The Nibelungenlied
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“Ah, let alone such counsel,

my mother dear, I pray!

By many a woman’s witness

’tis proven, clear as day,

How heart’s delight too often

with sorrow sore is paid;⁠—

Lest such mischance befall me,

I’ll shun them both,” she said.