THE MODERN AMADIS

by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

HEY kept me guarded close, while yet

A little tiny elf,

And so I sat, and did beget

A world within myself,

All I cared to see.

 

Golden fancy then unfurled

Endless sights to me,

And a gallant knight I grew;

Like the Prince Pipi,

Roamed throughout the world.

 

Many a crystal palace saw,

Many overthrew;

My far-flashing falchion hurled

Through the dragon's maw.

Ha! then I was a man!

 

Next I freed in knightly wise

The Princess Periban;

Oh, the wonder of her eyes,

Smiling, as I wooed

Her with hearted sighs!

 

Her kiss, it was ambrosial food,

Glowed like noble wine;

With love, oh, I was almost dead!

A golden haze divine

She around her shed.

 

Who has torn her from my sight?

Can no spell delay

That dear vision, stay her flight?

Where her home, oh, say?

And thither, which the way?

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