Time & Brevity
The Lot of All
Translated by Frank C. Nicholson (1907) · From Old German Love Songs (1907)
Time & Brevity
This blade of straw we praise, for produce it hath borne.
The season hath been fair and plentiful of corn,
And glad thereat the world hath been.
Where could a fairer straw be seen?
With plenteous store the rich man's barns and coffers it supplieth.
Then, when it once hath done its part, rotten and foul it lieth.
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Codex Note
Spervogel II
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