My good, noble Siegebert.

When'er Death from here should take me,

I could never hope to find him;

And for him my heart is yearning.

In the woods I must be buried,

Where the mandrake grows 'neath fir-trees

Which with mistletoe are covered.

I don't wish a cross on my grave,

Shall not envy it to others."

On that very day, however,