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Eifersüchtig, sie forscht meinem Geheimnisse nach.?Doch es ist ein altes Gesetz: ich schweig und verehre:?Denn der K?nige Zwist bü?ten die Griechen wie ich.
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Zieret St?rke den Mann und freies mutiges Wesen,?O! so ziemet ihm fast tiefes Geheimnis noch mehr.?St?dtebezwingerin du, Verschwiegenheit! Fürstin der V?lker! Teure G?ttin, die mich sicher durchs Leben geführt,?Welches Schicksal erfahr ich! Es l?set scherzend die Muse,?Amor l?set, der Schalk, mir den verschlossenen Mund.?Ach, schon wird es so schwer, der K?nige Schande verbergen! Weder die Krone bedeckt, weder ein phrygischer Bund?Midas verl?ngertes Ohr: der n?chste Diener entdeckt es,?Und ihm ?ngstet und drückt gleich das Geheimnis die Brust,?In die Erde vergrüb er es gern, um sich zu erleichtern;?Doch die Erde verwahrt solche Geheimnisse nicht,?Rohre sprie?en hervor und rauschen und lispeln im Winde:?Midas! Midas, der Fürst tr?gt ein verl?ngertes Ohr!?Schwerer wird es nun mir, ein sch?nes Geheimnis zu wahren,?Ach, den Lippen entquillt Fülle des Herzens so leicht!?Keiner Freundin darfs ich vertraun: sie m?chte mich schelten; Keinem Freunde: vielleicht br?chte der Freund mir Gefahr.?Mein Entzücken dem Hain, den schallenden Felsen zu sagen,?Bin ich endlich nicht jung, bin ich nicht einsam genug.?Dir, Hexameter, dir, Pentameter, sei es vertrauet,?Wie sie des Tags mich erfreut, wie sie des Nachts mich beglückt. Sie, von vielen M?nnern gesucht, vermeidet die Schlingen,?Die ihr der Kühnere frech, heimlich der Listige legt;?Klug und zierlich schlüpft sie vorbei und kennet die Wege,?Wo sie der Liebste gewi? lauschend begierig empf?ngt.?Zaudre, Luna, sie kommt! damit sie der Nachbar nicht sehe;?Rausche, Lüftchen, im Laub! niemand vernehme den Tritt.?Und ihr, wachset und blüht, geliebte Lieder, und wieget?Euch im leisesten Hauch lauer und liebender Luft,?Und entdeckt den Quiriten, wie jene Rohre geschw?tzig,?Eines glücklichen Paars sch?nes Geheimnis zuletzt.
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