The woods are green with branches
And sweet with nightingales,
With gold and blue and scarlet
All flowered are the dales.
Sweet it is to wander
In a place of trees,
Sweeter to pluck roses
And the fleur-de-lys.
But dalliance with a lovely lass
Far surpasseth these.
Fronde nemus induitur
iam canit philomena
cum variis coloribus
iam prata sunt amena,
spatiari dulce est
per loca nemorosa,
dulcius est carpere
lilia cum rosa,
dulcissimum est ludere
cum virgine formosa.
(Source- Mediaeval Latin Lyrics by Helen Waddell -Constable and Co-first published 1929)
AUGUST MACKE: “MÄDCHEN UNTER BÄUMEN”
