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 spirit

He resoled

Only impelled him

Too full of tricks

His head swam with the swelling

Again cloudless

In quest of her

She sang the following verse with the warbling sweetness of a bird

Touch your heart

Forgetting her waywardness

Undine at the knights feet on the grass

My enterprise before me

And rushed furiously forward with me

Arrested my horses course 

In the fewest words

You miserable thing

Measureless abyss 

Are you angry at my remaining?

The love of home

Grown upon the graves

The sad recollections 

Those unspeakably sweet feelings

Pour upon

He then pronounced a few solemn words of the ceremony, and made them one.