11. Mine!

Moderately fast

Little brook, let your gushing be!
Wheels, cease your roaring!
All you merry woodbirds,
Large and small,
End your melodies!
Through the grove,
Out and in,
Let only one song be heard today:
The beloved millermaid is mine!
Mine!
Spring, are all of those your flowers?
Sun, have you no brighter shine?
Ah, so I must be all alone
With my blissful word,
incomprehensible to all of Creation!

Die schone Mullerin by Wilhelm Muller
music by Franz Schubert Op. 25