IN SUMMER - by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

IN SUMMER by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How plain and height With dewdrops are bright ! How pearls have crown'd The plants all around ! How sighs the breeze Thro' thicket and trees ! How loudly in the sun's clear rays The sweet birds carol forth their lays ! But, ah ! above, Where saw I my love, Within her room, Small, mantled in gloom, Enclosed around, Where sunlight was drown'd, How little there was earth to me, With all its beauteous majesty !