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Stachus is an area of central Munich, where there's a lovely memorial to the Bavarian composer Richard Strauss.

Richard Strauss Fountain, Stachus

Screen_shot_2017-12-05_at_08.50.24by Patrick Howse22 Sep 2015

Water falls singing
In curtains of
Silver and diamond.

A young eagle
Circles high above
In pure blue sky.

People hurry past,
Alive in a poem
They won't read.