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TO A. S. - ZaunköniG - 05.05.2012 TO A. S. LIKE some wild bird that warbles to itself Secure among the leaves, I piped my song, But little thinking I of name or pelf, And caring only I might sing as long As the rude chant could please my partial ear, Or till the heart that out of fulness sang, Content with utterance, ceased. - That thou shouldst hear, With whose own strains of late the forest rang, I could not dream; but now that thou hast heard, And claimed for brother-singer of the wood One who but thought to carol undeterred And all unknown, I quit my solitude, And from the topmost branch of all the tree I sing this song, not for myself, but thee. |