Robert Reinick: “Where Still Shadows Fall”

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Excerpt, “Ballads from the German.” Edinburgh: 1864. Translator: Henry Inglis.

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moon song.

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Where Still Shadows Fall.

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Come in the still night,

Thou dearest and best!

Tis long since the sunlight

Has sunk to its rest.

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Why tarry, my heart?

The starlight is clear!

The moon’s silver crest

Is hastening near.

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See how the moon gleams

On blossoms and spray!

Trust in the moonbeams.

For loyal are they:

What fearest thou? Love come away!

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In dreamy bliss lie

Each floweret and tree

Love only is waking, to gaze upon thee.

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List to the nightingale.

List to my call:

Come, Dearest, come, where still shadows fall.

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, April 30, 2009. Robert Reinick

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