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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Song: ‘No thanks to Tristan that his heart had been’

By Heinrich von Veldeke (c. 1140–50–c. 1190)

Translation of Edgar Taylor

NO thanks to Tristan that his heart had been

Faithful and true unto his queen;

For thereto did a potion move

More than the power of love:

Sweet thought to me,

That ne’er such cup my lips have prest;

Yet deeper love than ever he

Conceived, dwells in my breast:

So may it be!

So constant may it rest!

Call me but thine

As thou art mine!