Ambiguous Identities : A knot of dried up roots (8-12)

8               Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
9               With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
10             And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
11             And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
12             Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch