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ALEXANDER KISFALUDY.

I. DAL. 13.

Boldog vagy te, czifra madar!



Thee I envied, joyous bird!
Singing love-songs in the dell
To thy mate: each note I heard
Seem'd with joy and truth to swell.
I have also songs, which sweetly
Tell the tale of love—yet fall
Unobserved, however meetly
Answering beauty's fancied call.
Happy bird! that singst love's joy—
I, its sorrows, its annoy—
Would I had th' alternative,
For thy song my soul to give!