0 REMAIN DEAR ONE..

"O remain, dear one, I love you, 
Stay with me in my fair land, 
For your dreamings and longings 
Only I can understand.
 

You, who like a prince reclining 
O'er the pool with heaven starred; 
You who gaze up from the water 
With such earnest deep regard.
 

Stay, for where the lapping wavelets 
Shake the tall and tasseled grass, 
I will make you hear in secret 
How the furtive chamois pass.
 

Oh, I see you wrapped in magic, 
Hear your murmur low and sweet, 
As you break the shallow water 
With your slender naked feet; 

See you thus amidst the ripples 
Which the moon's pale beams engage, 
And your years seem but an instant, 
And each instant seems an age.
" 

Thus spake the woods in soft entreaty; 
Arching boughs above me bent, 
But I whistled high, and laughing 
Out into the open went.
 

Now though e'en I roamed that country 
How could I its charm recall.
.
.
 
Where has boyhood gone, I wonder, 
With its pool and woods and all? 
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English version by Corneliu M.
 Popescu
Transcribed by Gabriela Brancovici
School No.
 10, Focsani, Romania

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