I hear my sweetheart

Arno Kleffel

I hear my sweetheart -

The hammer he swings -

The rustling, the clinking,

Comes to me from afar,

Like the sound of bells,

Through streets and squares.

By the black fireplace

There my lover sits;

But if I pass by,

The bellows then whistle,

And the flames roar

And glow around him.