From the German by William Warren Caldwell
A CHILD sleeps under a rose-bush fair,
The buds swell out in the soft May air;
Sweetly it rests, and on dream-wings flies
To play with the angels in Paradise.
And the years glide by.
A Maiden stands...
From the German by John Sullivan Dwight
THREE students were travelling over the Rhine;
They stopped when they came to the landlady’s sign;
“Good landlady, have you good beer and wine?
And where is that dear little daughter of thine?”
“My beer and wine are...
