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Song for a Sleeping Lover
- Rise up, beloved, who on cold mornings sleeps;
- love is what all the world's birds were saying –
- I'm a happy soul.
- Rise up, beloved, who sleeps on mornings cold;
- love is what all the world's birds were singing –
- I'm a happy soul.
- Love is what all the world's birds were saying;
- they had my love and yours in mind -
- I'm a happy soul.
- Love is what all the world's birds were singing;
- their songs proclaimed my love and yours -
- I'm a happy soul.
- They had my love and yours in mind;
- you took away from them their branches -
- I'm a happy soul.
- Their songs proclaimed my love and yours;
- you took the branches where they perched –
- I'm a happy soul.
- You took away from them their branches;
- you dried the fountains where they drank –
- I'm a happy soul.
- You took the branches where they perched;
- you dried the fountains where they bathed –
- I'm a happy soul.
[English version by Richard Zenith]
