THE INDIFFERENT. <br /> <br />COME to the dance with me, come with me, fair one! <br /> <br />Dances a feast-day like this may well crown. <br />If thou my sweetheart art not, thou canst be so, <br /> <br />But if thou wilt not, we still will dance on. <br />Come to the dance with me, come with me, fair one! <br /> <br />Dances a feast-day like this may well crown. <br /> <br />THE TENDER. <br /> <br />Loved one, without thee, what then would all feast be? <br /> <br />Sweet one, without thee, what then were the dance? <br />If thou my sweetheart wert not, I would dance not. <br /> <br />If thou art still so, all life is one feast. <br />Loved one, without thee, what then would all feasts be? <br /> <br />Sweet one, without thee, what then were the dance? <br /> <br />THE INDIFFERENT. <br /> <br />Let them but love, then, and leave us the dancing! <br /> <br />Languishing love cannot bear the glad dance. <br />Let us whirl round in the waltz's gay measure, <br /> <br />And let them steal to the dim-lighted wood. <br />Let them but love, then, and leave us the dancing! <br /> <br />Languishing love cannot bear the glad dance. <br /> <br />THE TENDER. <br /> <br />Let them whirl round, then, and leave us to wander! <br /> <br />Wand'ring to love is a heavenly dance. <br />Cupid, the near one, o'erhears their deriding, <br /> <br />Vengeance takes suddenly, vengeance takes soon. <br />Let them whirl round, then, and leave us to wander! <br /> <br />Wand'ring to love is a heavenly dance.<br /><br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/reciprocal-invitation-to-the-dance/
