The Last Knight : a Romance Garland.
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what may its meaning be ?
Would you for once in your life-time look on a land that is free ?
Would you exchange the sceptre for a simple shepherd's stave, Or in the soil of Freedom would you haply find a grave ?
From a lofty Alpine summit look down upon this land, It lies there like a volume all written by God's hand, The mountains are the letters, as leaves the fields unroll.
Saint Gothard is only an asterisk in this gigantic scroll.
Know you what there is written .■' Oh, see it beams so brigh...t.
Freedom stands there, ye princes ! can ye read the page aright ?
No chancellor engross'd it, it is no parchment chart, And the red that burns in the signet is the blood of a people's heart.
96 KNIGHTS AND FREEMEN.
Behold the mighty mountain — the Monk in the country hight, — Around his brow the eagle sweeps in its heavenward flight ; His cowl is of rock, and the snow-crown becomes his temples well, His prayer-book the starry heavens, the universe his cell.
When a Monk appears, there surely can be no lack of preaching, In the thunder of the avalanche, in the cataract he is teaching ; Freedom !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
what may its meaning be ?
Would you for once in your life-time look on a land that is free ?
Would you exchange the sceptre for a simple shepherd's stave, Or in the soil of Freedom would you haply find a grave ?
From a lofty Alpine summit look down upon this land, It lies there like a volume all written by God's hand, The mountains are the letters, as leaves the fields unroll.
Saint Gothard is only an asterisk in this gigantic scroll.
Know you what there is written .■' Oh, see it beams so brigh...t.
Freedom stands there, ye princes ! can ye read the page aright ?
No chancellor engross'd it, it is no parchment chart, And the red that burns in the signet is the blood of a people's heart.
96 KNIGHTS AND FREEMEN.
Behold the mighty mountain — the Monk in the country hight, — Around his brow the eagle sweeps in its heavenward flight ; His cowl is of rock, and the snow-crown becomes his temples well, His prayer-book the starry heavens, the universe his cell.
When a Monk appears, there surely can be no lack of preaching, In the thunder of the avalanche, in the cataract he is teaching ; Freedom !
What to read after The Last Knight : a Romance Garland.?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Anastasius Grün to read onlineMoreLess
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