Translations. - Legend. (from Goethe.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGG HHIIJJKLMMNNOPQJRS TUVVFFWWNNII XLYVZZA2A2WB2NNC2C2D 2D2OOHE2F2F2| AFTER THE MANNER OF HANS SACHS | A |
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| While yet unknown and very low | B |
| Our Lord on earth went to and fro | B |
| And some of his scholars his word so good | C |
| Very strangely misunderstood | C |
| He much preferred to hold his court | D |
| In streets and places of resort | D |
| Because under the heaven's face | E |
| Words better and freer flow apace | E |
| There he gave them the highest lore | F |
| Out of his holy mouth in store | F |
| Wondrously by parable and example | G |
| Made every market place a temple | G |
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| So faring in his heart content | H |
| Once with them to a town he went | H |
| Saw something blinking on the way | I |
| And there a broken horse shoe lay | I |
| He said thereon St Peter to | J |
| Prithee now pick up that shoe | J |
| St Peter was not in fitting mood | K |
| He had been dreaming all the road | L |
| Some stuff about ruling of the world | M |
| Round which so many brains are twirled | M |
| For in the head it seems so easy | N |
| And with it his thoughts were often busy | N |
| Therefore the finding was much too mean | O |
| Crown and sceptre it should have been | P |
| He was not one his back to bow | Q |
| After half an iron shoe | J |
| Therefore aside his head he bended | R |
| And that he had not heard pretended | S |
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| In his forbearance the Lord did stoop | T |
| And lift himself the horse shoe up | U |
| Then for the present he did wait | V |
| But when they reach the city gate | V |
| He goes up to a blacksmith's door | F |
| Receives three pence the horse shoe for | F |
| And as they through the market fare | W |
| Seeing for sale fine cherries there | W |
| He buys of them so few or so many | N |
| As they will give for a three penny | N |
| Which he thereon after his way | I |
| Up in his sleeve did quietly lay | I |
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| Now from the other gate they trod | X |
| Through fields and meads a housless road | L |
| The path of trees was desolate | Y |
| The sun shone out the heat was great | V |
| So that one in a region such | Z |
| For a drink of water had given much | Z |
| The Lord goes ever before them all | A2 |
| And as by chance lets a cherry fall | A2 |
| In a trice St Peter was after it there | W |
| As if a golden apple it were | B2 |
| Sweet to his palate was the berry | N |
| Then by and by another cherry | N |
| Down on the ground the Master sends | C2 |
| For which St Peter as quickly bends | C2 |
| So many a time the Lord doth let | D2 |
| Him bend his back a cherry to get | D2 |
| A long time thus He let him glean | O |
| Then said the Lord with look serene | O |
| If at the right time thou hadst bent | H |
| Thou hadst found it more convenient | E2 |
| Of little things who little doth make | F2 |
| For lesser things must trouble take | F2 |
George Macdonald
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