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Translations. -The Dream. (From Uhland.)

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In a garden sweet went walking      Two lovers hand in hand;     Two pallid figures, low talking,      They sat in the flowery land.     They kissed on the cheek one another,      And they kissed upon the mouth;     They held in their arms each the other,      And back came their health and youth.     Two little bells rang shrilly--      And the lovely dream was dead!     She lay in the cloister chilly;      He afar on his dungeon-bed.

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