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HIS OWN TRUE WIFE, by                    
First Line: Hidden lovers' woes
Last Line: Love so sweet bestows in all men's sight his own true wife!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolfram Von Eschonbach
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HIDDEN lovers' woes
Thou wast wont to sing ere dawn arose:
Bitter parting after raptured meetings.
Whosoever love and lady's greeting
So received that he was torn
From her breast by fear of men,
Thou wouldst sing him counsel, when
Shone the star of morn.
Warder, sing it now no more, lay by thy bugle-horn!
He to whom is given
Not to be from love by morning riven—
Whom the watchers think not to beleaguer,
Hath no need to be alert and eager
To avert the peril rife
In the day: his rest is pure,
Not a warder makes secure
His unhappy life.
Love so sweet bestows in all men's sight his own true wife!





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