It beckons from fairy tales
Luring with a white hand,
It does sing and it does wail
Just like a magic land:
Where the great flowers shrivel
In evening sun so gold,
And thinking back while civil
With bridal guise foretold;-
Where every sapling knows speech
and sings just like a choir,
and powerful sources breach
Like dance music on fire; -
And love songs chime through the land,
Like you’ve ne’er heard before,
Until the yearning is grand
Will it make you implore!
Ah, could I really go there,
And show my heart its glee,
And take away so much tear,
And be blissful and free!
Ach! Every land of pleasure,
I see often in dreams;
But come the morning’s treasure,
All dissipates like cream.
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