Early Works of Karl Marx: Book of Verse
"Why gaze you towards the cliff-wail there,
What do you softly sigh?"
"The sun sinks glowing through the air,
Kissing the cliff good-bye.
"And this before you've never seen
The sun's orb slowly scale
The morning sky, and then from noon
Sink down into the vale?"
"Indeed I have, indeed that glow
In crimson folds throbbed burning,
Until its Eye, being loth to go,
Dwelt on her in its yearning.
"We walked in peace. By her footfall
The echoing cliffs were captured.
The light wind gently kissed her shawl,
Soft spoke her eyes, enraptured.
"And sick with love, I lisped a-sighing;
She trembled, rosy red.
I pressed her heart, down sank the dying
Sun, star-cosseted.
"That draws me to the cliff-wall there,
That's what I softly sigh.
She waves far off as evening fire,
She bows as from on high."