The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1772. ----- THE DESTRUCTION OF MAGDEBURG.
The women sorrow sore. The maidens far, far more. The living are no virgins more; Thus Tilly's troops make war! ----- ------ What we sing in company Soon from heart to heart will fly. ----- THE Gesellige Lieder, which I have angicisled as above, as several of them cannot be called convivial songs, are separated by Goethe from his other songs, and I have adhered to the same arrangement. The Ergo bibamus is a well-known drinking song in Germany, where it enjoys vast popularity.
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