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DAS SCHLOSS AM MEER.

(UHLAND.)

Banquet and festal song?

"The winds and the waves together

Lay in unshaken rest;

From the hall a song of mourning

Heard I with tears opprest."

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Didst thou behold ascending

The queen and the king so bold, -

The flutter of crimson mantles,

The glitter of crowns of gold?

Came there not forth beside them

With joy a maiden there,

Even as the sun most glorious,

With a halo of golden hair?

"Certes I saw the parents,

Tho' no crowns shone splendidly;

Black were their robes of sorrow : -

The girl I could not see!"

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