True love lingers long

True love lingers long,

Outlives many an hour,

And no doubts will make it shrink;

Always will its spirits remain healthy.

They menace it in thick hordes,

Promoting vacillating doubt,

Storm and Death, these dangers

true blood opposes with Love.

And, like mist, starts back

What has held captive the senses,

And to the merry gaze of spring

the wide world opens itself.

Achieved,

Mastered,

by Love is Happiness,

Vanished

are those hours,

but back again they fly,

And blissful delight,

becomes quiet

and fills

the intoxicated, throbbing, joyful breast;

They part

from pain

forever,

and never

will this lovely, ecstatic, heavenly joy disappear!