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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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3°<br />

The pale half-moon of autumn<br />

Through clouds peers doubtfully.<br />

Within the lonely churchyard<br />

The parsonage I see.<br />

The mother reads in her Bible,<br />

The son at the light doth gaze;<br />

One drowsy daughter is nodding.<br />

While another speaks and says:<br />

"Ah me! how dreary the days are!<br />

How dull, and dark, and mean!<br />

Only when there's a funeral<br />

Is anything to be seen."<br />

The mother looks from her Bible:<br />

"Nay, only four in all<br />

Have died since thy father was buried<br />

Without by the churchyard wall."<br />

Ill

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