Undine
Nixies, water~spirits Weeping bitterly because of the want of a soul Beginning to shrink the unearthly creature to something of his own flesh and blood Half shy, half trusting Neither fearing nor devising evil He was forced to believe that no evil could be feared from an appearance so pleasing Knit his brows You may think her frolics very delightful, but to have her dancing about you the whole day long, and to never hear her speak one word of sense And a fair girl, of wondrous beauty, sprang laughing in In fixed astonishment Charmed with her graceful figure and viewed her lovely features I come out of the forest, you lovely little vision Hard to withdraw his gaze from her wild emotion, gentleness & beauty Hearts of anxiety, our eyes find no sleep In devout thought Clad in mourning apparel The watery glass For our lost darling again and again Water dripping from her golden hair Eyes blue and bright as the sea or sky A new ascendancy over him All owing to her sportive and wayward spi...
