“The world is beautiful outside: white, green, and red; but inside it is black and dark as death.”

Diu welt ist ûzen schoene wîz grüen unde rôt
und innân swarzer varwe vinster sam der tôt.
"Owe war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr", line 37; translation from George Fenwick Jones Walther von der Vogelweide (New York: Twayne, 1968) p. 136.

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Diu welt ist ûzen schoene wîz grüen unde rôt und innân swarzer varwe vinster sam der tôt.

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