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 LUDWIG ACHIM VON ARNIM AND CLEMENS BRENTANO

THE BOY'S MAGIC HORN (1806)

WERE I A LITTLE BIRD

I a little bird,

And had two little wings,

I'd fly to thee;

But I must stay, because

That cannot be.

Though I be far from thee,

In sleep I dwell with thee,

Thy voice I hear.

But when I wake again,

Then all is drear.

Each nightly hour my heart

With thoughts of thee will start

When I'm alone;

For thou 'st a thousand times

Pledged me thine own.

THE MOUNTAINEER

, would I were a falcon wild,

I should spread my wings and soar;

Then I should come a-swooping down

By a wealthy burgher's door.

In his house there dwells a maiden,

She is called fair Magdalene,

And a fairer brown-eyed damsel

All my days I have not seen.

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