Early spring
Josephine Lang
Days of joy,
Have you come so soon?
To give me the sun,
Hill and Forest?
Amply flow
the brooklets again,
Are those meadows?
Is this a valley?
Under the greenery's
Blooming, thriving effort
The little bees dine,
Humming, on nectar.
Colorful plumage
Rustles in the grove,
Heavenly songs
Resound therein!
Powerfully stirs
a breath of air,
Yet it loses
itself in a bush.
But to the bosom
It turns back,
Help me, o Muses,
To bear this happiness!
Gentle movements
shake in the fresh air,
the lovely stirring
Of sleepy fragrance.
Tell me how, since yesterday,
it happened to me,
lovely sisters -
My sweetheart is there!