"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake."

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Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.

— Walther von der Vogelweide