European Elegies/Autumn (2)/Wanderer's evensong

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93.WANDERER'S EVENSONG

Over all peaks slow peaceDescends;In every branch the breezeNow endsIts sighing sweep.The birds in the wildwood are sleeping.Cease, heart, thy weeping!—Thou, too shalt sleep.


From the German of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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