"Da steht im Wald geschrieben
Ein stilles, ernstes Wort
Von rechtem Tun und Lieben,
Und was des Menschen Hort.
Ich habe treu geselen
Die Worte, schlicht und wahr,
Und durch mein ganzes Wese
Ward's unausprechlich klar."
It is written in the forest,
A quiet, impressive statement
Of how to live and love aright
and what man's treasure is.
I have carefully read
These words, simple and true,
And throughout my whole being
What they say became ineffably clear
from Abschied (Farewell), by Joseph von Eichendorff, from the Penguin Book of German Verse, Edited and translated by Leonard Forster, 1957, pg. 311. translation modified with Google Translate.
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