BEGEGNUNG
What a storm it was last night,
raging until the morning!
How that unprayed-for broom
swept clean the chimneys and the streets!
There comes a maiden along the street
who, half-scared, glances around her;
like roses that the wind blows wild,
so her face's glow fluctuates.
A handsome boy steps up toward her:
he wants to approach her, full of delight:
how joyful and embarrassed
seems this unaccustomed rogue!
He appears to ask, whether his sweetheart
has put to right her braids,
which last night in her open chamber
a storm brought into disorder.
The lad still dreams of the kisses
which that sweet girl exchanged with him;
and he stands, overcome by her charm,
while away she rushes, around the corner.