And in your dream imagine nothing for yourself

Victor von Woikowsky-Biedau

And in your dream imagine nothing for yourself

for you are too young for me.

About your chin hardly any down yet sprouts:

it is not enough for me.

If I get married,

I must marry a rider on a horse,

twice as tall and broad as you,

his beard two ells long.

His black steed bolts with the wind's course,

his beard, it blankets me

as I sit before him on the knob of the saddle,

and off to the kitchens for you!