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I like it very much - - very evocative imagery - mysterious and melancholic. If you have not heard it - you may like Schubert's setting of the 8th stanza to song - amazingly beautiful! Available on Naxos label: Schubet Lied Edition- vol. 18
It is an amazingly beautiful song - the mood is longing and lonely beyond words.
Jim
.. further to Mr. Devin's comment: if one knows about poets and Friedrich Schiller, one knows that his native writing language was German. As translations go, though, this is adequate although not very inspiring when compared to the original text.