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In the pleasant time of Pentecost, / By the little river Kyll, / I followed the angler's winding path / Or waded the stream at will. / And the friendly fertile German land / Lay round me green and still.
But all day long on the eastern bank / Of the river cool and clear, / Where the curving track of the double rails / Was hardly seen though near, / The endless trains of German troops / Went rolling down to Trier.