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+------ Thema: Full well I know – my Friends – ye look on me (/showthread.php?tid=16595)
Full well I know – my Friends – ye look on me - ZaunköniG - 15.07.2007
Full well I know – my Friends – ye look on me
A living spectre of my Father dead –
Had I not borne his name, had I not fed
On him, as one leaf trembling on a tree,
A woeful waste had been my minstrelsy –
Yet have I sung of maidens newly wed
And I have wished that hearts too sharply bled
Should throb with less of pain, and heave more free
By my endeavour. Still alone I sit
Counting each thought as Miser counts a penny,
Wishing to spend my penny-worth of wit
On antic wheel of fortune like a Zany:
You love me for my sire, to you unknown,
Revere me for his sake, and love me for my own.