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Aus der Jugendzeit; Historie von der schönen Lau

Chapter 34: Gesang Weylas.
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A compact collection pairs lyrical poems with a short narrative, tracing youthful memory, tender longing, and rural reverie. Brief lyrics render dawn, wind, winter mornings, and private encounters in musical, concise language, while occasional homely admonitions and dialogues offer sober advice and social observation. Pastoral imagery and folk motifs infuse courtship, nostalgia, and playful scenes with mythic resonance. The longer prose piece complements the poems by folding legend and romance into the same tonal world, producing a quietly reflective portrait of early feeling, imagination, and the consolations of nature.

Gesang Weylas.

Du bist Orplid, mein Land!
Das ferne leuchtet;
vom Meere dampfet dein besonnter Strand
den Nebel, so der Götter Wange feuchtet.

Uralte Wasser steigen
verjüngt um deine Hüften, Kind!
vor deiner Gottheit beugen
sich Könige, die deine Wärter sind.