by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836)

Der zürnenden Diana
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA
Ja, spanne nur den Bogen, mich zu tödten,
Du himmlisch Weib! im zornigen Erröthen
Noch reitzender. Ich werd' es nie bereuen:

Daß ich dich sah am buschigen Gestade
Die Nymphen überragen in dem Bade;
Der Schönheit Funken in die Wildniß streuen.

Den Sterbenden wird noch dein Bild erfreuen.
Er athmet reiner, athmet freyer,
Wem du gestrahlet ohne Schleyer.

Dein Pfeil, er traf - doch linde rinnen
Die warmen Wellen aus der Wunde:
Noch zittert vor den matten Sinnen
Des Schauens süße letzte Stunde.

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Johann Mayrhofer. Wien. Bey Friedrich Volke. 1824, page 158. Note: contemporary German would change the following spellings: "tödten" -> "töten", "Erröthen" -> "Erröten", "athmet" -> "atmet", "freyer" -> "freier", "Schleyer" -> "Schleier".

Please note: the title of this poem is not a mistake, as many have written to tell us. "Der" is the feminine dative case of the definite article; and the adjective that follows uses the proper matching weak-inflection ending.


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