SLEEPING THEY BEAR ME

by: Alfred Mombert (1872-1942)

LEEPING they bear me

Into my homeland.

From far away I come,

Hither over peaks and chasms

Over a dark ocean

Into my homeland.

 

Now that I have quelled the strongest of the giants,

Out of the darkest land

Won my way home,

Led by a white fairy hand--

 

Echo heavy the bells.

And I stagger through the streets

Sleep-bound.

 

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY JETHRO BITHELL

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