Taylor, Edgar [Hrsg.]; Austin, Sarah [Hrsg.]: 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)

260 TRO UVERES.

Et la mauviz qui commence a tenth-,
Et li douz sons dou ruissel de gravele

Que je voi resclaircir,

Me font resouvenir
De la ou tuit mi bon desir
Sont, et seront, jusqu'au morir.

The first approach of the sweet spring

Returning here once more,—
The memory of the love that holds

In my fond heart such power,—
The thrush again his song essaying,—
The little rills o'er pebbles playing,

And sparkling as they fall,—

The memory recall
Of her on whom my heart's desire
Is—shall be—fix'd till I expire.

With every season fresh and new

That love is more inspiring :
Her eyes, her face, all bright with joy,—

Her coming, her retiring,—
Her faithful words,—her winning ways,—
That sweet look, kindling up the blaze

Of love, so gently still,

To wound, but not to kill,—
So that when most I weep and sigh,
So much the higher springs my joy.