“Yet could I these two days have spent,
While still the autumn sweetly shone,
Ah, me! I might have died content
When I had looked on Carcassonne.”

Stanza 2.
Carcassonne, (c. 1887; with translation by John Reuben Thompson)

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songwriter 1820–1893

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