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Title: The King of Thule Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [More Titles by Goethe] [This ballad is also introduced in Faust, where it is sung by Margaret.]
Still faithful to the grave, A golden goblet gave. Beyond all price he deem'd it, He quaff'd it at each feast; His tears to flow ne'er ceas'd. And when he felt death near him, His cities o'er he told, But not that cup of gold. A regal banquet held he In his ancestral ball, 'Mongst his great nobles all. There stood the aged reveller, And drank his last life's-glow, Into the flood below. He saw it falling, filling, And sinking 'neath the main, He never drank again. 1774. -THE END- GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |