Im Wasser wogt die Lilie, die blanke,...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: ENG FRE
Im Wasser wogt die Lilie, die blanke, hin und her!
Doch irrst du, Freund, sobald du sagst, sie schwanke hin und her!
Es wurzelt ja so fest ihr Fuß im tiefen Meeresgrund.
Ihr Haupt nur wiegt ein lieblicher Gedanke hin und her!
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Confirmed with Neue Ghaselen von August Graf von Platen, Erlangen: 'gedruckt mit Junge'schen Schriften', 1823, page 55.
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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
The lily, the shining one, undulates back and forth in the water!
Yet you are wrong, my friend, when you aver that she is tottering precariously back and forth!
For her foot is so firmly rooted in the deep seabed;
Only her head, moved by a lovely thought, rocks back and forth!
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Translated titles:
"Ghasele" = "Ghazal"
"Im Wasser wogt die Lilie" = "The lily undulates in the water"
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