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)

PIERRE p'AUVERGNE. 243

If aught of goodness or of grace

Be mine, hers is the glory ;
She led me on in wisdom's path,

And set the light before me :
In her I joy, in her I sing,

If ever, pleasantly ;
The sweetness there is not my own,

But hers in whom I joy.

PIERRE D'AUVERGNE.

Pierre d'Auvergne was a Troubadour of some
note at the beginning of the 13th century. When the
following translation was made, the original had not
been published ; but it has since appeared in " Le
Parnasse Occitanien," and also in M. Raynouard's
fifth volume. Our version was formed from Millot's
prose translation, and will be found materially to
abridge the prolixity of the original; but it represents
the burden of the song tolerably well, and is there-
fore left as it is.

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