This counsel to myself I give.
Dame Fortune's shyer than a deer,
And is my foe as well, I fear.
I ever follow up her tread
And near her have I often drawn,—
Then with her wiles she speeds ahead!
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Rubin. “Dame Fortune.” Translated by Frank C. Nicholson. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rubin/0/.
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Rubin. “Dame Fortune.” Translated by Frank C. Nicholson. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rubin/0/.
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