• Anonymous Translation from the German

    METHINKS it were no pain to die
    On such an eve, when such a sky
        O’er-canopies the west;
    To gaze my fill on yon calm deep,
    And, like an infant, fall asleep
        On Earth, my mother’s breast.

    There ’s peace and welcome in yon sea
    Of endless blue tranquillity:
        These clouds are...