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Lovely are her gifts, her hand
Joy bestows, and honour too;
The virtues come at her command,
Joys of sight and joys of heart
She bestows, as she may choose,
And splendid fortune doth impart."

"How shall I obtain, sir knight,

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All these gifts of lady love?
Must I bear a load of care?

Much too weak my frame would prove.
Grief and care I cannot bear ;

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
Firm in love's sweet harmony,

Thou still mine, I still thine."

"It cannot be, sir knight, with me;
Be your own, I'll still be mine."

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,
Hoeret wie mit winde broget! &c.

Now will the foe of ev'ry flower,
Send forth the tempest of his rage;
List! how his winds the battle wage,
And blow the fields and woodlands o'er!
Him nought withstands: his giant power
Tears from the plat the rose away,
And withers up each flow'ret gay;

So sharp his rage is to devour.
For this, the meads are sorrowing,

The birds are dumb, no longer song
Bursts the mute groves and hills among,

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.

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Must echo from the verdant spray,

Chill frost asserts its power;
Where now is gone thy bloom,

Thy flowers so fair?

The verdant pride of mead and grove,
The leaf-crown'd forest, where?

In the whitening frost their bloom is lost,

And gone are their joys as the things that were.

DER DURING.

London. Published by Longman & May, 1825.

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