Breeze of Autumn
Carl Theodor Emanuel, Freiherr von Perfall
Heart, so old now and still not wise,
do you hope day by day that the fruit
which shining spring didn't bear for you
will be brought to you yet by autumn?
The rippling wind doesn't leave off the shrub -
always flattering, fondling,
roses enfold its breezes in the morning;
in the evening it scatters the roses.
The rippling wind doesn't leave off the shrub
untill he cleares it completely.
All, my heart, is a wind and a breeze
that we have loved and rhymed.