"Nun will euch Hülfe bringen Der gnadenreiche Tod. Den müßt ihr freundlich grüßen. Dann wird er freundlich auch Und kehrt in Lust das Büssen."

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Fantasy authorsPoets from Germany
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Sintram und seine Gefährten (1815) ch. 20. Translated as Sintram and His Companions, "Pilgrim Song", st. 3. The translation of Fouqué's other romance Undine is attributed to Thomas Tracy in Undine, and Sintram and His Companions (NY: Wiley and Putnam, 1845). Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 11th ed. (1937) p. 1063, note, attributes the translation of Sintram to Tracy