Taylor, Edgar [Editor]; Austin, Sarah [Editor]: Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: Illustr. by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe ; With histor. and crit. notes, and engravings from the ms. of the minnesingers in the king's library at Paris, and from other sources (London, 1825)

182 MINNESINGERS.

THE THURINGIAN.

It has been supposed that this poet, to whom the
epithet " der Diuring " is given, was the Landgrave
of Thuringia himself, the celebrated patron of the
Minnesingers at the commencement of the 13th cen-
tury. Others have suspected him to be the same as
Christian von Lupin.

Dii lieben zit von hinnan muos;

Der voglin gruos
Entwichen ist von sender not; &c.

The pleasant season must away,

The song of birds no more
Must echo from the verdant spray,

Chill frost asserts its power ;
Where now is gone thy bloom,

Thy flowers so fair ?
The verdant pride of mead and grove,
The leaf-crown'd forest, where ?
In the whitening frost their bloom is lost,
And gone are their joys as the things that were.