In courtly wise he bent him,
the worthy Rüdeger;
On all sides they were weeping
that such heart-sorrows were
By no one to be mended:—
a dread necessity!
The father of all virtues
in Rüdeger would die.
In courtly wise he bent him,
the worthy Rüdeger;
On all sides they were weeping
that such heart-sorrows were
By no one to be mended:—
a dread necessity!
The father of all virtues
in Rüdeger would die.