Just like your beautiful long hair, <br />my thoughts have now become entangled, <br />inside my mind, so many years <br />have passed and they will never leave. <br />It is their home, and I do need <br />that you shall know that no sweet maiden <br />could ever touch my heart of hearts. <br />What must not be is what Ye Gods <br />do not allow, no greater love <br />has sought its home inside my soul. <br />Like on the ridge, the Lorelei <br />down here I stand, in my distress <br />with all my truth, not of myself, <br />no Gods may understand it now. <br />For me there was no other love <br />in this, my life. 'Twas only you.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/maedchen-an-der-schwalm-english-version/
