Legends of the Rhine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Legends of the Rhine

The Rhine! That little word will be
For aye a spell of power to me,
And conjure up, in care's despite,
A thousand visions of delight:
The Rhine! Oh! where beneath the sun
Doth our fair river's rival run
Where dawns the day upon a stream
Can in such changeful beauty shine
Outstripping Fancy's wildest dream,
Like our green, glancing, glorious Rhine.

Born where blooms the Alpine rose,
Cradled in the Bodensee,
Forth the infant river flows,
Leaping on in childish glee.
Coming to a riper age,
He crowns his rocky cup with wine,
And makes a gallant pilgrimage
To many a ruined tower and shrine.
Strong, and swift, and wild, and brave,
On he speeds with crested wave;
And spurning aught like check or stay,
Fights and foams along his way
O'er crag and shoal until his flood
Boils like manhood's hasty blood.

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