Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PARTING AND RETURN: 2, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON


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PARTING AND RETURN: 2, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid waves there gleams the pallid strand
Last Line: Like echoes on my way I meet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von


'Mid waves there gleams the pallid strand;
Afar through blurring tears is seen
The seacoast of my fatherland.
Exhausted, by the mast I lean.

The lilacs bloom, the swallows stray,
The starlings' chatter fills the air,
The organ-grinder grinds his lay,
The wind's light kiss is on my hair.

Before the guardhouse soldiers stand,
And arm in arm laugh damsels young,
While from the school there pours a band
That frolics in my native tongue.

My heart cries out in rapture wild,
Rejoicing my old home to greet,
And all I lived with as a child
Like echoes on my way I meet.





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