A Fantastic Ballad
1
"You in the sunshine,Mannikin,Will you be the Flower King?
Ever runs your courage high,Tinge us with your blood's red dye!"
2
"Flower bright and flower pale,You've drunk my blood and drunk it deep.
Now my kingdom without fail!
In calyx,in calyx let me steep!"
3
"Sweet your blood was,Little Man,Show your deep little heart,if you can.
If our King you would become,Your heart must glisten in the sun."
4
"My heart,my heart beats high and true,shines forth fairly in my gaze.
If I gave up my heart to you,Never again I'll feast my eyes."
5
"Mannikin,we'll jump and rest,All of us,inside your breast.
Let your heart shine in the sun,Flower King you shall become!"
6
He starts,he thinks,that Mannikin,He tears his breast rosered apart.
"Give me sceptre,give me crown,Take,O take my deep little heart!"
7
"You in the sunshine,Mannikin,Cannot be the Flower King.
No more your rosered blood can spurt,For us must glow your deep little heart."
8
The Mannikin plucks out his eyes,Digs himself a hole deep down,Digs his own deep grave,and lies Buried,buried underground.
