Lovely are her gifts, her hand "How shall I obtain, sir knight, All these gifts of lady love? Much too weak my frame would prove. Can I then the boon obtain ; Tell me, sir knight, then, how and where." Lady, thou should'st think of me As I of thee think,-heartily. Thus shall we together blend Thou still mine, I still thine." "It cannot be, sir knight, with me; GOESLI OF EHENHEIM. OF "Her Goesli von Ehenheim" only a few verses remain. He belongs to the first half of the 13th century. One of his songs thus opens; Nu ist der blúenden heide voget Mit gewalt uf uns gezoget, Now will the foe of ev'ry flower, So sharp his rage is to devour. The birds are dumb, no longer song Chill'd by cold snows,-Yet still my love I sing..... THE THURINGIAN. It has been supposed that this poet, to whom the epithet "der Diuring" is given, was the Landgrave of Thuringia himself, the celebrated patron of the Minnesingers at the commencement of the 13th century. Others have suspected him to be the same as Christian von Lupin. Must echo from the verdant spray, Chill frost asserts its power; Thy flowers so fair? The verdant pride of mead and grove, In the whitening frost their bloom is lost, And gone are their joys as the things that were. |