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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409864" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Walter Von Der Vogel Weid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vogelweid the Minnesinger,<br> When he left this world of ours,<br>Laid his body in the cloister,<br> Under Wurtzburg's minster towers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he gave the monks his treasures,<br> Gave them all with this behest:<br>They should feed the birds at noontide<br> Daily on his place of rest;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saying, &quot;From these wandering minstrels<br> I have learned the art of song;<br>Let me now repay the lessons<br> They have taught so well and long.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus the bard of love departed;<br> And, fulfilling his desire,<br>On his tomb the birds were feasted<br> By the children of the choir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Day by day, o'er tower and turret,<br> In foul weather and in fair,<br>Day by day, in vaster numbers,<br> Flocked the poets of the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the tree whose heavy branches<br> Overshadowed all the place,<br>On the pavement, on the tombstone,<br> On the poet's sculptured face,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the cross-bars of each window,<br> On the lintel of each door,<br>They renewed the War of Wartburg,<br> Which the bard had fought before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There they sang their merry carols,<br> Sang their lauds on every side;<br>And the name their voices uttered<br> Was the name of Vogelweid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till at length the portly abbot<br> Murmured, &quot;Why this waste of food?<br>Be it changed to loaves henceforward<br> For our tasting brotherhood.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then in vain o'er tower and turret,<br> From the walls and woodland nests,<br>When the minster bells rang noontide,<br> Gathered the unwelcome guests.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then in vain, with cries discordant,<br> Clamorous round the Gothic spire,<br>Screamed the feathered Minnesingers<br> For the children of the choir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time has long effaced the inscriptions<br> On the cloister's funeral stones,<br>And tradition only tells us<br> Where repose the poet's bones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But around the vast cathedral,<br> By sweet echoes multiplied,<br>Still the birds repeat the legend,<br> And the name of Vogelweid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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 When he left this world of ours,
Laid his body in the cloister,
 Under Wurtzburg's minster towers.

And he gave the monks his treasures,
 Gave them all with this behest:
They should feed the birds at noontide
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