MAY SONG.

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
56The Poems

BETWEEN wheatfield and corn, Between hedgerow and thorn, Between pasture and tree, Where's my sweetheart Tell it me!

Sweetheart caught I

Not at home; She's then, thought I.

Gone to roam. Fair and loving

Blooms sweet May; Sweetheart's roving,

Free and gay.

By the rock near the wave, Where her first kiss she gave, On the greensward, to me,-- Something I see! Is it she?

1812.

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