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- What a twofold fate
Withheld from my desire!
- So easy seemed to thee
Heart’s delight in the winning,
- When burning woe
- In my heart flamed fierce,
- When terrible anguish
- Wrung my soul,
- When, to save the world
- That I loved, love’s spring
In my tortured heart I imprisoned?
- Against my own self
- When I turned, to my torment,
- From swooning pain
- Arose in a frenzy,
- When a wild longing
- Burning like fire
The fearful design in me woke
In the ruins of my own world
My unending sorrow to bury,
[Somewhat freely.
- Thy heart was lapped
- In blissful delight.
- Trembling with rapture,
- Drunken with joy,
- Thy lips drank laughing
- The draught of love,
While I drank of divine woe
Mixed with wormwood and gall.
[Dryly and shortly.
- By thy lightsome heart
- Henceforth be guided:
From me thou hast turned away!
- I must renounce thee;
- Together no more
Shall we two whisper counsel;
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