Von Alfred Lord Tennyson
aus Mariana
With blackest moss the flower-plots
Were thickly crusted, one and all:
The rusted nails fell from the knots
That held the pear to the gable-wall.
The broken sheds looked sad an strange:
Unifted was the clinking latch;
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch
Upon the lonely moated grange.
She only said, My life is dreary,
He cometh not, she said;
She said, I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I were dead!
Her tears fell with the dews at even;
Her tears fell ere the dews were dried;
She could not look on the sweet heaven,
Either at morn or eventide.
After the flitting of the bats,
When thickest dark did trance the sky,
She drew her casement-curtain by,
Ande glanced athwart the glooming flats.
She only said, The night is dreary,
He cometh not, she said;
She said, I am awearx, aweary,
I would that I were dead! ...
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