I fear no ghosts

I fear no ghosts,

no witches, no fairies -

and love, in their deep

glowing eyes to gaze.

By the forest in the green

eerie lake,

there lives a night-witch

who is as white as snow.

She hates my beauty's

innocent trappings;

when I go past late at night,

so she scolds me.

Earlier, when in the moonlight

I stood at the forest lake,

she rose up without her veil,

without all her robes.

Her limbs were bathed

in the day-bright night;

heaven was drunk

with hellish splendor.

But I uncovered

my living breast;

and then, with shame,

she had to sink!