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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/34050-0.txt b/34050-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7ecd3c --- /dev/null +++ b/34050-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3280 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Konrad Wallenrod by Adam Mickiewicz + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: Konrad Wallenrod + +Author: Adam Mickiewicz + +Release Date: October 9, 2010 [Ebook #34050] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF‐8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KONRAD WALLENROD*** + + + + + + KONRAD WALLENROD. + + An Historical Poem. + + BY + + ADAM MICKIEWICZ. + + _TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH INTO ENGLISH VERSE_ + + BY + + MISS MAUDE ASHURST BIGGS. + + “Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere... + bisogna essere volpe e leone.” + + MACCHIAVELLI, _Il Principe_. + + LONDON: + + TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. + + 1882. + + _[All rights reserved]_ + + + + + +CONTENTS + + +AUTHOR’S PREFACE +TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE +Introduction. +I. The Election. +II. +III. +IV. The Festival. +V. War. +VI. The Parting. +NOTES. + + + + + + + Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co. + + _Edinburgh and London_ + + + + + +AUTHOR’S PREFACE + + +THE Lithuanian nation, formed out of the tribes of the Litwini, Prussians +and Leti, not very numerous, settled in an inextensive country, not very +fertile, long unknown to Europe, was called, about the thirteenth century, +by the incursions of its neighbours, to a more active part. When the +Prussians submitted to the swords of the Teutonic knights, the +Lithuanians, issuing from their forests and marshes, annihilated with +sword and fire the neighbouring empires, and soon became terrible in the +north. History has not as yet satisfactorily explained by what means a +nation so weak, and so long tributary to foreigners, was able all at once +to oppose and threaten all its enemies—on one side, carrying on a constant +and murderous war with the Teutonic Order; on the other, plundering +Poland, exacting tribute from Great Novgorod, and pushing itself as far as +the borders of the Wolga and the Crimean peninsula. The brightest period +of Lithuanian history occurs in the time of Olgierd and Witold, whose rule +extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea. But this monstrous empire, +having sprung up too quickly, could not create in itself internal +strength, to unite and invigorate its differing portions. The Lithuanian +nationality, spread over too large a surface of territory, lost its proper +character. The Litwini subjugated many Russian tribes, and entered into +political relations with Poland. The Slavs, long since Christians, stood +in a higher degree of civilisation, and although conquered, or threatened +by Lithuania, gained by gradual influence a moral preponderance over their +strong, but barbarous tyrants, and absorbed them, as the Chinese their +Tartar invaders. The Jagellons, and their more powerful vassals, became +Poles; many Lithuanian princes adopted the Russian religion, language, and +nationality. By these means the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ceased to be +Lithuanian; the nation proper found itself within its former boundaries, +its speech ceased to be the language of the court and nobility, and was +only preserved among the common people. Litwa presents the singular +spectacle of a people which disappeared in the immensity of its conquests, +as a brook sinks after an excessive overflow, and flows in a narrower bed +than before. + +The circumstances here mentioned are covered by some centuries. Both +Lithuania, and her cruellest enemy, the Teutonic Order, have disappeared +from the scene of political life; the relations between neighbouring +nations are entirely changed; the interests and passions which kindled the +wars of that time are now expired; even popular song has not preserved +their memory. Litwa is now entirely in the past: her history presents from +this circumstance a happy theme for poetry; so that a poet, in singing of +the events of that time, objects only of historic interest, must occupy +himself with searching into, and with artfully rendering the subject, +without summoning to his aid the interests, passions, or fashions of his +readers. For such subjects Schiller recommended poets to seek. + +“Was unsterblich im Gesang will leben, +Muss im Leben untergehen.” + + + + + +TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE + + +THE Teutonic Order, originally, like the Knights Hospitallers, established +in the Holy Land about 1199, settled, after the cessation of the Crusades, +in the country bordering upon the Baltic Sea, at the mouth of the Vistula, +in the year 1225. The possession of the Baltic shores, and of such lands +as the Order should conquer from the pagan Prussians and Litwini, was +assured to them by Konrad, Duke of Masowsze, brother to Leszek the White +of Poland. The fatal error thus committed, in abandoning a hold on the +sea-coast, had afterwards a disastrous effect on the history of Poland. +The Order speedily made themselves masters of the whole country of +Prussia, and were engaged in ceaseless war with the pagans of Lithuania, +under pretext of their conversion; more frequently, it is however to be +feared, for purposes of raid and plunder. It is, in fact, upon record that +a certain Lithuanian prince, who had offered to embrace Christianity for +the purpose of recovering part of his territory conquered by the Order, +upon finding that his conversion would produce no better disposition in +them towards himself, declared his intention of abiding in paganism, with +the remark that he saw it was no question of his faith, but of his +possessions. The plundering expeditions of the Teutonic knights up +country, in which many of the chivalry of all Europe frequently bore a +part, were termed _reyses_. The English reader will remember how Chaucer’s +knight had fought “aboven alle nations in Pruce.” + + “In _Lettow had he reysed_ and in Ruce.” + +Henry IV. also, during his banishment, fought in the ranks of the Order. + +After the conversion of Lithuania, and the union of that country with +Poland, the Teutonic knights were frequently engaged in hostilities with +both powers combined, sustaining in the year 1410 a terrible defeat at +Tannenberg in E. Prussia, from the forces of Jagellon. In this battle it +is worthy of note that the famous John Ziska was engaged. In 1466 Casimir +Jagellon inflicted heavy losses on the Order. After its secularisation in +1521, when the Grand-Master Albert embraced the reformed faith, the +domains of E. Prussia were held as a fief from Poland. In 1657 Prussia +became an independent state under Frederick William, the great Elector. It +is curious to observe how the name of Prussia, originally that of a +conquered, non-Germanic people, has become in our time that of the first +German power in the world. + +The historical circumstances on which the poem of “Konrad Wallenrod” is +founded are thus detailed at length by the author himself, in the +following postscript to the work:— + +“We have called our story historical, for the characters of the actors, +and all the more important circumstances mentioned therein, are sketched +according to history. The contemporary chronicles, in fragmentary and +broken portions, must be filled out sometimes only by guesses and +conjectures, in order to create some historic entirety from them. Although +I have permitted myself conjectures in the history of Wallenrod, I hope to +justify them by their likeness to truth. According to the chronicle, +Konrad Wallenrod was not descended from the family of Wallenrod renowned +in Germany, though he gave himself out as a member of it. He was said to +have been born of some illicit connection. The royal chronicle says, ‘Er +war ein Pfaffenkind.’ Concerning the character of this singular man, we +read many and contradictory traditions. The greater number of the +chroniclers reproach him with pride, cruelty, drunkenness, severity +towards his subordinates, little zeal for religion, and even with hatred +for ecclesiastics. ‘Er war ein rechter Leuteschinder (library of +Wallenrod). Nach Krieg, Zank, und Hader hat sein Herz immer gestanden; und +ob er gleich ein Gott ergebener Mensch von wegen seines Ordens sein +wollte, doch ist er allen frommen geistlichen Menschen Graüel gewesen. +(David Lucas). Er regierte nicht lange, denn Gott plagte ihn inwendig mit +dem laufenden Feuer.’ On the other hand, contemporary writers ascribe to +him greatness of intellect, courage, nobility, and force of character; +since without rare qualities he could not have maintained his empire amid +universal hatred and the disasters which he brought upon the Order. Let us +now consider the proceedings of Wallenrod. When he assumed the rule of the +Order, the season appeared favourable for war with Lithuania, for Witold +had promised himself to lead the Germans to Wilna, and liberally repay +them for their assistance. Wallenrod, however, delayed to go to war; and, +what was worse, offended Witold, and reposed such careless confidence in +him, that this prince, having secretly become reconciled to Jagellon, not +only departed from Prussia, but on the road, entering the German castles, +burnt them as an enemy, and slaughtered the garrisons. In such an +unimagined change of circumstances, it was needful to neglect the war, or +undertake it with great prudence. The Grand-Master proclaimed a crusade, +wasted the treasures of the Order in preparation—5,000,000 marks—a sum at +that time immeasurable, and marched towards Lithuania. He could have +captured Wilna, if he had not wasted time in banquets and waiting for +auxiliaries. Autumn came; Wallenrod, leaving the camp without provisions, +retired in the greatest disorder to Prussia. The chroniclers and later +historians were not able to imagine the cause of this sudden departure, +not finding in contemporary circumstances any cause therefor. Some have +assigned the flight of Wallenrod to derangement of intellect. All the +contradictions mentioned in the character and conduct of our hero may be +reconciled with each other, if we suppose that he was a Lithuanian, and +that he had entered the Order to take vengeance on it; especially since +his rule gave the severest shock to the power of the Order. We suppose +that Wallenrod was Walter Stadion (see note), shortening only by some +years the time which passed between the departure of Walter from +Lithuania, and the appearance of Konrad in Marienbourg. Wallenrod died +suddenly in the year 1394; strange events were said to have accompanied +his death. ‘Er starb,’ says the chronicle; ‘in Raserei ohne letzte +Oehlung, ohne Priestersegen, kurz vor seinem Tode wütheten Stürme, +Regensgüsse, Wasserfluthen; die Weichsel und die Nogat durchwühlten ihre +Dämme; hingegen wühlten die gewässer sich eine neue Tiefe da, wo jetzt +Pilau steht!’ Halban, or, as the chroniclers call him, Doctor Leander von +Albanus, a monk, the solitary and inseparable companion of Wallenrod, +though he assumed the appearance of piety, was according to the +chroniclers a heretic, a pagan, and perhaps a wizard. Concerning Halban’s +death, there are no certain accounts. Some write that he was drowned, +others that he disappeared secretly, or was carried away by demons. I have +drawn the chronicles chiefly from the works of Kotzebue, ‘Preussens +Geschichte, Belege und Erläuterungen.’ Hartknoch, in calling Wallenrod +‘unsinnig,’ gives a very short account of him.” + +As to the conditions under which the poem was written, it is perhaps +needful to state that it was composed by Mickiewicz, during the term of +his banishment into Russia, and was first published at St. Petersburg in +the year 1828. In the character of the hero of the story, and in various +circumstances of the poem, it is impossible not to recognise the influence +of Lord Byron’s poetry, which obtained so powerful an ascendency over the +works and imaginations of the Continental romanticists, and had thus an +influence over foreign literature not conceded in the poet’s own country. +The Byronic character, however, presents a far nobler aspect in the hands +of the present author than in those of its original creator; for, instead +of being the outcome of a mere morbid self-concentration, and brooding +over personal wrongs, it is the result of a noble indignation for the +sufferings of others, and is conjoined with a high purpose for good, even +though such good be worked out by means in themselves doubtful or +questionable. + +We cannot pass by the subject without saying a word as to the undercurrent +of political meaning in “Konrad Wallenrod,” which fortunately escaped the +rigid censorship of the Russian press. Lithuania, conquered and oppressed +by the Teutonic Order, is Poland, subjugated by Russia; and the numerous +expressions of hatred for oppressors and love of an unhappy country woven +into the substance of the narrative must be read as the utterances of a +Pole against Russian tyranny. The underhand machinations of the concealed +enemy against the state in which he is a powerful leader, may be held to +figure that intricate web of intrigue and conspiracy which Russian +liberalism is gradually weaving throughout the whole political system, and +which is daily gaining influence and power. The character of Wallenrod is +essentially the same as that of Cooper’s “Spy;” but we cannot suppose that +the author intended to hold up trickery and deceit as praiseworthy and +honourable, even though it is the sad necessity of slaves to use treachery +as their only weapon; or that the Macchiavellian precept with which the +story is headed is at all intended as one to be generally followed by +seekers of political liberty against despotism. The end and aim of this, +as of all the works of Mickiewicz, is to show us a great and noble soul, +noble in spite of many errors and vices, striving to work out a high +ideal, and the fulfilment of a noble purpose; and to exhibit the heroism +of renunciation of personal ease and enjoyment for the sake of the world’s +or a nation’s good. + +In regard to the method used in the English version, it is only necessary +to add that as far as possible verbal accuracy in rendering has been +endeavoured after; and an attempt, at least conscientious—whether or not +partially successful must be left to the sentence of those qualified to +form an opinion—has been made to reproduce as nearly as may be something +of the original spirit In translating the main body of the narrative blank +verse has been the medium employed, not as at all representing the +beautiful and harmonious interchange of rhymes and play of rhythm so +conspicuous in the Polish lines; but as securing, by reason of freedom +from the necessity for rhymes, a truer verbal rendering, and as being the +measure par excellence best suited to English narrative verse. The +“Wajdelote’s Tale” has for similar reasons been rendered into the same +form, instead of being reproduced in the original hexameter stanza, as +strange to the Polish as to the English tongue, wherein, despite the works +of Longfellow and Clough, it can hardly be said to have yet become +thoroughly naturalised. Most of the lyrics are translated into the same +metres as the originals, with the sole exception of the ballad of +Alpujara. This, as being upon a Spanish or Moorish subject, it was judged +best to render into a form nearly resembling that of the ancient Spanish +ballad, and employed by Bishop Percy in translation of the “Rio Verde,” +and other poems from a like source. Moreover, the original “Alpujara” is +couched in a metre which, though extremely well suited to the Polish +tongue, is difficult of imitation in English; or only to be imitated by +great loss of accuracy in rendering. + +In concluding, the translator begs to express a hope that this humble +effort to present, however feebly, to the reading public of Great Britain +an image of the work of the greatest of Polish poets, may, not be wholly +unacceptable. Any defects which the critical eye may note, must +undoubtedly be laid rather to the charge of the copyist, than to the +original of the great master. I dare, however, to trust, that the shadow +of so great a name, and the sincere wish to contribute this slender homage +to the memory of one of Europe’s most illustrious writers, may serve as an +excuse for over-presumption. + +LONDON, _March_ 1882. + + + + + + KONRAD WALLENROD + + _AN HISTORICAL TALE._ + + (FROM THE ANNALS OF LITHUANIA AND PRUSSIA.) + +“Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere... bisogna +essere volpe e leone.” + + MACCHIAVELLI, _Il Principe_. + + + + + +INTRODUCTION. + + +A HUNDRED years have passed since first the Order +Waded in blood of Northern heathenesse; +The Prussian now had bent his neck to chains, +Or, yielding up his heritage, removed +With life alone. The German followed after, +Tracking the fugitive; he captive made +And murdered unto Litwa’s farthest bound. + +Niemen divideth Litwa from the foe; +On one side gleam the sanctuary fanes, +And forests murmur, dwellings of the gods. +Upon the other shore the German ensign, +The cross, implanted on a hill, doth veil +Its forehead in the clouds, and stretches forth +Its threatening arms towards Litwa, as it would +Gather all lands of Palemon together, +Embrace them all, assembled ’neath its rule. + +This side, the multitude of Litwa’s youth, +With _kolpak_ of the lynx-hide and in skins +Clad of the bear, the bow upon their shoulders, +Their hands all filled with darts, they prowl around, +Tracking the German wiles. On the other side, +In mail and helmet armed, the German sits +Upon his charger motionless; while fixed +His eyes upon the entrenchments of the foe, +He loads his arquebuse and counts his beads. + +And these and those alike the passage guard. +The Niemen thus, of hospitable fame, +In ancient days, uniting heritage +Of brother nations, now for them becomes +The threshold of eternity, and none, +But by foregoing liberty or life, +Cross the forbidden waters. Only now +A trailer of the Lithuanian hop, +Drawn by allurement of the Prussian poplar, +Stretches its fearless arms, as formerly, +Leaping the river, with luxuriant wreaths, +Twines with its loved one on a foreign shore. +The nightingales from Kowno’s groves of oak +Still with their brethren of Zapuszczan mount, +Converse, as once, in Lithuanian speech. +Or having on free pinions ’scaped, they fly, +As guests familiar, on the neutral isles. + +And mankind?—War has severed human kind! +The ancient love of nations has departed +Into oblivion. Love by time alone +Uniteth human hearts.—Two hearts I knew. + +O Niemen! soon upon thy fords shall rush +Hosts bearing death and burning, and thy shores, +Sacred till now, the axe shall render bare +Of all their garlands; soon the cannon’s roar +Shall from the gardens fright the nightingales. +Where nature with a golden chain hath bound, +The hatred of the nations shall divide; +It severs all things. But the hearts of lovers +Shall in the Wajdelote’s song unite once more. + + + + + +THE ELECTION. + + +In towers of Marienbourg1 the bells are ringing, +The cannon thunder loud, the drums are beating. +This in the Order is a solemn day. +The Komturs hasten to the capital, +Where, gathered in the chapter’s conclave, they, +The Holy Spirit invoked, take counsel who +Is worthiest to bear the mighty sword,— +Into whose hands may they confide the sword? +One day, and yet another flowed away +In council; many heroes there contend. +And all alike of noble race, and all +Alike deserving in the Order’s cause. +But hitherto the brethren’s general voice +Placed Wallenrod the highest over all + +A stranger he, in Prussia all unknown, +But foreign houses of his fame were full2 +Following the Moors upon Castilian sierras, +The Ottoman through ocean’s troubled waves, +In battle at the front, first on the wall, +To grapple vessels of the infidel +The first; and in the tourney, soon as he +Entered the lists and deigned his visor raise, +None dared with him the strife of keen-edged swords,3 +By one accord the victor’s garland yielding. +But not alone amid Crusading hosts +He with the sword had glorified his youth; +For many Christian graces him adorn, +Poverty, humbleness, of earth disdain. + +But Konrad shone not in the courtly crowd +By polished speech, by well-turned reverence; +Nor e’er his sword for vile advantage sold +To service of disputing barons. He +Had consecrated to the cloister walls +His youthful years; all plaudits he disdained, +And ruler’s place, even higher, sweeter meeds. +Nor minstrel’s hymn, nor beauty’s fair regard +Could speak to his cold spirit. Wallenrod +Listens unmoved to praise, and looks afar +On lovely cheeks, enchanting discourse flies. + +Had Nature made him thus unfeeling, proud? +Or age? For albeit young in years, his locks +Were grey already, withered were his looks, +And sufferings sealed by age.—Twere hard to guess. +He would at times divide the sports of youth, +Or listen, pleased, to sound of female tongues, +To courtiers’ jests reply with other jests; +Or scatter unto ladies courteous words +With chilly smile, as dainties cast to children— +These were rare moments of forgetfulness;— +And speedily some light, unmeaning word, +That had no sense for others, woke in him +Passionate stirrings. These words: Fatherland, +Duty, Beloved,—the mention of Crusades, +And Litwa, all the mirth of Wallenrod +Instantly poisoned. Hearing them, again +He turned away his countenance, again +Became to all around insensible, +And buried him in thoughts mysterious. +Maybe, remembering his holy call, +He would forbid himself the sweets of earth; +The sweets of friendship only did he know, +One only friend had chosen to himself, +A saint by virtue and by holy state. +This was a hoary monk; men called him Halban. +He shared the loneliness of Wallenrod; +He was alike confessor of his soul, +And of his heart the trusted confidant +O blessed friendship! saint is he on earth, +Whom friendship with the holy ones unites. +Thus do the leaders of the Order’s council +Discourse of Konrad’s virtues. But one fault +Was his,—for who may spotless be from faults? +Konrad loved not the riots of the world, +Nor mingled Konrad in the drunken feast. +Though truly, in his secret chamber locked, +When weariness or sorrow tortured him, +He sought for solace in a burning draught; +And then he seemed a new form to indue, +And then his visage pallid and severe +A sickly red adorned, and his large eyes, +Erst heavenly blue, but somewhat now by time +Dulled and extinguished, shot the lightnings forth +Of ancient fires, while sighs of grief escape +From forth his breast, and with the pearly tear +The laden eyelid swells; the hand the lute +Seeks, the lips pour forth songs; the songs are sung +In speech of a strange land, but yet the hearts +Of the hearers understand them. ’Tis enough +To list that grave-like music, ’tis enough +The singer’s form to contemplate, to see +Memory’s inspiration on that face, +To view the lifted brows and sideward looks, +Striving to snatch some object from deep darkness. +What may the hidden thread be of the songs? +He tracketh surely, in this wandering chase, +In thought his youth through deep gulfs of the past. +Where is his soul?—In the land of memories! + +But never did that hand in music’s impulse +Mere joyful tones from out the lute evoke; +And still it seemed his countenance did fear +Innocent smiles, even as deadly sins. +All strings he strikes in turn, one string except— +Except the string of mirth;—the hearer shares +All feelings with him,—one excepted—hope! + +Not seldom him the brethren have surprised, +And marvelled at his unaccustomed change. +Konrad, aroused, did writhe himself and rage, +Had cast away the lute and ceased to sing. +He spoke out loudly impious words; to Halban +Whispered some secret things; called to the host, +Gave forth commands, and uttered dreadful threats, +On whom they knew not. All their hearts were troubled. +Old Halban tranquil sits, and on the face +Of Konrad drowns his glance,—a piercing glance, +Cold and severe, full of some secret speech. +Something he may recall, some counsel give, +Or waken grief in heart of Wallenrod, +Whose cloudy brow at once is calm again, +His eyes forego their fires, his rage is cool. + +Thus when, in public sport, the lionward, +Before assembled lords, and dames, and knights, +Unbars the grating of the iron cage. +The trumpet signal given, the royal beast +Growls from his deep breast, horror falls on all. +Alone his keeper moveth not a step, +Folds tranquilly upon his breast his hands, +And smites with power the lion,—by the eye. +With talisman of an undying soul +Unreasoning strength in bonds he doth control. + + + + + +II. + + +In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing; +Now from the hall of council to the chapel +Comes the chief Komtur, then the chiefest rulers, +The chaplain, brothers, and assembled knights. +The chapter listen vesper orisons, +And sing a hymn unto the Holy Spirit + + HYMN. + + Spirit! Thou Holy One, + Thou Dove of Sion’s Hill! +This Christian world, the footstool of Thy throne, + With glory visible + Lighten, that all behold. +Thy wings o’er Sion’s brotherhood unfold, +And let Thy glory shine from underneath + Thy wings, with sunlike rays. +And him, the worthiest of so holy praise, +Circle his temples with Thy golden wreath. +Fall on the visage of that son of man, +Whom shadows o’er Thy wings’ protecting van. + + Thou Saviour Son! +With beckoning of Thy hand almighty, deign + To point of many one, + Worthiest to hold, +And wear the sacred symbol of Thy pain. +To lead with Peter’s sword thy soldiery, + Before the eyes of heathenesse unfold + The standards of Thy heavenly empery. +Then let the sons of earth bow lowly down, +Him on whose breast the cross shall gleam to own. + +Prayers o’er, they parted. The Archkomtur4 ordered +After repose, to seek the choir again; +Again entreat that Heaven would enlighten +Chaplains and brethren, called to such election. + +So went they forth themselves to recreate +With the cool freshness of the night; and some +Sat in the castle porch, and others walk +Through gardens and through groves. The night was still; +It was the fair May season; from afar +Peeped forth the pale uncertain dawn; the moon, +Having the sapphire plains o’ercoursed, with aspect +Changing, with varying lustre in her eye, +Now in a shadowy, now a silvery cloud +Slumbering, now sank her still and tranquil head, +Like to a lover in the wilderness; +Dreaming in thought, life’s circle he o’erruns, +All hopes, all sweetness, and all sufferings. +Now sheds he tears, now joyful is his glance. +At length upon his breast the weary brow +Sinketh, and falls in sense’s lethargy. + +By walking other knights beguile the time, +But the Archkomtur wastes no time in vain. +He quickly summons Halban and the chiefs +Unto himself, and leads them to one side; +That, from the curious crowd afar removed, +They may pursue their counsels and impart +Forewarnings; from the castle go they forth. +They hasten to the plain. Conversing thus, +All heedless of their path, some hours astray +They wandered in the region close beside +The inlets of a tranquil lake. ’Tis morn! +This hour they should regain the capital. +They stop,—a voice,—whence? From the corner tower! +They listen,—’tis the voice of the recluse! +Long time within this tower, ten summers since, +Some unknown pious woman, from afar,5 +Who came to Mary’s town,—Maybe that Heaven +Inspired her blest design, or with the balm +Of penance she would heal the wounds of conscience,— +Did seek the shelter of a lone recluse, +And here she found while living yet a tomb. + +Long time the chaplains would not give consent. +Then, wearied by the constancy of prayers, +They gave her in this tower a shelter lone. +Scarcely the sacred threshold had she crossed, +When o’er the threshold bricks and stones were piled; +The angels only, in the judgment-day +Shall ope the door which parts her from the living. + +Above a little window and a grate, +Whereby the pious folk send nourishment, +And Heaven sends breezes and the rays of day. +Poor sinner! was it hatred of the world +Abused thy young heart to so great extreme +That thou dost fear the sun. and heaven’s fair face? +Scarcely imprisoned in her living grave, +None saw her, through the window of the tower, +Receive upon her lips the wind’s fresh breath, +Nor look upon the heaven in sunshine beauty, +Or the sweet flowerets on the plain of earth, +Or, dearer hundred-fold, her fellow-men. + +’Tis only known that still she is in life; +For when betimes a holy pilgrim wanders +Near her retreat by night, a sweet, low sound +Holds him awhile. Certain it is the sound +Of pious hymns. And when the village children +Together in the oak-grove sport at eve, +Then from the window shines a streak of white, +As ’twere a sunbeam from the rising dawn. +Is it an amber ringlet of her hair, +Or lustre of her slender, snowy hand +Blessing those innocent heads? The chivalry +Hear as they pass the corner tower these words: +“Thou art Konrad! Heaven! Fate is now fulfilled! +Thou shalt be Master, that thou mayest destroy them! +Will they not recognise?—Thou hid’st in vain. +Though like the serpent’s were thy body changed, +Yet of the past would in thy soul remain +Many things still,—truly they cleave to me. +Though after burial thou shouldst return, +Then, even then, would the Crusaders know thee!” +The knights attend,—’tis the recluse’s voice; +They look upon the grate; she bending seems, +Towards the earth she seems her arms to stretch. +To whom? The region is all desert round; +Only from far strikes an uncertain gleam, +In likeness of a steely helmet’s flame, +A shadow on the earth, a knightly cloak;— +Already it has vanished. Certainly +’Twas an illusion of the eyes, most certain +It was the rosy glance of morn that gleamed. +For morning’s clouds now rolled away from earth. + +“Brothers!” spoke Halban, “give we thanks to Heaven, +For certain Heaven’s decree hath led us here; +Trust we to the recluse’s prophet voice. +Heard ye? She made a prophecy of Konrad,— +Konrad, the name of valiant Wallenrod! +Let brother unto brother give the hand, +And knightly word, and in to-morrow’s council +Our Master he!”6—“Agreed,” they cried, “agreed!” + +And shouting went they. Far along the vale +Resounds the voice of triumph and of joy; +“Long Konrad live! long the Grand-Master live! +Long live the Order! perish heathenesse!” + +Halban remained behind, in deep thought plunged; +He on the shouters cast an eye of scorn +He looked towards the tower, and in low tones, +This song he sang, departing from the place:— + + SONG. + +Wilija, thou parent of streams in our land, +Heaven-blue is thy visage and golden thy sand; +But, lovely Litwinka,(1) who drinkest its wave, +Far purer thy heart, and thy beauty more brave. + +Wilija, thou flowest through Kowno’s fair vale, +Amid the gay tulips and narcissus pale. +At the feet of the maiden, the flower of our youth, +Than roses, than tulips, far fairer in sooth. + +The Wilija despiseth the valley of flowers, +She seeks to the Niemen, her lover, to rove; +The Litwinka listens no love-tale of ours, +The youth of the strangers has filled her with love. + +In powerful embrace doth the Niemen enfold, +And beareth o’er rocks and o’er wild deserts lone; +He presses his love to his bosom so cold, +They perish together in sea-depths unknown. + +Thee too, poor Litwinka, the stranger shall call +Away from the joys of that sweet native vale; +Thou deep in Forgetfulness’ billows must fall, +But sadder thy fate, for alone thou must fail. + +For streamlet and heart by no warning are crost, +The maiden will love and the Wilija will run; +And in her loved Niemen the Wilija is lost, +In the dark prison-tower weeps the maiden undone. + + + + + +III. + + +When the Grand-Master had the sacred books +Kissed of the holy laws, and from the Komtur +Received the sword and grand cross, ensigns high +Of power, he raised his haughty brow. Although +A cloud of care weighed on him, with his eye +He scattered fire around him. In his glance +Burns exultation, half with anger mixed,— +And, guest invisible, upon his face +Hovered a faint and transitory smile, +Like lightning which divides the morning cloud, +Boding at once the sunrise and the thunder. + +The Master’s zeal, his threatening countenance, +All hearts with hope and newer courage fills; +Battle before them they behold and plunder, +And pour in thought great floods of pagan blood. +Who shall against such ruler dare to stand? +Who will not fear his sabre or his glance? +Tremble, Litwini! for the time is near, +From Wilna’s ramparts when the cross shall shine. + +Vain are their hopes, for days and weeks flew by; +In peace a whole long year has flowed away, +And Litwa threatens. Wallenrod, ignobly +Himself nor combats, nor goes out to war; +And when he rouses and begins to act, +Reverses the old ruling suddenly. + +He cries, “The Order has o’erstepped its laws, +The brethren violate their plighted vows. +Let us engage in prayer, renounce our treasures, +And seek in virtue and in peace renown.” +To penance he compels them, fasts, and burdens; +Denies all pleasures, comforts innocent; +Each venial sin doth cruelly chastise +With dungeons underground, exile, the sword. + +Meanwhile the Litwin, who long years afar +Had shunned the portals of the Order’s town, +Now burns the villages around each night, +And captive their defenceless people takes. +Beneath the very castle proudly boasts, +He in the Master’s chapel goes to mass. +And children trembled on their parents’ threshold, +To hear the roar of Samogitia’s horn. + +What time were better to begin a war +While Litwa by internal strife is torn? +Here the bold Rusin,(2) here the unquiet Lach,(3) +The Crimean Khans lead on a mighty host; +And Witold, by Jagellon dispossessed, +Has come to seek protection of the Order; +In recompense doth promise gold and land, +But hitherto for help he waits in vain. + +The brothers murmur, council now assembles, +The Master is not seen. Old Halban hastes, +But in the castle, in the chapel finds +Not Konrad. Whither is he? At the tower! +The brotherhood have tracked his steps by night. +’Tis known to all; for at the evening hour, +When all the earth is veiled with thickest mists, +He sallies forth to wander by the lake. +Or on his knees, supported by the wall, +Draped in his mantle, till the white dawn gleams, +He lieth, moveless as a marble form, +And unsubdued by sleep the whole night long. +Oft at the soft voice of the fair recluse +He rises, and returns her low replies. +No ear their import can discern afar; +But from the lustre of the shaking helm, +View of the lifted head, unquiet hands, +’Tis seen some discourse pends of weighty things. + + SONG FROM THE TOWER. + +Ah! who shall number all my tears and sighs? +Have I so long wept through these weary years? +Was such great bitterness in heart and eyes, +That all this grate is rusty with my tears? +Where falls the tear it penetrates the stone, +As in a good man’s heart ’twere sinking down. + +A fire eternal burns in Swentorog’s halls;7 +Its pious priests for ever feed the fire: +From Mendog’s hill a fount eternal falls; +The snows and storm-clouds swell it ever higher. +None feed the torrent of my sighs and tears, +Yet pain for ever heart and eyeballs sears. + +A father’s care, a mother’s tender love, +And a rich castle and a joyous land, +Days without longing, nights no dream might move +Peace like a tranquil angel aye did stand +Near me, abroad, at home, by day and night, +Guarding me close, though viewless to the sight. + +Three lovely daughters from one mother born, +And I the first demanded as a bride; +Happy in youth, happy in joys to be, +Who told me there were other joys beside? +O lovely youth! why didst thou tell me more +Than e’er in Litwa any knew before? + +Of the great God, of angels bright as day, +Of stone-built cities where religion rests, +Where in rich churches all the people pray, +Where princely lords obey their maidens’ hests; +Like to our warriors great in warlike pains, +Tender in love as are our shepherd swains. + +Where man, from covering of clay set free, +A winged soul, flies through a joyful heaven. +I could believe it, for in listening thee +I had a foretaste of those wonders even. +Ah! since that time, in good and evil plight, +I dream of thee and those fair heavens bright. + +The cross upon thy breast rejoiced mine eyes; +The sign of future bliss therein I read. +Alas! when from the cross the thunder flies, +All things around are silenced, perished. +Nought I regret, though bitter tears I pour; +Thou tookest all from me, but hope leftst o’er. + +“Hope!” the low echoes from the shore replied, +The valleys and the forest Konrad woke, +And laughing wildly, answered, “Where am I? +To hear in this place—hope? Wherefore this song? +I do recall thy vanished happiness. +Three lovely daughters from one mother born, +And thou the first demanded as a bride. +Woe unto you, fair flowers! woe to you! +A fearful viper crept into the garden, +And where the reptile’s livid breast has touched +The grass is withered and the roses fade, +And yellow as the reptile’s bosom grow. +Fly from the present in thought; recall the days +Which thou hadst spent in joyousness without— +Thou’rt silent! Raise thy voice again and curse; +Let not the dreadful tear which pierces stones +Perish in vain. My helmet I’ll remove. +Here let it fall; I am prepared to suffer; +Would learn betimes what waiteth me in hell. + + VOICE FROM THE TOWER. + +Pardon, my loved one, pardon! I am guilty! +Late was thy coming, weary ’twas to wait, +And thus, despite myself, some childish song— +Away with it! What have I to regret? +With thee, my love, with thee a passing space +We lived through; but the memory of that time +I would not change with all earth’s habitants, +For tranquil life passed through in weariness. +Thyself didst say to me that common men +Are as those shells deep hidden in the marsh; +Scarce once a year by some tempestuous wave +Cast up, they peep from out the troubled water, +Open their lips, and sigh forth once towards heaven, +And to their burial once more return. +No! I am not created for such bliss. +While yet within my Fatherland I dwelt +A still life, sometimes in my comrades’ midst +A longing seized me, and I sighed in secret, +And felt unquiet throbbings in my heart; +And sometimes fled I from the lower plain, +And standing on the higher hill, I thought, +If but the larks would give me from their wings +One feather only, I would fly with them, +And only from this mountain wish to pluck +One little flower, the flower forget-me-not, +And then afar beyond the clouds to fly +Higher and higher, and to disappear! +And thou didst hear me! Thou, with eagle pinions, +Monarch of birds, didst raise me to thyself. +O now, ye larks, I beg for nought from you, +For whither should she fly, what pleasures seek, +Who has the great God learned to know in heaven, +And loved a great man on this lower world? + + KONRAD. + +Greatness, and greatness yet again, mine angel! +Greatness for which we groan in misery! +A few days still,—let it torment the heart,— +A few days only, fewer already are. +’Tis done! ’Tis vain to grieve for vanished time. +Aye! let us weep, but let our proud foes tremble! +For Konrad wept, but ’twas to murder them! +But wherefore cam’st thou here—wherefore, my love? +Unto God’s service did I vow myself. +Was it not better in His holy walls, +Afar from me to live and die than here, +In the land of lying and of murderous war, +In this tower-grave by long and painful tortures +To expire, and open solitary eyes, +And through the unbroken fetters of this grate +Implore for help, and I be forced to hear, +To look upon the torture of long death, +Standing afar, and curse my very soul, +That harbours relics yet of tenderness? + + VOICE FROM THE TOWER. + +If thou lamentest, hither come no more! +Though thou shouldst come, with burning zeal implore, +Thou shouldst hear nought. My window now I close, +Descend once more into my prison darkness. +Let me in silence drink my bitter tears. +Farewell for aye, farewell, my only one! +And let the memory perish of this hour, +Wherein thou didst no pity for me show. + + KONRAD. + +Then thou have pity! for thou art an angel! +Stay! But if prayer is powerless to restrain, +On the tower’s angle will I strike my head; +I will implore thee by the death of Cain. + + VOICE FROM THE TOWER. + +O let us both have pity on ourselves! +My love, remember, great as is this world, +Two of us only on this mighty earth, +Upon the seas of sand two drops of dew. +Scarce breathes a little wind, from the earthly vale +For aye we vanish—ah! together perish! +I came not here for this, to torture thee. +I would not on me take the holy vows, +Because I dared not pledge my heart to Heaven, +While yet in it an earthly lover reigned. +I in the cloister would remain, and humbly +Devote my days to service of the nuns. +But there without thee, everything around +Was all so new, so wild, so strange to me! +Remembering then that after many years, +Thou shouldst return again to Mary’s town +To seek for vengeance on the enemy, +The cause defending of a hapless folk, +I said unto myself, “Who waits long years +Shortens with thoughts; maybe he now returns, +Maybe is come. Is it not free to ask, +Though living I immure me in the grave, +That once more I may look upon thy face, +That I at least may perish near to thee? +And therefore to the hermit’s narrow house +Upon the road, upon the broken rock, +I will betake me, and enclose myself. +Some knight maybe, in passing by my hut, +May speak aloud by chance my loved one’s name; +Among the foreign helmets I may view +His crest; though changed the fashion of his arms, +Although a strange device adorn his shield, +Although his face be changed, even then my heart +Will recognise my lover from afar. +And when a heavy duty him compels +To shed the blood of all and to destroy, +And all shall curse him, one heart yet alone +Shall dare afar to bless him.” Here I chose +My habitation and my grave apart, +In silence, where the sacrilege of groans +The traveller dare not listen. Thou, I know, +Lovest to walk alone. Within myself +I thought, “Maybe at even he will come, +Having his comrades left behind, to hold +Converse with winds and billows of the lake; +And he will think of me and hear my voice.” +And Heaven did fulfil my innocent wish. +Thou earnest; thou didst understand my song. +I prayed in former times that dreams might bless +Me with thine image, though the form were mute: +To-day, what happiness! To-day, together,— +Together we may weep! + + KONRAD. + + And wherefore weep? +I wept, thou dost remember, when I tore +Myself for ever from thy dear embrace, +And of my free will died from happiness, +That thus I might designs of blood fulfil. +That too long martyrdom at length is crowned. +Now stand I at the summit of desires; +I can revenge me on the enemy. +And thou hast come to tear my victory from me! +Till now, when from the window of thy turret +Thou didst look on me, in the world’s whole circle +Again there seemed no thing to meet my eye, +But the lake only, and the tower and grate. +Around me all with tumult seethes of war. +’Mid trumpet clamour, ’mid the clash of arms, +I seek impatient with a straining ear, +For the angelic sound of thy sweet lips, +And all the day for me is waiting hope. +And when the evening season I have reached, +I wish to lengthen it by memories: +I reckon by its evenings all my life. +Meanwhile the Order murmurs at repose, +Entreat for war, demand their own perdition; +And vengeful Halban will not let me breathe, +But still recalls to me those ancient vows, +The slaughtered hamlets, and the lands destroyed; +Or if I will not listen his reproaches, +He with one sigh, one glance, one beckoning, +Can blow my smouldering vengeance to a flame. +Now seems my destiny to near its end; +Nought the Crusaders can withhold from war. +A messenger from Rome came yesterday. +From the world’s every quarter, clouds unnumbered +A pious zeal hath gathered in the field, +And all call out to me to lead them on +With sword and cross upon the walls of Wilna. +And yet—with shame I must confess—ev’n now, +While destinies of mighty nations pend, +I think of thee, and still invent delays, +That we may pass together one more day. +O youth! how fearful was thy sacrifice! +When young, love, happiness, a very heaven, +I for a nation’s cause could sacrifice +With grief, but courage;—and to-day, grown old,— +To-day despair, my duty, and God’s will +Compel me to the field, and still I dare not +Tear my grey head from these walls’ pedestal, +That I may not forego thy sweet conversing. + +He ceased. Groans only issued from the tower. +Long hours flowed by in silence. Now the night +Reddened, and now the water’s stilly face +Blushed with the ray of dawn. Among the leaves +Of sleeping bushes with a rustling murmur +The morning freshness flew. The birds awoke +With their soft notes, then once again they ceased, +And by long-during silence gave to know +They had too early woken. Konrad rose, +Lifted his eyes unto the tower, and looked +With anguish on the grate. The nightingale +Awoke in song, then Konrad looked around. +’Tis morning! and he let his visor down, +And in his cloak’s wide folds concealed his face. +With beckoning of his hand he signs adieu, +And in the bushes how is lost + Ev’n thus, +A spirit infernal from a hermit’s door +Doth vanish at the sound of matin bell. + + + + + +IV. + + +THE FESTIVAL. + + +IT was the Patron’s day, a solemn feast; +Komturs and brethren to the city ride; +White banners wave upon the castle towers: +Konrad invites the knights to festival. + +A hundred white cloaks wave around the board, +On every mantle is the long black cross,—These +are the brethren, and behind them stand +The young esquires to serve them, in a ring. + +Konrad sat at the top; upon his left +The place was Witold’s,8 with his leaders brave,— +One time their foe, to-day the Order’s guest, +Leagued against Litwa as their firm ally. + +The Master, rising, gives the festal word, +“Rejoice we in the Lord!” The goblets gleamed. +“Rejoice we in the Lord!” cried thousand voices. +The silver shone, the wine poured forth in streams. + +Silent sat Wallenrod, upon his elbow +Leaning, and heard with scorn the unseemly noise. +The uproar ceased; scarcely low-spoken jests +Alternate here and there the cup’s light clash. + +“Let us rejoice,” he says. “How now, my brethren! +Beseems it valiant knights to thus rejoice? +One time a drunken clamour, now low murmurs? +Must we then feast like bandits or like monks? + +“There were far other customs in my time, +When on the battlefield with corpses piled, +On Castile’s mountains or in Finland’s woods, +We drank beside the camp-fire. + + “Those were songs! +Is there no bard, no minstrel in the crowd? +Wine maketh glad indeed the heart of man, +But song it is that forms the spirit’s wine.” + +Then various singers all at once arose; +A fat Italian here, with birdlike tones, +Sings Konrad’s valour and great piety; +And there a troubadour from the Garonne, +The stories of enamoured shepherds sings, +Of maids enchanted and of wandering knights. + +Wallenrod slept;—meanwhile the songs are o’er. +Awakened sudden by the loss of sound, +He to the Italian cast a purse of gold. +“To me alone,” he said, “thou didst sing praise. +Another may not give thee recompense; +Take and depart. Let that young troubadour, +Who serveth youth and beauty, pardon us +That in the knightly throng we have no damsel, +To fasten a vain rosebud to his breast + +The roses here are faded. I would have +Another bard,—the cloister knight desires +Another song; but be it wild and harsh, +Like to the voice of horns, the clash of swords. +And be it gloomy as the cloister walls, +And fiery as a solitary drunkard. + +“Of us, who sanctify and murder men, +Let song of murderous tone proclaim the saintship, +And melt our heart, and rouse to rage,—and weary; +And let it then again affright the weary. +Such is our life, and such our song should be; +Who then will sing it?” + + “I,” replied an old +And venerable man, who near the door +Sat ’mid the squires and pages, by his robe +Prussian or Litwin. Thick his beard, by age +Whitened; the last grey hairs wave on his head; +His brow and eyes are covered by a veil; +Sufferings and years are graven on his face. + +He bore in his right hand a Prussian lute, +But towards the table stretched his left hand forth, +And by this sign entreated audience. +All then were silent. + “I will sing,” he cried. +“Once sang I to the Prussians and to Litwa; +Some now have perished in their land’s defence; +Others will not outlive their country’s loss, +But rather slay themselves upon her corse; +As servants true, in good and evil lot, +Will perish on their benefactor’s pile. +Others more shamefully in forests hide; +Others, like Witold, dwell among you here. + +“But after death?—Germans! ye know full well. +Ask of the wicked traitors to their land +What, they shall do when, in that further world, +Condemned to burning of eternal fires, +They would their ancestors invoke from paradise? +What language shall entreat them for their aid? +If in their German, their barbaric speech, +The forefathers will know their children’s voice. + +“O children! what a foul disgrace for Litwa, +That none of you, aye, none, defended me, +When from the shrine, the hoary Wajdelote,(4) +Away they dragged me into German chains! +Alone in foreign lands have I grown old. +A singer!—alas! to no one can I sing! +On Litwa looking, I wept out mine eyes. +To-day, if I would sigh towards my home, +I know not where that home beloved lies, +If here, or there, or in another place. + +“Here only, in my heart, have I preserved +That in my Fatherland my best possession; +And these poor remnants of my former treasure +You Germans take from me,—take memory from me! + +“As a defeated knight in tournament +Escapes with life though honour has been lost; +And, dragging out despisèd days in scorn, +Returns once more unto his conqueror; +And for the last time straining forth his arm, +Breaketh his sword beneath the victor’s feet,— +So my last failing courage me inspires; +Yet once more to the lute my hand is bold; +Let the last Wajdelote of Litwa sing +Litwa’s last song!” + He ended, and awaited +The Master’s answer. All in silence deep +Await. With mockery and with curious eye +Konrad tracks Witold’s every look and motion. + +They noted all how when the Wajdelote +Of traitors spoke, a change o’er Witold came. +Livid he grew and pale again he blushed, +Alike tormented by his rage and shame. +At last, his sabre casting from his side, +He goes, dividing all the astonished crowd. +He looked upon the old man, stayed his steps; +The clouds of anger hanging o’er his brow +Fell sudden in a rapid flood of tears; +He turned, sat down, with cloak he veiled his face, +And into secret meditation plunged + +The Germans whispered, “Shall we to our feasts +Admit old beggars? Who will hear the song, +And who will understand?” Such voices were +Among the crowd of revellers, and broken +By constant peals of ever-growing laughter. +The pages cry, whistling on nuts, “Behold! +This is the tune of the Litvanian song.” + +Upon that Konrad rose. “Ye valiant knights! +To-day the Order, by a solemn custom, +Receiveth gifts from princes and from towns, +As homage from a conquered country due. +The beggar brings a song as offering +To you: forbid we not the old man’s homage. +Take we the song; ’twill be the widow’s mite. + +“Among us we behold the Litwin prince; +His captains are the Order’s guests: to him +Sweet will it be to list the memory +Of ancient deeds, recalled in native speech. +Who understands not, let him go from hence. +I love betimes to hear the gloomy groans +Of those Litvanian songs, not understood, +Even as I love the noise of warring waves, +Or the soft murmur of the rain in spring;— +Sweetly they charm to sleep. Sing, ancient bard!” + + SONG OF THE WAJDELOTE.9 + +When over Litwa cometh plague and death, +The bard’s prophetic eye beholds, afraid. +If to the Wajdelote’s word be given faith, +On desert plains and churchyards, sayeth fame, +Stands visibly the pestilential maid,10 +In white, upon her brow a wreath of flame,— +Her brow the trees of Bialowiez11 outbraves,— +And in her hand a blood-stained cloth she waves. + +The castle guards in terror veil their eyes, +The peasants’ dogs, deep burrowing in the ground, +Scent death approaching, howl with fearful cries + +The maid’s ill-boding step, o’er all is found; +O’er hamlets, castles, and rich towns she goes. +Oft as she waves the bloody cloth, no less +A palace changes to a wilderness; +Where treads her foot a recent grave up-grows. + +O woeful sight! But yet a heavier doom +Foretold to Litwa from the German side,— +The shining helmet with the ostrich plume, +And the wide mantle with the black cross dyed. + +For where that spectre’s fearful step has passed, +Nought is a hamlet’s ruin or a town, +But a whole country to the grave is cast +O thou to whom is Litwa’s spirit dear! +Come, on the graves of nations sit we down; +We’ll meditate, and sing, and shed the tear. + +O native song! between the elder day, +Ark of the Covenant, and younger times, +Wherein their heroes’ swords the people lay, +Their flowers of thought and web of native rhymes. + +Thou ark! no stroke can break thee or subdue, +While thine own people hold thee not debased. +O native song! thou art as guardian placed, +Defending memories of a nation’s word. +The Archangel’s wings are thine, his voice thine too, +And often wieldest thou Archangel’s sword. + +The flame devoureth story’s pictured words, +And thieves with steel wide scatter treasure hoards. +But scatheless is the song the poet sings. +And should vile spirits still refuse to give +Sorrow and hope, whereby the song may live, +Upward she flieth and to ruins clings, +And thence relateth ancient histories. +The nightingale from burning dwellings flits, +But on the roof, a moment yet she sits; +When falls the roof she to the forest flies, +And from her laden breast o’er dying embers, +Sings a low dirge the passer-by remembers. + +I heard the song! An ancient peasant swain, +When over bones his iron ploughshare rang, +Stood, and on flute of willow played a strain, +Prayers for the dead, or, with a rhymed lament, +Of you, great childless fathers, then he sang. +The echoes answered. I from far did hear, +And sorrow brought the sight and song more near; +In eyes and ears my spirit all was bent. + +As on the judgment-day the dead past all +The Archangel’s trumpet from the tomb shall call, +So from the song the dead bones upward grew +To giant forms, from sleep of death awake, +Pillars and arches from their ruin anew, +And countless oars splashed in the desert lake; +And soon the castle-gates wide open seemed, +And princes’ crowns and warriors’ armour gleamed. +Now sing the bards, the dance the maidens weave; +I dreamed of marvels,—and awoke to grieve. + +Forests and native hills are vanished, +And thought doth fail, on weary pinions fled, +And sinketh in a hidden stillness drear. +The lute is silent in my stiffened hand, +And ’mid the groan of comrades of my land, +The voices of the past I may not hear. +Still something of that youthful fire once mine +Smoulders within me, and at times its light +Wakens the soul and maketh memory bright. +Then memory, like a lamp of crystalline, +The pencil has with painted colours decked, +Although by dust bedimmed, with scars beflecked; +Place but within its heart a little light, +With freshness of its colours eyes are lured, +On palace walls yet gleaming fair and bright, +Lovely, though yet with dusty cloud obscured. + +O could I but this fire of mine impart +To all my hearers’ breasts, the shapes upraise +Of those dead times, and reach the very heart +Of all my brothers with my burning lays! +But haply even in this passing hour, +Now when their native song their hearts can move, +The pulses of those hearts may beat more strong, +Their souls may feel the ancient pride and love; +And live one moment in such noble power, +As lived their forefathers their whole life long. + +But why invoke the ages long gone by, +And for the present’s glory find no voice? +For in your midst a great man liveth nigh— +I sing of him. Ye, Litwini, rejoice! + +Silent the old man was, and hearkened round, +If still the Germans will permit his song. +Around the hall there reigned a silence deep; +This warms all poets to a newer zeal. +Once more he raised his song, but other theme; +O’er freer cadences his voice did range. +More rarely he, and lighter, touched the strings, +Descending from the hymn to simple story. + + THE WAJDELOTE’S TALE. + +Whence come the Litwins? From a nightly sally; +From church and castle they have won rich spoils, +And crowds of German slaves with fettered hands, +Ropes on their necks, follow the victors’ steeds. +They look towards Prussia and dissolve in tears, +On Kowno look, commend their souls to God. +In midst of Kowno stretches Perun’s plain; +The Litwin princes, there returned from conquest, +Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.12 +Two captive knights untroubled ride to Kowno, +One fair and young, the other bowed with years. +They in the battle left the German troops, +Fled to the Litwins. Kiejstut did receive them, +But led them to the castle under guard. +He asks their race, with what intent they come. +“I know not,” said the youth, “my race or name; +In childhood was I made the Germans’ captive. +I recollect alone, somewhere in Litwa, +Amid a great town stood my father’s house. +It was a wooden town on lofty hills, +The house was of red brick. Around the hills +Murmured a wood of fir-trees on the plains; +Among the woods a white lake gleamed afar. +One night a shout aroused us from our sleep; +A fiery day dawned in the window, shook +The window-panes, and whirling wreaths of smoke +Burst forth within the house. We to the door. +Flames curled through all the streets, sparks fell like hail. +A horrid cry arose, ‘To arms! the Germans +Are in the town! to arms!’ My father rushed +Forth with his sword,—rushed forth—returned no more! +The Germans poured into the house. One seized me +And caught me to his saddle. What came further +I know not; but long, long my mother’s shrieks +I heard ’mid clash of swords, ’mid fall of houses. +This cry long followed me, stayed in my ear; +Even now when I view flames and falling houses, +This cry wakes in my soul as echo wakes +In caverns after thunder’s voice. Behold +My memories all of Litwa and my parents. +Sometimes in dreams I view the honoured forms +Of mother, father, brethren; but anew +Some cloud mysterious veils their features o’er, +Thicker and darker growing evermore. +The years of childhood passed away. I lived +A German among Germans, and they gave me +The name of Walter,13 Alf thereto as surname. +German the name, my soul remained Litvanian; +Grief for my parents, for the strangers hatred +Remained. The Master Winrych in his palace +Reared me, himself did hold me to the font, +Loved and caressed me as his very son. +But weary in his palace, from his knees +I fled unto the Wajdelote. That time +Among the Germans was a Litwin bard, +Captive for many years,—interpreter, +He served the army. When he heard of me +That I was orphan and Litvanian, +He told of Litwa, cheered my longing soul +With his caresses, song, and with the sound +Of the Litvanian speech. He often led me +To the grey Niemen’s shores; from thence I joyed +To look upon my country’s well-loved mountains. +And when unto the castle we returned, +He dried my tears to waken no suspicion: +He dried my tears, but kindled in me vengeance +Against the Germans. I remember well +How, when we came again into the castle, +I sharpened secretly a knife, with what +Delight of vengeance cut I Winrych’s carpets, +Or broke his mirrors, on his shining shield +Flung sand, or spit upon it. Later on, +When grown near manhood, from Klajpedo’s port +I sailed with the old man to view the shores +Of Litwa. There I plucked my country’s flowers; +Their magic fragrance woke within my soul +Some ancient, dark remembrance. With the fragrance +Intoxicated, seemed me that a child +Once more I grew, and in my parents’ garden, +Played with my little brothers. The old man +Assisted memory with his words, more lovely +Than herbs and flowers,—painted the happy past, +How sweet in native land ’mid friends and kin +To pass one’s youth, how many Litwin children +Knew not such bliss, in the Order’s fetters weeping. +I heard this on the plains, but on the beach, +Where the white billows break with roaring breasts, +And from their foamy throat cast streams of sand, +‘Thou seest,’ the old man then was used to say, +‘The grassy carpet of this seaboard meadow. +The sand blows over it. These fragrant herbs, +Thou seest, would pierce the deadly covering, +By their brow’s strength. In vain, alas! for now +Another hydra comes of gravel-dust, +Spreads its white fins, subdues the living lands, +Stretching its kingdom of wild desert round. +My son! the gifts of spring are living cast +Into the grave. Behold! they are conquered peoples, +Our brothers the Litwini! Son, this sand +Storm-driven from the sea, it is the Order.’ +My heart did pain me hearing, and I longed +To murder all Crusaders, or to fly +To Litwa; but the old man checked my zeal. +‘To free knights,’ said he, ‘it is free to choose’ +Their weapon, and with equal strength to fight +in open field. Thou art a slave; the only +Weapon that slaves may use is treachery. +Remain awhile and learn the Germans’ war-craft; +Try thou to gain their confidence; we later +Shall see what thing to do.’ I was obedient +Unto the old man’s words—went with the Germans. +But in the first fight, scarce I viewed the standards, +Scarce did I hear my, nation’s songs of war, +I sprang unto our own,—led the old man with me. +As the young falcon, severed from his nest, +And nourished in a cage, although the fowlers +By cruel torments strip him of his reason, +And send him forth to war on brother-falcons; +Soon as he rises ’mid the clouds, soon as +His eyes o’erstretch the far unmeasured plains +Of his blue Fatherland, he breathes free air, +And hears the rustle of his wings.—Return +Unto thy home, O fowler! do not wait +To see the falcon in his narrow cage.” + +The youth made end; with wonder Kiejstut heard, +And listened also Kiejstut’s daughter fair, +Aldona, young and lovely as a goddess. +The autumn passes, therewith evenings lengthen; +And Kiejstut’s daughter, as accustomed, sits +Among her sisters and her comrades’ train, +Weaves at the loom or spins the distaff thread; +But as the needles fly or spindles turn, +Walter stands by and telleth wondrous tales, +About the German countries and his youth. +The damsel seizes all that Walter speaks, +Her soul, insatiable, devours all things; +She knows them all by heart, repeats in dreams. +Walter related of the castle halls, +Great towns beyond the Niemen, what rich dresses, +What splendid pastimes; how in tourney knights +Break lances, and the damsels look upon them +Down from their galleries, and adjudge the prize. +He spoke of the great God who rules beyond +The Niemen, and His Son’s Immaculate Mother, +Whose angel form he showed in wondrous picture. +This picture piously adorned his breast; +The youth now gave it to the fair Litwinka, +The day he brought her to the holy faith, +When he prayed with her;—he would teach her all +He knew himself. Alas! he taught her too +That which as yet he knew not,—taught her love. +And he himself learned much. With what delight +He from her lips the half-forgotten words +Heard of Litvanian speech. New feelings rose +With each new-risen word like sparks from ashes. +Sweet were the names of family, of friendship, +And sweeter yet than all the name of love, +Which no word equals here on earth, but—country. + +“Whence,” Kiejstut thought, “my daughters sudden change? +Where is her former mirth, her childish sports? +On holidays all maidens join in dance; +She sits alone, or converse holds with Walter. +On other days the needle or the loom +Engage the damsels; from her hands the needle +Falls, and the threads are tangled in the loom. +She sees not what she does; all tell me so. +And yesterday, I marked she sewed a rose, +The flowers with green, the leaves with rosy silk. +How could she know this, when her eyes and thoughts +Seek only Walter’s eyes, seek his discourse? +Oft as I ask, ‘Where goes she?’ ‘To the valley.’ +‘Whence comes she?’ ‘From the valley.’ ‘What is there?’ +‘The youth has made in it a garden for her.’ +What! is that garden fairer than my orchards? +(For Kiejstut owned proud orchards full of apples +And pears, allurement of the Kowno damsels.) +’Tis not the garden lures her. I have marked +Her windows in the winter; all the panes +Which look on Niemen clear are as in May; +The frost has not obscured the crystal glass. +Thence Walter comes. She sat beside the window, +And with her burning sighs did melt the ice. +I thought, he teaches her to read and write, +Hearing all princes now instruct their children,— +A good lad, valiant, skilled like priest in books. +Shall I expel him from my house? He is +So needful to our Litwa; he can rank +The troops as can no other; rampart mounds +He best can heap; the thunder-arms direct. +I have one behind my army.—Walter, come, +And be my son-in-law, and fight for Litwa.” + +So Walter wed Aldona. Germans! you +No doubt will think this is the story’s end; +For in your love romances when the knights +Are married, then the minstrel ends his song, +And only adds, “They lived long and were happy.” +Well Walter loved his wife; his noble soul +Yet found no happiness in heart or home, +For in the country was there blessing none. + +The snows scarce vanished, scarce the first lark sung;— +The lark to other lands sings love and joy, +But unto hapless Litwa he proclaims +With every year carnage and fire;—on march +Crusading armies in unnumbered crowds. +Now from the hills beyond the Niemen echo +To Kowno bears a mighty army’s shouts, +The clang of armour and the neigh of steeds. +Like mist the camp descends, o’erflows the plain, +And here and there the leaders’ standards gleam +Like lightning ere the storm. The Germans stood +Upon the shore, threw bridges o’er the Niemen, +And day by day the walls and bastions fall +With shock of battering-ram, and night by night +The storming mines work underground like moles; +Beneath the heavens the bomb in fiery flight +Rises, and swoops upon the city roofs, +As falls the falcon on the lesser fowl. +Kowno is fallen in ruins. Then the Litwin +Retires to Kiejdan; Kiejdan falls in ruin. +Then Litwa makes defence in woods and hills; +The Germans march on farther, robbing, burning; +Kiejstut and Walter first in battle, last +Retreating. Kiejstut was untroubled still, +From childhood used to combat with his foe, +To attack, to conquer, or to fly. He knew +His forefathers warred ever with the Germans; +He, following in their footsteps, ever fought, +And cared not for the future. Other were +The thoughts of Walter. Nurtured ’mid the Germans, +He knew the Order’s power; the Master’s summons, +He knew, could draw forth armies, treasures, swords, +From all of Europe. Prussia made defence; +In former times the Teutons broke the Prussians; +Sooner or later Litwa meets such fate. +He had seen the Prussians’ misery; he trembled +To think of Litwa’s future. “Son,” cries Kiejstut, +“Thou art an evil prophet; thou hast reft +The veil before my eyes, to show the abyss. +While hearing thee, it seemed my hands grew weak, +With victory’s hope all courage left my breast +How shall we with the German power contend?” +“Father,” said Walter, “one sole way I know, +A dreadful way, alas! effectual! +Some day I may reveal it.” Thus did they +Converse, the battle over, ere the trumpet +Did summon to fresh battles and defeats. +Kiejstut grew ever sadder, and how changed +Seemed Walter; never over-merry he. +Even in happy moments some light shade +Of thought o’erhung his brow, but with Aldona +Serene was once his brow and visage tranquil, +Aye welcoming her with smiles, with tender glance +Bidding farewell to her. Now, as it seemed, +He was tormented by some hidden pain. +By morn, before the house, wringing his hands, +He looked upon the smoke of towns and hamlets, +Burning far off; there gazed he with wild eyes. +By night he started out of sleep, and looked +Forth from the window on the blood-red blaze. +“Husband, what ails thee?” asks with tears Aldona. +“What ails me? Shall I peaceful sleep till Germans +Shall give me sleeping, bound, to hangman’s hands?” +“O husband! Heaven forbid! The sentries guard +Full well the trenches.” “True the sentries guard them. +I watch and grasp the sabre in my hand. +But when the sentries die the sword is broken. +List, if I live to old age, wretched age——” +“But Heaven will give us comfort in our children.” +“The Germans will fall on us, slay the wife, +The children tear away, and lead them far, +Teach them to loose the arrow on their father. +Myself my father, brothers, might have slain, +Unless the Wajdelote——” “Dear Walter! go we +Farther in Litwa; hide we from the Germans +In mountains and in forests.” “Aye, we go, +And other mothers, children leave behind. +Thus fled the Prussians; Germans overtook them +In Litwa. If they trace us in the mountains——” +“Let us again go farther.” “Farther? farther? +Unhappy one! shall we go far from Litwa, +Into the Tartar’s or the Rusin’s hands?” +Hushed was Aldona, troubled at this answer, +For hitherto it had to her appeared +Her Fatherland were long as is the world, +Wide without end; and now for the first time +She heard there was no refuge in all Litwa. +Wringing her hands she asked, “What may be done?” + +“One way, Aldona, one remains to Litwa +To break the Order’s power: that way I know; +But ask it not for God’s sake. Hundred times +Be cursed that hour in which, constrained by foes, +I seize these means.” No farther would he say, +Heard not Aldona’s prayers, but only heard +And saw before him Litwa’s misery. +At last the flame of vengeance, nursed in silence, +By sight of suffering and defeat, increased, +And did surround his heart, consumed all feelings— +One feeling even, hitherto life-sweetening,— +Feeling of love. So when the hunters light +A hidden fire ’neath oaks of Bialowiez, +It burns away the inner pith; the monarch +Of the forest loses all his waving leaves, +His branches fly off, even that green crown +That once adorned his brow, the mistletoe, +Dries up and withers. +Long the Litwini +Wandered through castles, mountains, and through woods, +The Germans harrying or by them attacked, +Till fought the dreadful fight on Rudaw’s plains, +Where many thousand Litwin youth lay slaughtered, +Beside as many of the Teuton host +Soon reinforcements from beyond the sea +Came to the Germans. Kiejstut then and Walter +Ascended with a handful to the mountains. +With broken sabres and with dinted shields, +Covered with dust and clotted gore, they went +Gloomy towards home. There Walter neither looked +Upon his wife, nor spoke to her one word; +But in the German tongue held he discourse +With Kiejstut and the Wajdelote. Aldona +Nought understood, but yet her heart forebode +Some dire event When ended was their council, +All three turned sorrowing glances on Aldona. +Walter looked longest, with despair’s mute gaze; +Thick-falling teardrops trickled from his eyes; +He fell before Aldona’s feet and pressed +Her hands unto his heart, and pardon begged +For all the things that she had suffered of him. +“Woe!” cried he, “unto women loving madmen, +Whose hearts domestic happiness contents not. +Great hearts, Aldona, are like hives too large; +Honey can fill them not, and they become +The lizard’s nest. Forgive me, dear Aldona! +To-day I would remain at home, to-day +Forget all things; be we for each to-day +What once we used to be. To-morrow——” But +He could not finish. What joy then Aldona’s! +She thought, unhappy, Walter would be changed, +That he would live in peace and joyousness. +Less thoughtful did she see him, in his eyes +More life; she saw new colour in his cheeks; +And all that evening at Aldona’s feet +Spent Walter. Litwa, Teutons, and the war +He cast awhile into forgetfulness; +Talked of those happy times when first he came +To Litwa, his first converse with Aldona, +The first walk to the valley, and of all +Those childish things, but memorable to the heart, +Of that first love. Wherefore such sweet discourse +Must he break off with that sad word—to-morrow, +And plunge in thought, look long upon his wife? +Tears circle in his eyes. Would he then speak, +But dares not? Did he but invoke the feelings, +The memories of ancient happiness, +Only to bid farewell to them? Shall all +This evening’s converse, all its sweet caresses, +Be but the last, last flickerings of love’s torch? +’Tis vain to ask. Aldona looks and waits, +Uncertain. Passing from the room, she gazed +Still through the crannies. Walter poured out wine, +And emptied many cups, and near him kept +The hoary Wajdelote through all the night. + +Scarce risen had the sun when hoofs were clattering; +Up with the morning mists two riders haste; +The guards all missed them; one eye could not miss. +A lover’s eyes are vigilant. Aldona +Had guessed their flight; she rushed into the valley. +Sad was that meeting. “O my love, return! +Return thou home—return! Thou must be happy, +Blest in embraces of thy family. +Thou art young and fair; comfort will soon be thine. +Forget me. Many princes formerly +Contended for thy hand. And thou art free, +Being as widow left of a great man, +Who for his country’s weal renounced ev’n thee! +Farewell! forget; but weep for me at times; +For Walter loses all; he doth remain +Lone as the lone wind in the wilderness, +And he must wander over all the world, +To plunder, murder, and at last to perish +By shameful death. But after vanished years +The name of Alf again shall sound in Litwa, +And from the Wajdelote’s lips thou shalt again +Hear of his deeds. Then, loved one, think thou then, +This dreadful knight, with cloud of mystery veiled, +Is known to thee alone,—was once thy husband; +And be thy pride thy desolation’s comfort.” +Silent Aldona did assent, although +She heard no word. “Thou goest! thou goest!” she cried, +And her own anguish wrought with her own words. +“Thou goest!” this one word sounded in her ear. +She framed no thought, nothing recalled; her thoughts, +Her memories, her future, tangled all; +But guessed her heart she never could return, +Nor e’er forget. Her eyes all wandering roved, +And many times met Walter’s wildered look, +Wherein she might not find the ancient joy; +She seemed to seek for something new around, +And looked once more. ’Twas forest wilderness. +Beyond the Niemen ’mid the forests gleamed +A turret height; a convent ’twas of nuns, +Sad dwelling of the Christians. On this tower +Rested Aldona’s eyes and thoughts; the dove +Seized by the wind amidst a raging sea, +Thus falls upon an unknown vessel’s mast. +And Walter understood Aldona. Silent +He followed her, and told her his design, +Commanding secrecy before the world. +And at the doors—ah! fearful was that parting! +Alf rode off with the Wajdelote. Till now +Nought has been heard of them. But woe to him +If he fulfil not hitherto his vows, +If, having all his bliss renounced and poisoned +Aldona’s happiness, and sacrificed +So much, he still have sacrificed in vain! +The future shows the rest. I have ended, Germans. + +This is the end?—great murmur in the hall. +“Who is this Walter, and what are his deeds? +Where? vengeance upon whom?” the hearers cried. +The Master only, ’mid the murmuring crowd, +In silence sat with head bent down. He seemed +As deeply moved; each instant snatches cups +Of wine, and to the very bottom drains. +Upon him came a change of somewhat new, +Many emotions break in sudden lightnings, +And circle o’er his burning countenance; +His pale lips quiver, and his wandering eyes +Fly round like swallows in the midst of storm. +At last he cast his mantle off, and sprang +Into the midst. “Where is the story’s end? +Sing me at once the end or give the lute. +Why stand’st thou trembling? Give the lute to me. +Fill up the goblets; I will sing the end +If thou dost fear to sing it. + +“I know ye. Every song the Wajdelote sings +Portendeth woe, as howls of dogs at night. +Murders and burnings ye delight to sing, +Ye leave to us—glory and sorrowing. +Yet in the cradle doth your traitorous song +Circle the infant’s breast in reptile form, +And cruellest poison sheds into the soul, +Foolish desire of praise and patriot love. +“She follows hard the footsteps of a youth +Like shade of slaughtered foe, sometimes reveals +Herself in midst of banquets, mixing blood +In cups of joy. I have heard the song—too well, +Alas! Tis done, ’tis done! I know thee, traitor! +Thou winnest! War! what triumph for a poet! +Give to me wine; now my designs are working. + +“I know the song’s end. No! I’ll sing another. +When on the mountains of Castile I fought, +There the Moors taught me ballads. Old man! play +That melody, that childish melody, +Which in the valley,—’twas a blessed time; +Unto that music did I ever sing. +Return at once, old man, for by all gods, +German or Prussian——” + + The old man must return. +He struck the lute, and with uncertain voice +Followed the savage tones of Konrad, as +A slave may walk behind his angry lord. + +Meanwhile the lights went out upon the table. +The knights had slumbered at the lengthy banquet, +But Konrad sings, and they awake again. +They stand, and, in a narrow circle pressed, +Attentive marked the ballad’s every word. + + BALLAD. + + ALPUJARA. + +Ruined lie the Moorish cities, + Still the Moors upraise the sword; +In the country still resisting, + Reigns the pestilence as lord. + +And the towers of Alpujara + Brave Almanzor still defends: +Floats below the Spaniard’s banner, + Siege to-morrow he intends. + +Roar the guns at sunrise loudly, + Ramparts break, and crumble walls; +From the towers the cross gleams proudly,— + Now the Spaniard owns these halls. + +Sad Almanzor views his warriors + Slain in battle desperate; +Hews his way through swords and lances, + Flieth Spain’s pursuing hate. + +Now the Spaniards in the fortress, + ’Mid the stones and corpses there, +Hold the feast and drain the wine-cup, + And the spoils and captives share. + +Soon the guard.without announces + That a stranger knight doth wait, +Craving for a swift admittance, + Bringing tidings of great weight + +’Twas the vanquished Moor Almanzor. + Swift his mantle off was thrown; +To the Spaniards he surrenders, + And he craves for life alone. + +“I am come, ye Christian warriors, + To submit me to your power; +I will serve the God of Christians, + Own your prophet from this hour, + +“Let the blast of fame, world-filling, + Say, the Arab chief o’erthrown +Would be brother to his victors, + Vassal of a stranger’s crown.” + +Well the Spaniard prizes valour. + So the great Almanzor knowing, +They embraced him, circled round him, + As their true companion showing. + +Each one then Almanzor greeted, + And their captain close embraced: +Hung upon his neck, and kissed him; + Such true love their friendship graced. + +All at once his strength grew feebler, + And he fell upon the ground; +But he drew the Spaniard with him, + To his feet the turban bound. + +All with wonder looked upon him, + And his livid visage scan; +Horrid smiles deformed his features, + And with blood his eyes o’erran. + +“Christian dogs,” he cries, “look on me, + If you understand this thing; +I deceived you, from Granada + Come I, and the plague I bring. + +“For my kiss breathed venom in ye, + And the plague shall lay you low; +Come and look upon my tortures— + Ye such death must undergo.” + +Wide he cast his eyes around him, + As he would eternally +Chain all Spaniards to his bosom; + And a horrid laugh laughed he. + +Laughed, and died; his eyes yet open, + Open yet his lips remained: +In that hellish smile for ever + Those cold features still were strained. + +Fled the Spaniards from the city. + But the plague their steps pursuing, +Ere they left doomed Alpujara, + Was that gallant host’s undoing. + +“Thus years ago the Moors avenged themselves; +Would you the vengeance of the Litwin know? +What if some day it issue forth in words, +And come to mingle poison in the wine? +But no! ah, no! to-day are other customs, +Prince Witold; for to-day the Litwin lords +Come to deliver us their native land, +And seek for vengeance on their harassed people. + +“But yet, indeed, not all—oh! no, by Perun! +There are in Litwa yet—I’ll sing yet to you! +Away from me that lute—a string is broken. +No song will be—but I do trust indeed +One time there will be. This day, o’er filled cups,— +I have drunk too much—rejoice yourselves and play! +And thou Al—manzor, leave my sight, old man! +Away with Halban—leave me here alone.” + +He said, and turning by uncertain way, +He found his place, and sank into his chair. +Still threatening somewhat, stamping with his foot, +O’erturned the table with the wine and cups. +At last grown weaker, he inclined his head +Upon the chair-arm; soon his glance was quenched; +His quivering lips were covered o’er with foam. +He slept. + +The knights awhile in fixed amazement stood: +They knew full well Konrad’s unhappy custom; +How, when inflamed unto excess with wine, +Into wild transports and forgetfulness +He falls; but at a banquet, public shame! +Before the strangers, in such unheard rage! +Who thus inflamed him? Where that Wajdelote? +He vanished privately, none know of him. + +Stories there were that Halban thus disguised +To Konrad that Litvanian song had sung, +To kindle by this means the zeal of Christians +To battle against heathenesse; but whence +A change so sudden in the Master? Wherefore +Did Witold show such angry wrath? What means +The Master’s strange, wild ballad? With conjectures, +Each vainly tries to track the hidden secret. + + + + + +V. + + +WAR.14 + + +War now. For Konrad may no longer curb +The people’s zeal, the council’s fierce insistance: +The whole land calls for vengeance long delayed, +For Litwa’s inroad, and for Witold’s treason. + +Witold, once suitor for the Order’s grace, +To aid recovery of his capital, +After the banquet, on this new report +That the Crusading hosts will take the field, +Changed measures—traitor to his recent friendship, +And led his knights in secrecy away. + +And in the Teuton castles on the road +He entered, by the Master’s forged commands; +And then disarming all the garrison, +Annihilated all with fire and sword. +The Order, roused with burning rage and shame, +Against the heathens stirred up fierce Crusade; +The Pope sends forth a bull,—seas, land, o’erflow +At once with swarms of warriors numberless, +Princes with mighty following of vassals; +The Red Cross decks their armour. Each his life +Devotes to christen pagans,—or to die. + +They went towards Litwa. What their actions there? +If thou wouldst know, gaze from the ramparts’ heights, +Look towards Litwa, as the day declines. +Thou see’st a fiery blaze; the vault of heaven +O’er-deluged with a stream of bloody flame; +Behold the annals of invading war. +Few words relate their carnage, plunder, fire, +And blaze, which may rejoice the foolish crowd, +But in it wise men do with fear confess, +A voice that crieth for revenge to Heaven. + +The winds blew on that dreadful fire apace, +The knights marched further to the heart of Litwa. +Report says Kowno, Wilna, are besieged. +Then ceased report, and couriers came no more. +No longer in the region flames were seen, +But further off the heaven’s ruddy blaze. +In vain the Prussians look with eager hope, +For spoils and prisoners of the conquered land; +In vain despatch swift couriers for the news, +The couriers hasten—and return no more. +As each this cruel doubt interpreteth, +He willingly would know despair itself. + +The autumn passed away. The winter’s snows +Revelled upon the mountains, block the ways. +Once more upon the distant heaven shine— +Midnight auroras? or the fires of war? +And ever nearer comes the light of flames, +And nearer yet the heaven’s ruddy blaze. + +From Marienbourg the folk look on the road; +They see afar—grovelling through deepest snows, +Some travellers!—Konrad! And our generals! +How welcome them? Victors? or fugitive? +Where are the others? Konrad raised his hand, +And pointed further off a scattered crowd, +Alas! their very aspect told the secret! +They rush in disarray, plunge in the snowdrifts; +Roll each on each, down treading like vile insects, +Within a narrow vessel perishing; +They push o’er corpses, ever newer crowds, +Hurl those new risen down again to earth. +Some drag still onward chilled and stiffened limbs, +Some on the march have frozen to the road; +But with raised hands the corpses standing point +Straight to the town, like pillars on the way. + +The townsfolk, terror-stricken, curious ran, +Fearing to guess the truth they dared not ask; +For all the story of that luckless war +They in the warriors’ eyes and faces read +For o’er their eyes hung death in frosty shape, +And Famine’s harpy hollowed out their cheeks. +Now are the trumpets of the Litwin heard, +Now rolls the storm, snow whirlwinds o’er the plain; +Far off a multitude of gaunt dogs howls, +And overhead the ravens hover round. + +All perished! Konrad has destroyed them all! +He, that once reaped such glory with the sword, +He, for his prudence formerly renowned, +Timid and careless in this latter war, +Marked not the cunning snares that Witold laid; +Deceived and blinded by the wish of vengeance, +Driving his army on the Litwin steppes, +Wilna thus long in sluggard guise besieged. +When plunder and provisions were consumed, +When hunger came upon the German camp, +And scattered all around, the enemy +Destroyed the auxiliars, cut off all supplies, +Each day a myriad Germans died from need. +Now time approached to end by storm the war, +Or else bethink them of a swift return. +Then Wallenrod, in peace and confidence, +Rode to the chase, or, closed within his tent, +Forged secret treaties, and denied his captains +Admission to the councils of the war. + +And thus in warlike fervour grew he cold, +That by his people’s tears untouched, unmoved, +He deigned not raise the sword in their defence; +All day with folded arms upon his breast, +In thought remaining, or discourse with Halban. +Meanwhile the winter piled its heaps of snow, +And Witold, with his fresh recruited bands, +Besieged the army, fell upon the camp. +Oh! shame in annals of the valiant Order! +The Master first did fly the battle-field! +In place of laurels, and abundant spoil, +He brought the news of Litwa’s victories! +Did ye but mark, when from that thunder stroke +He led this host of spectres to their homes, +What gloomy sadness darkened o’er his brow? +The worm of pain unwound him from his cheek, +And Konrad suffered; but look on his eyes! +That large half-open eye, bright shining throws +Its darts aslant, like comet threatening war; +Each moment changing, like the gleams of night, +Whereby the wily demon travellers lures. +Uniting joy and rabid rage in one, +It shone as with a right Satanic glance. + +Trembled the folk and murmured. Konrad care not. +He called to council the unwilling knights, +Looked on them, spoke, and beckoned. O disgrace! +They hear attentive, and believe his words. +They view Heaven’s judgments in the faults of man; +For whom of humankind persuades not—anguish. + +Tarry, proud ruler! Judgment waits even thee! +In Malborg is a dungeon underground. +There, when the night in darkness wraps the town, +The secret tribunal descends to council.15 +One single lamp upon the high-arched roof, +And day and night it burns mysteriously. +Twelve chairs, in circle placed around a throne,— +Upon the throne the secret book of laws. +Twelve judges each in sable armour clad; +The visages of all inlocked by masks, +In dungeons hide them from the common crowd; +But each thus masked enshrouds him from his fellows. + +All sworn, of their own will, with one accord, +Crimes of their potent rulers to chastise, +Too heinous, or unknown before the world. +And soon as falls on him the last decree, +Not even a brother’s trespass to condone; +Each must by violent or by treasonous ways, +On him condemned fulfil the spoken doom; +Dagger in hand, and rapier at their side. + +One of the maskers now approached the throne, +And standing with drawn sword before the book, + Spoke thus: “Tremendous judges! +Proof now our long suspicion has confirmed. +That man who calls him Konrad Wallenrod, + He is not Wallenrod. +Who is he? ’Tis unknown. Twelve years ago, +From unknown parts he to the Rhine-land came. +When passed Count Wallenrod to Palestine, +He in the count’s train wore an esquire’s dress. +But soon Count Wallenrod, unknown, did perish. +And then his squire, suspected of his death, + Departed secretly from Palestine; + Then did he land upon the Spanish shore; +In battles with the Moors gave proof of valour, +And in the tourneys prizes rich obtained, +And everywhere gained fame as Wallenrod. + He took on him at length the Order’s vows, + Was chosen Master, to the Order’s loss. +How ruled he, all ye know. This latter winter +When we with frost, famine, and Litwa fought, +Konrad in woods and oak-groves rode alone; +And there in secret held discourse with Witold. +Long time my spies have traced his every deed; +Hidden at evening by the corner tower, +They understood not the discourse which Konrad +Did hold with the recluse;—but, dreadful judges, +He spoke, they said, in the Litvanian tongue. +And weighing duly what the messengers +Of our tribunal of this man reported, +And that intelligence my spy late brought, +And fame reporteth, scarcely secretly; +Tremendous judges! I accuse the Master +Of falsehood, murder, heresy, and treason.” + +Here the accuser knelt before the book, +And laid his hand upon the crucifix; +And with an oath confirmed his story’s truth, +By God, and by the Saviour’s agony. +He ceased. The judges arbitrate the cause, +But not by open voice or still discourse; +Scarce by a glance of eye, or sign of hand, +Their deep and dreadful thought communicate. +Each in his turn approached him to the throne, +And with the dagger’s point o’erturned the leaves, +Of the Order’s book, and silent read the law, +Inquiring sentence of his conscience only. +And having judged, his hand lays on his heart, +And all in concord raised the cry of “Woe!” +With threefold echo then the walls repeated, +“Woe!”—In that word alone, that single word, +A sentence lies! The arraigners understood. +Twelve swords were raised aloft; one aim was theirs— +Destined to Konrad’s heart. Then all departed +In gloomy silence, and the walls behind, +Repeated with a fearful echo: “Woe!” + + + + + +VI + + +THE PARTING. + + +A WINTRY dawn, with stormy wind and snow; +Through storm and snow-clouds hastens Wallenrod. +Scarce stands he on the borders of the lake, +He calls aloud, striking the tower with sword. +“Aldona,” cries he, “let us live, Aldona! +Thy lover comes; his vows are all fulfilled, +The foes have perished, all is now fulfilled.” + + THE RECLUSE. + +“Alf! ’tis his voice indeed! My Alf, my love! +What! peace already! thou returnest safe? +Thou goest not forth again?” + + KONRAD. + + “For love of God, +Ask thou no tidings!—Listen, my beloved! +Listen, and weigh with carefulness each word, +The foes have perished. Dost thou see these fires? +Thou see’st? ’Tis Litwa’s havoc with the Germans. +A hundred years heal not the Order’s wounds, +I smote the hundred-headed monster’s heart. +Their treasures wasted, well-springs of their power, +Their towns in flames, a sea of blood has flowed,— +I caused all this! I have fulfilled my vows! +More fearful vengeance hell might not conceive. +I will no more of it—I am a man! +I spent my youth in foul hypocrisy, +In bloody, murders. Now, bent down with age, +Wearied of treasons, I am unfit for war. +Enough of vengeance. Germans, too, are men! +God has enlightened me. I come from Litwa, +And I have seen those places, seen thy castle, +The Kowno castle,—now it lies in ruin. +I turned away, urged thence my rapid course; +And hurried to that valley, our own valley. +All was as formerly! Those woods, those flowers! +All as it was upon that very eve, +When to the valley breathed we long farewell. +Alas! it seems to me but yesterday! +That stone—rememberest thou that high-raised stone +Once of our rambles limit made and end? +It standeth now, though overgrown with moss; +Scarce might I view it, hidden thus in green. +I tore the herb off, watered it with tears. +That grassy seat, where, through the summer noon, +Thou didst among the maples love to rest; +That spring, whose waters then I sought for thee— +I found them all, looked on them, passed around. +And even thy little arbour still remains, +As with dry willow-twigs I fenced it in; +And those dry twigs, a wonder, my Aldona, +That once I planted in the barren sand, +To-day thou wouldst not know them—lovely trees, +And the light leaves of spring upon them wave, +And on them grows the youthful catkin’s down. +Oh! seeing these, a blessing all unknown, +Foreshadowing of joy, revived my heart; +The trees embracing, on my knees I fell +O God! I cried, grant all may be fulfilled! +Oh! may we, to our Fatherland restored, +When dwelling in our Litwa’s native fields, +Again revive to life; may leaves of hope +Again o’erdeck with green our destiny. +Let us return! consent! I rule the Order; +I will bid open. But what need commands? +For were this door a thousand times more hard +Than steel, I’d beat it down—I’d pluck it up; +And thee, O my beloved, to our valley, +There will I lead thee, raise thee with my hand. +Or go we further still? Litwa has deserts; +There lie deep shades in woods of Bialowiez, +Where never rings the clang of foreign swords, +Nor sounds the haughty victor’s signal-word— +No, nor the groanings of our vanquished brothers. +There, in the midst of silent, pastoral joy, +And in thine arms, and on thy bosom, let me +Forget that there are nations in the world; +Or any worlds; we for ourselves will live— +Return, oh! speak, consent!” + Aldona spoke not; +And Konrad, silent, waited yet reply: +Meanwhile the blood-red dawn shone forth in heaven. + +“O God! Aldona, morning is before us, +And men will wake: the guard arrest us here. +Aldona!”—called he, trembling with despair. +No voice was his; beseeching with his eyes, +He lifted to the tower his claspèd hands, +Fell on his knees, and pity to entreat, +Embraced and kissed the walls of that cold tower. + + THE RECLUSE. + +“No, no! the time is past,” her sad voice spoke; +“But be thou tranquil, Heaven will give me strength, +The Lord will shield me from that heaviest stroke. +When here I came, I on the threshold swore +Never to leave this tower, but for the grave. +I wrestled with myself, and thou, my love, +Thou, even thou, against the Lord wouldst aid me. +Wouldst give back to the world a wretched phantom? +Oh think! oh think! if madly I should give +Myself to be persuaded, leave this cave +And fall with rapture into thine embrace; +But thou wouldst know not, neither welcome me, +Avert thine eyes, and ask, with horror struck, +‘What, is this fearful spectre fair Aldona?’ +And thou wouldst seek in this extinguished eye, +And in this visage her—the thought is death! +No, never let the poor recluse’s woe +Offend the beauty of the bright Aldona! + +“Myself, I will confess, forgive me, love! +Oft as the moon with brighter lustre gleams, +Hearing thy voice, I hide behind these walls, +Unwishing, loved one, to behold thee near! +For thou, maybe, art not the same to-day +Which once thou wert, in those sweet years gone by, +When with our hosts didst to our castle ride. +But thou retainest, hidden in my breast, +Those self-same eyes, that posture, form, and dress. +So the fair moth, within the amber drowned, +Retains its primal form eternally. +O Alf! ’twere better far that we remain +That which we were in former days, and as +We shall unite again,—but not on earth. + +“Leave we the beauteous valleys to the happy, +I love the stony stillness of my cell; +For me ’tis bliss enough to see thee living, +And in the evening thy loved voice to hear. +And in this silence, Alf, beloved, we may +Heal every suffering, sweeten every pang, +All treasons, murders, burnings, cast aside, +Strive thou to come but earlier and more frequent. + +“If thou shouldst—listen, on these very plains, +Like to that arbour plant another bower, +And hither bring those willows that thou lovest, +And flowers, and even that stone from out the valley; +There let the children from the hamlet near, +Play joyously beneath their native trees, +And into garlands weave their native plants; +Let them repeat the Lithuanian songs, +For native song doth meditation aid, +And brings me dreams of Litwa and of thee. +And later, later, when my life is o’er, +Here let them sing, and on the grave of Alf.” + +Alf heard no longer; he, on that wild shore, +Wandered on aimless, without thought or will; +A mountain there of ice, a forest there +Allured him; savage sights and hasty course +Afforded him relief in weariness. +His breast was heavy in the winter rain, +He cast aside his mantle, coat-of-mail, +He tore his garments, from his breast threw off +All—all but sorrow! + +Now morning lighted on the city ramparts. +He saw an unknown shadow, stopped, and gazed— +The shadow further moved; with silent steps +It glided o’er the snow, and disappeared +Within the trenches, but a voice was heard +Three times that voice repeated: “Woe, woe, woe!” + +Alf at this voice awoke, and stood in thought +He thought awhile,—and understood the whole. +He drew his sword, and looked to every side; +He turned him round, searched with unquiet eye— +’Twas waste around; only the winter snow +Flew in a whirlwind, and the north wind roared +He looked upon the shore, he stood in grief. +At length with rapid stride, though tottering, +He came again beneath Aldona’s tower. + +Far off he saw her, at the window still. +“Good day!” he cried; “so many, many years, +We saw each other only in the night. +And now good day! what happy augury! +The first good day after so many years! +And canst thou guess, wherefore I come so soon?” + + ALDONA. + +“I will not guess. Farewell, belovèd friend! +The light has risen too brightly—if they knew thee— +Cease to importune me. Farewell till evening. +I cannot come forth—will not” + + ALF. + + “Tis too late. +Know’st thou for what I pray thee? Throw some twig; +No, no, thou hast no flowers. From thy garments +A thread, or from thy tresses cast a lock; +Or throw a pebble from thy prison walls. +To-day I wish—all may not see to-morrow. +I would to-day have some remembrance of thee, +That lay this very morn upon thy breast, +And which a tear shall glow on, lately shed, +For I would lay it on my heart in death, +And bid the gift farewell with my last breath. +I must die shortly, swiftly, suddenly! +Well die together! Dost thou see that shot-hole? +There will I dwell. Each morning for a sign, +I’ll hang a black cloth on the balcony, +And at the grate each evening place a lamp. +There gaze thou steadfast. Throw I down the cloth, +Or if the lamp expires before its time, +Close thou thy window. I maybe return not. +Farewell, beloved!” + He vanished. Still Aldona +Gazed, bending downward from the window grate. +The morn had passed away, the sun had set, +But her white garments, dallying in the wind, +And arms stretched down to earth were long beheld. + +“The sun has set at last,” spoke Alf to Halban, +And pointed from his shot-hole to the sun. +Within the turret, from the early morn +He sat, and looked upon Aldona’s window, +“Give me my cloak and sword. Farewell, true friend; +I go unto the tower. Farewell for long, +Maybe for ever!—Listen to me, Halban. +If, when to-morrow day begins to gleam, +I come not back, leave thou this dwelling-place. +I will, I would give something to thy charge. +How lone am I! either in earth or heaven, +To no one, nowhere, have I aught to say +In my death-hour, except to her and thee! +Farewell unto thee, Halban; she will know it. +Throw down the kerchief if to-morrow morn— +But what is that? Dost hear? There comes a knocking.” +“Who goeth there?” three times the sentry cried. +“Woe!” answered many voices wild and strange. +Resistance none the sentry might oppose; +The door could not withstand the heavy shocks. +The invaders passed the lower galleries through, +And mounted up the winding iron stair +That led to Wallenrod’s last dwelling-place. +Alf with the iron bolt secured the door, +His sabre drew, a cup raised from the board, +Drew near the window. “It is done!” he cried. +He filled, and drank. “Old man, ’tis in thy hands.” + +Halban grew pale. With motion of his hand +He thought to spill the draught—he stopt in thought. +The sounds aye nearer through the doors were heard, +His hand relaxed. “’Tis they, the foes are come!” +“Old man, thou knowest what this uproar means? +What are thy thoughts? Thou hast the goblet full— +I have drunk my portion. In thy hands, old man.” + +Halban gazed on in silence of despair. +“No, no, I will survive even thee, my son! +I would as yet remain to close thine eyes, +And live, so that the glory of thy deed, +I to the world may tell, to ages show. +I’ll traverse Litwa’s castles, hamlets, towns; +And where I pass not, there my song shall fly. +The bard shall sing them unto knights in war, +And women sing them for their babes at home. +Aye! they shall sing them, and in future days +Some venger shall arise from out our bones.”(5) + +Alf fell upon the window-sill with tears, +And long, long time upon the tower he gazed, +As though he yet his gaze would satiate +With those dear sights he shortly must forego. +He hung on Halban’s neck; they mixed their sighs, +In that embrace of long and last farewell. +But at the bolts they heard a steely rattle, +And armèd men came in, and called Alf s name. + +“Traitor, thy head must fall beneath the sword; +Repent thee of thy sins, prepare for death! +Behold this old man, chaplain of the Order, +Cleanse thou thy soul and make a fitting end!” +Alf stood with drawn sword ready for their coming; +But paler aye he grew, he bowed, and tottered, +Leaned on the sill; casting a haughty glance, +His mantle tore off, flung the Master’s badge +On earth, and trampled scornful under foot. + +“Behold the sins committed in my life. +Ready am I to die; what will ye more? +The annals of my ruling will ye hear? +Look on these many thousands hurled to death, +On towns in ruins, and domains in flames. +Hear ye the storm-winds? clouds of snow drive on; +Thither your army’s remnants freeze in ice. +Hear ye? The hungry packs of dogs do howl, +They tear each other for the banquet’s remnant. + +“I caused all this, and I am great and proud, +So many hydras’ heads one blow has felled; +As Samson, by once shaking of the column, +To o’er throw the temple, dying in its ruin.” + +He spoke, looked on the window, and he fell. +But ere he fell, he cast the lamp to earth. +It three times glimmered with a circling blaze, +That rested latterly on Konrad’s brow; +And in its scattered flow the fire’s rust gleamed, +But ever deeper into darkness sank. +At length, as though it gave the sign of death, +One last great ring of light shot forth its blaze; +And in this blaze were seen the eyes of Alf, +All white in death, and now the light was dark. + +And at this moment through the tower walls pierced +A sudden cry,16 strong, lengthened, broken off— +From whose breast came it? Surely ye can guess +But he who heard it readily might tell, +That from the breast whence such a cry escaped, +Now never more should any voice come forth. +For this voice a whole life spoke aloud. + +Thus lute strings, shuddering from a heavy stroke, +Vibrate and burst; in their confusèd sounds +They seem to voice the first notes of a song, +But of such song let none expect the end. + +Such be my singing of Aldona’s fate. +Let music’s angel sing it through in heaven, +And thou, O tender reader, in thy soul. + + + + + +NOTES. + + +(1) _“__In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing.__”_ + +Marienbourg, in Polish Malborg, a fortified town, formerly the capital of +the Teutonic Order, under Kazimir Jagellon (1444-1492) united to the +Polish Republic; later on, given as a pledge to the Margraves of +Brandenburgh. It came at last into the possession of the Kings of Prussia. +In the vaults of the castle were the graves of the Grand-Masters, some of +which are still preserved. + +(2) _“__But foreign houses of his fame were full.__”_ + +Houses—so were called the convents, or rather castles, scattered through +various parts of Europe. + +(3) _“__The strife of keen-edged swords__”__ = combattre à outrance._ + +(4) _The Archkomtur._ + +The Grosskomthur was the chief officer after the Grand-Master. + +(5) _“__Some unknown pious woman from afar.__”_ + +The chronicles of that time speak of a country girl, who, having come to +Marienbourg, asked to be walled up in a solitary cell, and there ended her +life. Her grave was famous for miracles. + +(6) _“__Our master he.__”_ + +In time of election, if opinions were divided or uncertain, similar +occurrences were often taken as omens, and influenced the decisions of the +chapter. Thus Winrych Kniprode gained all the voices, because some of the +brothers heard, as though from the tombs of the Grand-Masters, a +three-fold calling: “Vinrice, ordo laborat.” + +(7) _“__A fire eternal burns in Swentorog’s halls.__”_ + +The castle of Wilna, where formerly was maintained the Znicz; that is, an +ever-burning fire. + +(8) _“__The place was Witold’s.__”_ + +[Witold, the son of Kiejstut, after rising over the heads of the other +Lithuanian princes to the sovereignty of the whole country, was ultimately +dispossessed by his cousin Jagellon, founder of the Jagellon dynasty, +which reigned over Poland and Lithuania from 1386 to 1572.] + +(9) _Song of the Wajdelote._ + +The Wajdelotes, Sigonoci, Lingustoni were priests whose office was to +relate or sing to the people the acts of their forefathers at all +festivals. That the old Lithuanians and Prussians loved and cultivated +poetry is proved by the enormous number of ancient songs, still remaining +among the common people, and by the testimony of chroniclers. We read that +during a grand festival on the occasion of the election of the +Grand-Master Winrych von Kniprode, a German Minnesinger, being honoured +with applause and a gold cup, a Prussian named Rizelus, was so encouraged +by this good reception of a poet, that he entreated for permission to sing +in his native Lithuanian tongue, and celebrated the deeds of the first +king of the Litwini, Wajdewut. The Grand-Master and the knights, not +understanding and disliking the Lithuanian speech, ridiculed the poet, and +gave him a present of a plate of empty nutshells. In Prussia the Crusaders +forbade officials and all who approached the court to use the Lithuanian +tongue, under penalty of death; they banished from the country, together +with the Jews and gipsies, the Wajdelotes, or Lithuanian bards, who alone +knew and could relate the national annals. Again in Lithuania, after the +introduction of the Christian faith and the Polish language, the ancient +priests and the native speech fell into disrepute, and were forgotten; +thence the common people, changed to serfs, and attached to the soil, +having abandoned the sword, also forgot those chivalric songs. Still +something has remained of their ancient annals and heroic verse, long +joined with superstition, communicated in secret to the people. Simon +Grunau, in the sixteenth century, came by accident on the Prussians at a +solemnity, and with difficulty saved his life, on promising the peasants, +that he never would reveal to any one what he should see or hear; then, +after performing sacrifice, an old Wajdelote began to sing the deeds of +the ancient Lithuanian heroes, mingling therewith prayers and moral +instructions. Grunau, who well understood Lithuanian, confesses that he +never expected to hear anything similar from the lips of a Lithuanian, +such was the beauty of the theme and the phraseology. + +(10) _“__Stands visibly the pestilential maid.__”_ + +The common people in Lithuania figure pestilential air under the form of a +maiden, whose appearance, here described according to the popular song, +precedes a terrible sickness. I quote, in substance at least, a ballad I +once heard in Lithuania: —“In a village appeared the maiden of the +pestilence; and, after her custom, thrusting her hand through door or +window, and waving a red cloth, scattered death through the houses. The +inhabitants shut themselves up in a state of siege, but hunger and other +necessities soon obliged them to neglect such means of safety; all +therefore awaited death. A certain gentleman, although well provided with +victuals, and able to maintain a long while this strange siege, yet +resolved to sacrifice himself for the good of his neighbours, took a sabre +of the time of the Sigismonds, on which was the name of Jesus and the name +of Mary, and thus armed, opened the window of the house. The gentleman, +with one stroke, cut off the spectre’s hand, and got possession of the +handkerchief. It is true he died, and all his family died; but from that +time the disease was never known in the village.” This handkerchief was +said to be preserved in the church, I do not recollect of what village. In +the East, before the appearance of the plague, a phantom with bats’ wings +is said to appear, and to point with its fingers at those condemned to +die. It appears as though popular imagination wished to present, by such +images, that mysterious foreboding and strange anxiety which usually +precedes great misfortune or destruction, and which often is shared, not +by individuals only, but by whole nations. Thus in Greece were forebodings +of the long duration and terrible results of the Peloponnesian war; in the +Roman Empire of the fall of monarchy; in America of the coming of the +Spaniards. + +(11) _“__The trees of Bialowiez.__”_ + +[The trees here referred to are of an immense age and extra-ordinary +height, challenging comparison with the giant trees of California. Many of +them were venerated as divinities by the pagans of Lithuania, in whose +religion tree and serpent worship formed a prominent feature. Oracles were +supposed to be given from a peculiar species of oak, called Baublis, ever +green both summer and winter. In the trunk of one of these, cut down about +the year 1845, there were counted 1417 rings.] + +(12) _“__Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.__”_ + +The Lithuanians used to burn prisoners of war, especially Germans, as +offerings to the gods. For this purpose was set aside the leader, or the +most distinguished of the knights for high descent and bravery; if several +had become prisoners, the unfortunate victim was chosen by lot. For +example, after the victory of the Lithuanians over the Crusaders, in the +year 1315, Stryjkowski says: “And Litwa and Zmudz (Samogitia) after this +victory, and after taking abundant spoil from their conquered and +thunder-stricken foes, when they had paid to their gods sacrifices and the +accustomed prayers, burnt alive a distinguished Crusader of the name of +Gerard Rudde, the chief of the prisoners, with the horse on which he made +war, and with the armour which he had worn, on a lofty pile of wood; and +with the smoke they sent his soul to heaven, and scattered his body to the +winds with the ashes.” + +(13) _“__They gave me the name of Walter.__”_ + +Walter von Stadion, a German knight, taken prisoner by the Lithuanians, +married the daughter of Kiejstut, and with her secretly departed from +Lithuania. It frequently occurred that Prussians and Lithuanians, carried +off as children, and educated in Germany, returned to their country, and +became the bitterest foes of the Germans. Thus the Prussian Herkus Monte +was remarkable in the annals of the Order. + +(14) _War._ + +The picture of this war is drawn from history. [The circumstances of +Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, no doubt largely furnished the painful and +realistic details in the text.] + +(15) _“__The secret tribunal descends to council.__”_ + +In the Middle Ages, when powerful dukes and barons frequently permitted +themselves great crimes, when the power of ordinary tribunals was too weak +to humble them, secret brotherhoods were formed, whose members, unknown to +one another, bound themselves by oath to punish the guilty, not pardoning +even their own friends or relatives. As soon as the secret judges had +pronounced the decree of death, the condemned man was made aware of it, by +a voice calling under his windows, or somewhere in his presence, the +word—_Weh!_ (woe!) This word, three times repeated, was a warning that he +who heard it should prepare for death, which he must infallibly and +unexpectedly receive from an unknown hand. The secret court was called the +_fehm_ tribunal (Vehmgericht) or Westphalian. It is difficult to determine +its origin; according to some writers it was instituted by Charlemagne. At +first necessary, it gave opportunity for many abuses later on, and +governments were forced to exercise severity occasionally against the +judges themselves, before this institution was completely overthrown. +[Scott’s graphic description in “Anne of Geierstein” of the court and +procedure of the Vehmgericht will be instantly suggested.] + +(16) _“__A sudden cry.__”_ + + _—__“__What cleaves the silent air,_ +_So madly shrill, so passing wild?_ +_It was a woman’s shriek, and ne’er_ +_In madlier ascents rose despair;_ +_And they who heard it as it passed,_ +_In mercy wished it were the last.__”_—PARISINA. + +[The coincidence, or borrowing of ideas, is manifest, but the image has +been amplified and beautified in the Polish poem.] + +_N.B._—In all the Polish words retained in the text, _j_ is pronounced +like _y_, and _w_ like _v_. + + PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. + + EDINBURGH AND LONDON. + + + + + + 1 Lithuanian woman. + + 2 Inhabitant of Rus (White Russia, Little Russia, also Red Russia, or + Galicia). + + 3 Pole. The native name of _Polska_ is derived from _pole_=field, and + _Lachy_=plain of the Lachs. + + 4 Bard. + + 5 “Exoriare aliquis ex ossibus nostris ultor.” + + —Æneid, B. iv. l. 625. + + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KONRAD WALLENROD*** + + + +CREDITS + + +October 9, 2010 + + Project Gutenberg TEI edition 1 + Produced by Jimmy O’Regan. 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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/34050-0.zip b/34050-0.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d704c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/34050-0.zip diff --git a/34050-8.txt b/34050-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..056216d --- /dev/null +++ b/34050-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3280 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Konrad Wallenrod by Adam Mickiewicz + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: Konrad Wallenrod + +Author: Adam Mickiewicz + +Release Date: October 9, 2010 [Ebook #34050] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO 8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KONRAD WALLENROD*** + + + + + + KONRAD WALLENROD. + + An Historical Poem. + + BY + + ADAM MICKIEWICZ. + + _TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH INTO ENGLISH VERSE_ + + BY + + MISS MAUDE ASHURST BIGGS. + + "Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere... + bisogna essere volpe e leone." + + MACCHIAVELLI, _Il Principe_. + + LONDON: + + TRBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. + + 1882. + + _[All rights reserved]_ + + + + + +CONTENTS + + +AUTHOR'S PREFACE +TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE +Introduction. +I. The Election. +II. +III. +IV. The Festival. +V. War. +VI. The Parting. +NOTES. + + + + + + + Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co. + + _Edinburgh and London_ + + + + + +AUTHOR'S PREFACE + + +THE Lithuanian nation, formed out of the tribes of the Litwini, Prussians +and Leti, not very numerous, settled in an inextensive country, not very +fertile, long unknown to Europe, was called, about the thirteenth century, +by the incursions of its neighbours, to a more active part. When the +Prussians submitted to the swords of the Teutonic knights, the +Lithuanians, issuing from their forests and marshes, annihilated with +sword and fire the neighbouring empires, and soon became terrible in the +north. History has not as yet satisfactorily explained by what means a +nation so weak, and so long tributary to foreigners, was able all at once +to oppose and threaten all its enemies--on one side, carrying on a constant +and murderous war with the Teutonic Order; on the other, plundering +Poland, exacting tribute from Great Novgorod, and pushing itself as far as +the borders of the Wolga and the Crimean peninsula. The brightest period +of Lithuanian history occurs in the time of Olgierd and Witold, whose rule +extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea. But this monstrous empire, +having sprung up too quickly, could not create in itself internal +strength, to unite and invigorate its differing portions. The Lithuanian +nationality, spread over too large a surface of territory, lost its proper +character. The Litwini subjugated many Russian tribes, and entered into +political relations with Poland. The Slavs, long since Christians, stood +in a higher degree of civilisation, and although conquered, or threatened +by Lithuania, gained by gradual influence a moral preponderance over their +strong, but barbarous tyrants, and absorbed them, as the Chinese their +Tartar invaders. The Jagellons, and their more powerful vassals, became +Poles; many Lithuanian princes adopted the Russian religion, language, and +nationality. By these means the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ceased to be +Lithuanian; the nation proper found itself within its former boundaries, +its speech ceased to be the language of the court and nobility, and was +only preserved among the common people. Litwa presents the singular +spectacle of a people which disappeared in the immensity of its conquests, +as a brook sinks after an excessive overflow, and flows in a narrower bed +than before. + +The circumstances here mentioned are covered by some centuries. Both +Lithuania, and her cruellest enemy, the Teutonic Order, have disappeared +from the scene of political life; the relations between neighbouring +nations are entirely changed; the interests and passions which kindled the +wars of that time are now expired; even popular song has not preserved +their memory. Litwa is now entirely in the past: her history presents from +this circumstance a happy theme for poetry; so that a poet, in singing of +the events of that time, objects only of historic interest, must occupy +himself with searching into, and with artfully rendering the subject, +without summoning to his aid the interests, passions, or fashions of his +readers. For such subjects Schiller recommended poets to seek. + +"Was unsterblich im Gesang will leben, +Muss im Leben untergehen." + + + + + +TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE + + +THE Teutonic Order, originally, like the Knights Hospitallers, established +in the Holy Land about 1199, settled, after the cessation of the Crusades, +in the country bordering upon the Baltic Sea, at the mouth of the Vistula, +in the year 1225. The possession of the Baltic shores, and of such lands +as the Order should conquer from the pagan Prussians and Litwini, was +assured to them by Konrad, Duke of Masowsze, brother to Leszek the White +of Poland. The fatal error thus committed, in abandoning a hold on the +sea-coast, had afterwards a disastrous effect on the history of Poland. +The Order speedily made themselves masters of the whole country of +Prussia, and were engaged in ceaseless war with the pagans of Lithuania, +under pretext of their conversion; more frequently, it is however to be +feared, for purposes of raid and plunder. It is, in fact, upon record that +a certain Lithuanian prince, who had offered to embrace Christianity for +the purpose of recovering part of his territory conquered by the Order, +upon finding that his conversion would produce no better disposition in +them towards himself, declared his intention of abiding in paganism, with +the remark that he saw it was no question of his faith, but of his +possessions. The plundering expeditions of the Teutonic knights up +country, in which many of the chivalry of all Europe frequently bore a +part, were termed _reyses_. The English reader will remember how Chaucer's +knight had fought "aboven alle nations in Pruce." + + "In _Lettow had he reysed_ and in Ruce." + +Henry IV. also, during his banishment, fought in the ranks of the Order. + +After the conversion of Lithuania, and the union of that country with +Poland, the Teutonic knights were frequently engaged in hostilities with +both powers combined, sustaining in the year 1410 a terrible defeat at +Tannenberg in E. Prussia, from the forces of Jagellon. In this battle it +is worthy of note that the famous John Ziska was engaged. In 1466 Casimir +Jagellon inflicted heavy losses on the Order. After its secularisation in +1521, when the Grand-Master Albert embraced the reformed faith, the +domains of E. Prussia were held as a fief from Poland. In 1657 Prussia +became an independent state under Frederick William, the great Elector. It +is curious to observe how the name of Prussia, originally that of a +conquered, non-Germanic people, has become in our time that of the first +German power in the world. + +The historical circumstances on which the poem of "Konrad Wallenrod" is +founded are thus detailed at length by the author himself, in the +following postscript to the work:-- + +"We have called our story historical, for the characters of the actors, +and all the more important circumstances mentioned therein, are sketched +according to history. The contemporary chronicles, in fragmentary and +broken portions, must be filled out sometimes only by guesses and +conjectures, in order to create some historic entirety from them. Although +I have permitted myself conjectures in the history of Wallenrod, I hope to +justify them by their likeness to truth. According to the chronicle, +Konrad Wallenrod was not descended from the family of Wallenrod renowned +in Germany, though he gave himself out as a member of it. He was said to +have been born of some illicit connection. The royal chronicle says, 'Er +war ein Pfaffenkind.' Concerning the character of this singular man, we +read many and contradictory traditions. The greater number of the +chroniclers reproach him with pride, cruelty, drunkenness, severity +towards his subordinates, little zeal for religion, and even with hatred +for ecclesiastics. 'Er war ein rechter Leuteschinder (library of +Wallenrod). Nach Krieg, Zank, und Hader hat sein Herz immer gestanden; und +ob er gleich ein Gott ergebener Mensch von wegen seines Ordens sein +wollte, doch ist er allen frommen geistlichen Menschen Grael gewesen. +(David Lucas). Er regierte nicht lange, denn Gott plagte ihn inwendig mit +dem laufenden Feuer.' On the other hand, contemporary writers ascribe to +him greatness of intellect, courage, nobility, and force of character; +since without rare qualities he could not have maintained his empire amid +universal hatred and the disasters which he brought upon the Order. Let us +now consider the proceedings of Wallenrod. When he assumed the rule of the +Order, the season appeared favourable for war with Lithuania, for Witold +had promised himself to lead the Germans to Wilna, and liberally repay +them for their assistance. Wallenrod, however, delayed to go to war; and, +what was worse, offended Witold, and reposed such careless confidence in +him, that this prince, having secretly become reconciled to Jagellon, not +only departed from Prussia, but on the road, entering the German castles, +burnt them as an enemy, and slaughtered the garrisons. In such an +unimagined change of circumstances, it was needful to neglect the war, or +undertake it with great prudence. The Grand-Master proclaimed a crusade, +wasted the treasures of the Order in preparation--5,000,000 marks--a sum at +that time immeasurable, and marched towards Lithuania. He could have +captured Wilna, if he had not wasted time in banquets and waiting for +auxiliaries. Autumn came; Wallenrod, leaving the camp without provisions, +retired in the greatest disorder to Prussia. The chroniclers and later +historians were not able to imagine the cause of this sudden departure, +not finding in contemporary circumstances any cause therefor. Some have +assigned the flight of Wallenrod to derangement of intellect. All the +contradictions mentioned in the character and conduct of our hero may be +reconciled with each other, if we suppose that he was a Lithuanian, and +that he had entered the Order to take vengeance on it; especially since +his rule gave the severest shock to the power of the Order. We suppose +that Wallenrod was Walter Stadion (see note), shortening only by some +years the time which passed between the departure of Walter from +Lithuania, and the appearance of Konrad in Marienbourg. Wallenrod died +suddenly in the year 1394; strange events were said to have accompanied +his death. 'Er starb,' says the chronicle; 'in Raserei ohne letzte +Oehlung, ohne Priestersegen, kurz vor seinem Tode wtheten Strme, +Regensgsse, Wasserfluthen; die Weichsel und die Nogat durchwhlten ihre +Dmme; hingegen whlten die gewsser sich eine neue Tiefe da, wo jetzt +Pilau steht!' Halban, or, as the chroniclers call him, Doctor Leander von +Albanus, a monk, the solitary and inseparable companion of Wallenrod, +though he assumed the appearance of piety, was according to the +chroniclers a heretic, a pagan, and perhaps a wizard. Concerning Halban's +death, there are no certain accounts. Some write that he was drowned, +others that he disappeared secretly, or was carried away by demons. I have +drawn the chronicles chiefly from the works of Kotzebue, 'Preussens +Geschichte, Belege und Erluterungen.' Hartknoch, in calling Wallenrod +'unsinnig,' gives a very short account of him." + +As to the conditions under which the poem was written, it is perhaps +needful to state that it was composed by Mickiewicz, during the term of +his banishment into Russia, and was first published at St. Petersburg in +the year 1828. In the character of the hero of the story, and in various +circumstances of the poem, it is impossible not to recognise the influence +of Lord Byron's poetry, which obtained so powerful an ascendency over the +works and imaginations of the Continental romanticists, and had thus an +influence over foreign literature not conceded in the poet's own country. +The Byronic character, however, presents a far nobler aspect in the hands +of the present author than in those of its original creator; for, instead +of being the outcome of a mere morbid self-concentration, and brooding +over personal wrongs, it is the result of a noble indignation for the +sufferings of others, and is conjoined with a high purpose for good, even +though such good be worked out by means in themselves doubtful or +questionable. + +We cannot pass by the subject without saying a word as to the undercurrent +of political meaning in "Konrad Wallenrod," which fortunately escaped the +rigid censorship of the Russian press. Lithuania, conquered and oppressed +by the Teutonic Order, is Poland, subjugated by Russia; and the numerous +expressions of hatred for oppressors and love of an unhappy country woven +into the substance of the narrative must be read as the utterances of a +Pole against Russian tyranny. The underhand machinations of the concealed +enemy against the state in which he is a powerful leader, may be held to +figure that intricate web of intrigue and conspiracy which Russian +liberalism is gradually weaving throughout the whole political system, and +which is daily gaining influence and power. The character of Wallenrod is +essentially the same as that of Cooper's "Spy;" but we cannot suppose that +the author intended to hold up trickery and deceit as praiseworthy and +honourable, even though it is the sad necessity of slaves to use treachery +as their only weapon; or that the Macchiavellian precept with which the +story is headed is at all intended as one to be generally followed by +seekers of political liberty against despotism. The end and aim of this, +as of all the works of Mickiewicz, is to show us a great and noble soul, +noble in spite of many errors and vices, striving to work out a high +ideal, and the fulfilment of a noble purpose; and to exhibit the heroism +of renunciation of personal ease and enjoyment for the sake of the world's +or a nation's good. + +In regard to the method used in the English version, it is only necessary +to add that as far as possible verbal accuracy in rendering has been +endeavoured after; and an attempt, at least conscientious--whether or not +partially successful must be left to the sentence of those qualified to +form an opinion--has been made to reproduce as nearly as may be something +of the original spirit In translating the main body of the narrative blank +verse has been the medium employed, not as at all representing the +beautiful and harmonious interchange of rhymes and play of rhythm so +conspicuous in the Polish lines; but as securing, by reason of freedom +from the necessity for rhymes, a truer verbal rendering, and as being the +measure par excellence best suited to English narrative verse. The +"Wajdelote's Tale" has for similar reasons been rendered into the same +form, instead of being reproduced in the original hexameter stanza, as +strange to the Polish as to the English tongue, wherein, despite the works +of Longfellow and Clough, it can hardly be said to have yet become +thoroughly naturalised. Most of the lyrics are translated into the same +metres as the originals, with the sole exception of the ballad of +Alpujara. This, as being upon a Spanish or Moorish subject, it was judged +best to render into a form nearly resembling that of the ancient Spanish +ballad, and employed by Bishop Percy in translation of the "Rio Verde," +and other poems from a like source. Moreover, the original "Alpujara" is +couched in a metre which, though extremely well suited to the Polish +tongue, is difficult of imitation in English; or only to be imitated by +great loss of accuracy in rendering. + +In concluding, the translator begs to express a hope that this humble +effort to present, however feebly, to the reading public of Great Britain +an image of the work of the greatest of Polish poets, may, not be wholly +unacceptable. Any defects which the critical eye may note, must +undoubtedly be laid rather to the charge of the copyist, than to the +original of the great master. I dare, however, to trust, that the shadow +of so great a name, and the sincere wish to contribute this slender homage +to the memory of one of Europe's most illustrious writers, may serve as an +excuse for over-presumption. + +LONDON, _March_ 1882. + + + + + + KONRAD WALLENROD + + _AN HISTORICAL TALE._ + + (FROM THE ANNALS OF LITHUANIA AND PRUSSIA.) + +"Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere... bisogna +essere volpe e leone." + + MACCHIAVELLI, _Il Principe_. + + + + + +INTRODUCTION. + + +A HUNDRED years have passed since first the Order +Waded in blood of Northern heathenesse; +The Prussian now had bent his neck to chains, +Or, yielding up his heritage, removed +With life alone. The German followed after, +Tracking the fugitive; he captive made +And murdered unto Litwa's farthest bound. + +Niemen divideth Litwa from the foe; +On one side gleam the sanctuary fanes, +And forests murmur, dwellings of the gods. +Upon the other shore the German ensign, +The cross, implanted on a hill, doth veil +Its forehead in the clouds, and stretches forth +Its threatening arms towards Litwa, as it would +Gather all lands of Palemon together, +Embrace them all, assembled 'neath its rule. + +This side, the multitude of Litwa's youth, +With _kolpak_ of the lynx-hide and in skins +Clad of the bear, the bow upon their shoulders, +Their hands all filled with darts, they prowl around, +Tracking the German wiles. On the other side, +In mail and helmet armed, the German sits +Upon his charger motionless; while fixed +His eyes upon the entrenchments of the foe, +He loads his arquebuse and counts his beads. + +And these and those alike the passage guard. +The Niemen thus, of hospitable fame, +In ancient days, uniting heritage +Of brother nations, now for them becomes +The threshold of eternity, and none, +But by foregoing liberty or life, +Cross the forbidden waters. Only now +A trailer of the Lithuanian hop, +Drawn by allurement of the Prussian poplar, +Stretches its fearless arms, as formerly, +Leaping the river, with luxuriant wreaths, +Twines with its loved one on a foreign shore. +The nightingales from Kowno's groves of oak +Still with their brethren of Zapuszczan mount, +Converse, as once, in Lithuanian speech. +Or having on free pinions 'scaped, they fly, +As guests familiar, on the neutral isles. + +And mankind?--War has severed human kind! +The ancient love of nations has departed +Into oblivion. Love by time alone +Uniteth human hearts.--Two hearts I knew. + +O Niemen! soon upon thy fords shall rush +Hosts bearing death and burning, and thy shores, +Sacred till now, the axe shall render bare +Of all their garlands; soon the cannon's roar +Shall from the gardens fright the nightingales. +Where nature with a golden chain hath bound, +The hatred of the nations shall divide; +It severs all things. But the hearts of lovers +Shall in the Wajdelote's song unite once more. + + + + + +THE ELECTION. + + +In towers of Marienbourg1 the bells are ringing, +The cannon thunder loud, the drums are beating. +This in the Order is a solemn day. +The Komturs hasten to the capital, +Where, gathered in the chapter's conclave, they, +The Holy Spirit invoked, take counsel who +Is worthiest to bear the mighty sword,-- +Into whose hands may they confide the sword? +One day, and yet another flowed away +In council; many heroes there contend. +And all alike of noble race, and all +Alike deserving in the Order's cause. +But hitherto the brethren's general voice +Placed Wallenrod the highest over all + +A stranger he, in Prussia all unknown, +But foreign houses of his fame were full2 +Following the Moors upon Castilian sierras, +The Ottoman through ocean's troubled waves, +In battle at the front, first on the wall, +To grapple vessels of the infidel +The first; and in the tourney, soon as he +Entered the lists and deigned his visor raise, +None dared with him the strife of keen-edged swords,3 +By one accord the victor's garland yielding. +But not alone amid Crusading hosts +He with the sword had glorified his youth; +For many Christian graces him adorn, +Poverty, humbleness, of earth disdain. + +But Konrad shone not in the courtly crowd +By polished speech, by well-turned reverence; +Nor e'er his sword for vile advantage sold +To service of disputing barons. He +Had consecrated to the cloister walls +His youthful years; all plaudits he disdained, +And ruler's place, even higher, sweeter meeds. +Nor minstrel's hymn, nor beauty's fair regard +Could speak to his cold spirit. Wallenrod +Listens unmoved to praise, and looks afar +On lovely cheeks, enchanting discourse flies. + +Had Nature made him thus unfeeling, proud? +Or age? For albeit young in years, his locks +Were grey already, withered were his looks, +And sufferings sealed by age.--Twere hard to guess. +He would at times divide the sports of youth, +Or listen, pleased, to sound of female tongues, +To courtiers' jests reply with other jests; +Or scatter unto ladies courteous words +With chilly smile, as dainties cast to children-- +These were rare moments of forgetfulness;-- +And speedily some light, unmeaning word, +That had no sense for others, woke in him +Passionate stirrings. These words: Fatherland, +Duty, Beloved,--the mention of Crusades, +And Litwa, all the mirth of Wallenrod +Instantly poisoned. Hearing them, again +He turned away his countenance, again +Became to all around insensible, +And buried him in thoughts mysterious. +Maybe, remembering his holy call, +He would forbid himself the sweets of earth; +The sweets of friendship only did he know, +One only friend had chosen to himself, +A saint by virtue and by holy state. +This was a hoary monk; men called him Halban. +He shared the loneliness of Wallenrod; +He was alike confessor of his soul, +And of his heart the trusted confidant +O blessed friendship! saint is he on earth, +Whom friendship with the holy ones unites. +Thus do the leaders of the Order's council +Discourse of Konrad's virtues. But one fault +Was his,--for who may spotless be from faults? +Konrad loved not the riots of the world, +Nor mingled Konrad in the drunken feast. +Though truly, in his secret chamber locked, +When weariness or sorrow tortured him, +He sought for solace in a burning draught; +And then he seemed a new form to indue, +And then his visage pallid and severe +A sickly red adorned, and his large eyes, +Erst heavenly blue, but somewhat now by time +Dulled and extinguished, shot the lightnings forth +Of ancient fires, while sighs of grief escape +From forth his breast, and with the pearly tear +The laden eyelid swells; the hand the lute +Seeks, the lips pour forth songs; the songs are sung +In speech of a strange land, but yet the hearts +Of the hearers understand them. 'Tis enough +To list that grave-like music, 'tis enough +The singer's form to contemplate, to see +Memory's inspiration on that face, +To view the lifted brows and sideward looks, +Striving to snatch some object from deep darkness. +What may the hidden thread be of the songs? +He tracketh surely, in this wandering chase, +In thought his youth through deep gulfs of the past. +Where is his soul?--In the land of memories! + +But never did that hand in music's impulse +Mere joyful tones from out the lute evoke; +And still it seemed his countenance did fear +Innocent smiles, even as deadly sins. +All strings he strikes in turn, one string except-- +Except the string of mirth;--the hearer shares +All feelings with him,--one excepted--hope! + +Not seldom him the brethren have surprised, +And marvelled at his unaccustomed change. +Konrad, aroused, did writhe himself and rage, +Had cast away the lute and ceased to sing. +He spoke out loudly impious words; to Halban +Whispered some secret things; called to the host, +Gave forth commands, and uttered dreadful threats, +On whom they knew not. All their hearts were troubled. +Old Halban tranquil sits, and on the face +Of Konrad drowns his glance,--a piercing glance, +Cold and severe, full of some secret speech. +Something he may recall, some counsel give, +Or waken grief in heart of Wallenrod, +Whose cloudy brow at once is calm again, +His eyes forego their fires, his rage is cool. + +Thus when, in public sport, the lionward, +Before assembled lords, and dames, and knights, +Unbars the grating of the iron cage. +The trumpet signal given, the royal beast +Growls from his deep breast, horror falls on all. +Alone his keeper moveth not a step, +Folds tranquilly upon his breast his hands, +And smites with power the lion,--by the eye. +With talisman of an undying soul +Unreasoning strength in bonds he doth control. + + + + + +II. + + +In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing; +Now from the hall of council to the chapel +Comes the chief Komtur, then the chiefest rulers, +The chaplain, brothers, and assembled knights. +The chapter listen vesper orisons, +And sing a hymn unto the Holy Spirit + + HYMN. + + Spirit! Thou Holy One, + Thou Dove of Sion's Hill! +This Christian world, the footstool of Thy throne, + With glory visible + Lighten, that all behold. +Thy wings o'er Sion's brotherhood unfold, +And let Thy glory shine from underneath + Thy wings, with sunlike rays. +And him, the worthiest of so holy praise, +Circle his temples with Thy golden wreath. +Fall on the visage of that son of man, +Whom shadows o'er Thy wings' protecting van. + + Thou Saviour Son! +With beckoning of Thy hand almighty, deign + To point of many one, + Worthiest to hold, +And wear the sacred symbol of Thy pain. +To lead with Peter's sword thy soldiery, + Before the eyes of heathenesse unfold + The standards of Thy heavenly empery. +Then let the sons of earth bow lowly down, +Him on whose breast the cross shall gleam to own. + +Prayers o'er, they parted. The Archkomtur4 ordered +After repose, to seek the choir again; +Again entreat that Heaven would enlighten +Chaplains and brethren, called to such election. + +So went they forth themselves to recreate +With the cool freshness of the night; and some +Sat in the castle porch, and others walk +Through gardens and through groves. The night was still; +It was the fair May season; from afar +Peeped forth the pale uncertain dawn; the moon, +Having the sapphire plains o'ercoursed, with aspect +Changing, with varying lustre in her eye, +Now in a shadowy, now a silvery cloud +Slumbering, now sank her still and tranquil head, +Like to a lover in the wilderness; +Dreaming in thought, life's circle he o'erruns, +All hopes, all sweetness, and all sufferings. +Now sheds he tears, now joyful is his glance. +At length upon his breast the weary brow +Sinketh, and falls in sense's lethargy. + +By walking other knights beguile the time, +But the Archkomtur wastes no time in vain. +He quickly summons Halban and the chiefs +Unto himself, and leads them to one side; +That, from the curious crowd afar removed, +They may pursue their counsels and impart +Forewarnings; from the castle go they forth. +They hasten to the plain. Conversing thus, +All heedless of their path, some hours astray +They wandered in the region close beside +The inlets of a tranquil lake. 'Tis morn! +This hour they should regain the capital. +They stop,--a voice,--whence? From the corner tower! +They listen,--'tis the voice of the recluse! +Long time within this tower, ten summers since, +Some unknown pious woman, from afar,5 +Who came to Mary's town,--Maybe that Heaven +Inspired her blest design, or with the balm +Of penance she would heal the wounds of conscience,-- +Did seek the shelter of a lone recluse, +And here she found while living yet a tomb. + +Long time the chaplains would not give consent. +Then, wearied by the constancy of prayers, +They gave her in this tower a shelter lone. +Scarcely the sacred threshold had she crossed, +When o'er the threshold bricks and stones were piled; +The angels only, in the judgment-day +Shall ope the door which parts her from the living. + +Above a little window and a grate, +Whereby the pious folk send nourishment, +And Heaven sends breezes and the rays of day. +Poor sinner! was it hatred of the world +Abused thy young heart to so great extreme +That thou dost fear the sun. and heaven's fair face? +Scarcely imprisoned in her living grave, +None saw her, through the window of the tower, +Receive upon her lips the wind's fresh breath, +Nor look upon the heaven in sunshine beauty, +Or the sweet flowerets on the plain of earth, +Or, dearer hundred-fold, her fellow-men. + +'Tis only known that still she is in life; +For when betimes a holy pilgrim wanders +Near her retreat by night, a sweet, low sound +Holds him awhile. Certain it is the sound +Of pious hymns. And when the village children +Together in the oak-grove sport at eve, +Then from the window shines a streak of white, +As 'twere a sunbeam from the rising dawn. +Is it an amber ringlet of her hair, +Or lustre of her slender, snowy hand +Blessing those innocent heads? The chivalry +Hear as they pass the corner tower these words: +"Thou art Konrad! Heaven! Fate is now fulfilled! +Thou shalt be Master, that thou mayest destroy them! +Will they not recognise?--Thou hid'st in vain. +Though like the serpent's were thy body changed, +Yet of the past would in thy soul remain +Many things still,--truly they cleave to me. +Though after burial thou shouldst return, +Then, even then, would the Crusaders know thee!" +The knights attend,--'tis the recluse's voice; +They look upon the grate; she bending seems, +Towards the earth she seems her arms to stretch. +To whom? The region is all desert round; +Only from far strikes an uncertain gleam, +In likeness of a steely helmet's flame, +A shadow on the earth, a knightly cloak;-- +Already it has vanished. Certainly +'Twas an illusion of the eyes, most certain +It was the rosy glance of morn that gleamed. +For morning's clouds now rolled away from earth. + +"Brothers!" spoke Halban, "give we thanks to Heaven, +For certain Heaven's decree hath led us here; +Trust we to the recluse's prophet voice. +Heard ye? She made a prophecy of Konrad,-- +Konrad, the name of valiant Wallenrod! +Let brother unto brother give the hand, +And knightly word, and in to-morrow's council +Our Master he!"6--"Agreed," they cried, "agreed!" + +And shouting went they. Far along the vale +Resounds the voice of triumph and of joy; +"Long Konrad live! long the Grand-Master live! +Long live the Order! perish heathenesse!" + +Halban remained behind, in deep thought plunged; +He on the shouters cast an eye of scorn +He looked towards the tower, and in low tones, +This song he sang, departing from the place:-- + + SONG. + +Wilija, thou parent of streams in our land, +Heaven-blue is thy visage and golden thy sand; +But, lovely Litwinka,(1) who drinkest its wave, +Far purer thy heart, and thy beauty more brave. + +Wilija, thou flowest through Kowno's fair vale, +Amid the gay tulips and narcissus pale. +At the feet of the maiden, the flower of our youth, +Than roses, than tulips, far fairer in sooth. + +The Wilija despiseth the valley of flowers, +She seeks to the Niemen, her lover, to rove; +The Litwinka listens no love-tale of ours, +The youth of the strangers has filled her with love. + +In powerful embrace doth the Niemen enfold, +And beareth o'er rocks and o'er wild deserts lone; +He presses his love to his bosom so cold, +They perish together in sea-depths unknown. + +Thee too, poor Litwinka, the stranger shall call +Away from the joys of that sweet native vale; +Thou deep in Forgetfulness' billows must fall, +But sadder thy fate, for alone thou must fail. + +For streamlet and heart by no warning are crost, +The maiden will love and the Wilija will run; +And in her loved Niemen the Wilija is lost, +In the dark prison-tower weeps the maiden undone. + + + + + +III. + + +When the Grand-Master had the sacred books +Kissed of the holy laws, and from the Komtur +Received the sword and grand cross, ensigns high +Of power, he raised his haughty brow. Although +A cloud of care weighed on him, with his eye +He scattered fire around him. In his glance +Burns exultation, half with anger mixed,-- +And, guest invisible, upon his face +Hovered a faint and transitory smile, +Like lightning which divides the morning cloud, +Boding at once the sunrise and the thunder. + +The Master's zeal, his threatening countenance, +All hearts with hope and newer courage fills; +Battle before them they behold and plunder, +And pour in thought great floods of pagan blood. +Who shall against such ruler dare to stand? +Who will not fear his sabre or his glance? +Tremble, Litwini! for the time is near, +From Wilna's ramparts when the cross shall shine. + +Vain are their hopes, for days and weeks flew by; +In peace a whole long year has flowed away, +And Litwa threatens. Wallenrod, ignobly +Himself nor combats, nor goes out to war; +And when he rouses and begins to act, +Reverses the old ruling suddenly. + +He cries, "The Order has o'erstepped its laws, +The brethren violate their plighted vows. +Let us engage in prayer, renounce our treasures, +And seek in virtue and in peace renown." +To penance he compels them, fasts, and burdens; +Denies all pleasures, comforts innocent; +Each venial sin doth cruelly chastise +With dungeons underground, exile, the sword. + +Meanwhile the Litwin, who long years afar +Had shunned the portals of the Order's town, +Now burns the villages around each night, +And captive their defenceless people takes. +Beneath the very castle proudly boasts, +He in the Master's chapel goes to mass. +And children trembled on their parents' threshold, +To hear the roar of Samogitia's horn. + +What time were better to begin a war +While Litwa by internal strife is torn? +Here the bold Rusin,(2) here the unquiet Lach,(3) +The Crimean Khans lead on a mighty host; +And Witold, by Jagellon dispossessed, +Has come to seek protection of the Order; +In recompense doth promise gold and land, +But hitherto for help he waits in vain. + +The brothers murmur, council now assembles, +The Master is not seen. Old Halban hastes, +But in the castle, in the chapel finds +Not Konrad. Whither is he? At the tower! +The brotherhood have tracked his steps by night. +'Tis known to all; for at the evening hour, +When all the earth is veiled with thickest mists, +He sallies forth to wander by the lake. +Or on his knees, supported by the wall, +Draped in his mantle, till the white dawn gleams, +He lieth, moveless as a marble form, +And unsubdued by sleep the whole night long. +Oft at the soft voice of the fair recluse +He rises, and returns her low replies. +No ear their import can discern afar; +But from the lustre of the shaking helm, +View of the lifted head, unquiet hands, +'Tis seen some discourse pends of weighty things. + + SONG FROM THE TOWER. + +Ah! who shall number all my tears and sighs? +Have I so long wept through these weary years? +Was such great bitterness in heart and eyes, +That all this grate is rusty with my tears? +Where falls the tear it penetrates the stone, +As in a good man's heart 'twere sinking down. + +A fire eternal burns in Swentorog's halls;7 +Its pious priests for ever feed the fire: +From Mendog's hill a fount eternal falls; +The snows and storm-clouds swell it ever higher. +None feed the torrent of my sighs and tears, +Yet pain for ever heart and eyeballs sears. + +A father's care, a mother's tender love, +And a rich castle and a joyous land, +Days without longing, nights no dream might move +Peace like a tranquil angel aye did stand +Near me, abroad, at home, by day and night, +Guarding me close, though viewless to the sight. + +Three lovely daughters from one mother born, +And I the first demanded as a bride; +Happy in youth, happy in joys to be, +Who told me there were other joys beside? +O lovely youth! why didst thou tell me more +Than e'er in Litwa any knew before? + +Of the great God, of angels bright as day, +Of stone-built cities where religion rests, +Where in rich churches all the people pray, +Where princely lords obey their maidens' hests; +Like to our warriors great in warlike pains, +Tender in love as are our shepherd swains. + +Where man, from covering of clay set free, +A winged soul, flies through a joyful heaven. +I could believe it, for in listening thee +I had a foretaste of those wonders even. +Ah! since that time, in good and evil plight, +I dream of thee and those fair heavens bright. + +The cross upon thy breast rejoiced mine eyes; +The sign of future bliss therein I read. +Alas! when from the cross the thunder flies, +All things around are silenced, perished. +Nought I regret, though bitter tears I pour; +Thou tookest all from me, but hope leftst o'er. + +"Hope!" the low echoes from the shore replied, +The valleys and the forest Konrad woke, +And laughing wildly, answered, "Where am I? +To hear in this place--hope? Wherefore this song? +I do recall thy vanished happiness. +Three lovely daughters from one mother born, +And thou the first demanded as a bride. +Woe unto you, fair flowers! woe to you! +A fearful viper crept into the garden, +And where the reptile's livid breast has touched +The grass is withered and the roses fade, +And yellow as the reptile's bosom grow. +Fly from the present in thought; recall the days +Which thou hadst spent in joyousness without-- +Thou'rt silent! Raise thy voice again and curse; +Let not the dreadful tear which pierces stones +Perish in vain. My helmet I'll remove. +Here let it fall; I am prepared to suffer; +Would learn betimes what waiteth me in hell. + + VOICE FROM THE TOWER. + +Pardon, my loved one, pardon! I am guilty! +Late was thy coming, weary 'twas to wait, +And thus, despite myself, some childish song-- +Away with it! What have I to regret? +With thee, my love, with thee a passing space +We lived through; but the memory of that time +I would not change with all earth's habitants, +For tranquil life passed through in weariness. +Thyself didst say to me that common men +Are as those shells deep hidden in the marsh; +Scarce once a year by some tempestuous wave +Cast up, they peep from out the troubled water, +Open their lips, and sigh forth once towards heaven, +And to their burial once more return. +No! I am not created for such bliss. +While yet within my Fatherland I dwelt +A still life, sometimes in my comrades' midst +A longing seized me, and I sighed in secret, +And felt unquiet throbbings in my heart; +And sometimes fled I from the lower plain, +And standing on the higher hill, I thought, +If but the larks would give me from their wings +One feather only, I would fly with them, +And only from this mountain wish to pluck +One little flower, the flower forget-me-not, +And then afar beyond the clouds to fly +Higher and higher, and to disappear! +And thou didst hear me! Thou, with eagle pinions, +Monarch of birds, didst raise me to thyself. +O now, ye larks, I beg for nought from you, +For whither should she fly, what pleasures seek, +Who has the great God learned to know in heaven, +And loved a great man on this lower world? + + KONRAD. + +Greatness, and greatness yet again, mine angel! +Greatness for which we groan in misery! +A few days still,--let it torment the heart,-- +A few days only, fewer already are. +'Tis done! 'Tis vain to grieve for vanished time. +Aye! let us weep, but let our proud foes tremble! +For Konrad wept, but 'twas to murder them! +But wherefore cam'st thou here--wherefore, my love? +Unto God's service did I vow myself. +Was it not better in His holy walls, +Afar from me to live and die than here, +In the land of lying and of murderous war, +In this tower-grave by long and painful tortures +To expire, and open solitary eyes, +And through the unbroken fetters of this grate +Implore for help, and I be forced to hear, +To look upon the torture of long death, +Standing afar, and curse my very soul, +That harbours relics yet of tenderness? + + VOICE FROM THE TOWER. + +If thou lamentest, hither come no more! +Though thou shouldst come, with burning zeal implore, +Thou shouldst hear nought. My window now I close, +Descend once more into my prison darkness. +Let me in silence drink my bitter tears. +Farewell for aye, farewell, my only one! +And let the memory perish of this hour, +Wherein thou didst no pity for me show. + + KONRAD. + +Then thou have pity! for thou art an angel! +Stay! But if prayer is powerless to restrain, +On the tower's angle will I strike my head; +I will implore thee by the death of Cain. + + VOICE FROM THE TOWER. + +O let us both have pity on ourselves! +My love, remember, great as is this world, +Two of us only on this mighty earth, +Upon the seas of sand two drops of dew. +Scarce breathes a little wind, from the earthly vale +For aye we vanish--ah! together perish! +I came not here for this, to torture thee. +I would not on me take the holy vows, +Because I dared not pledge my heart to Heaven, +While yet in it an earthly lover reigned. +I in the cloister would remain, and humbly +Devote my days to service of the nuns. +But there without thee, everything around +Was all so new, so wild, so strange to me! +Remembering then that after many years, +Thou shouldst return again to Mary's town +To seek for vengeance on the enemy, +The cause defending of a hapless folk, +I said unto myself, "Who waits long years +Shortens with thoughts; maybe he now returns, +Maybe is come. Is it not free to ask, +Though living I immure me in the grave, +That once more I may look upon thy face, +That I at least may perish near to thee? +And therefore to the hermit's narrow house +Upon the road, upon the broken rock, +I will betake me, and enclose myself. +Some knight maybe, in passing by my hut, +May speak aloud by chance my loved one's name; +Among the foreign helmets I may view +His crest; though changed the fashion of his arms, +Although a strange device adorn his shield, +Although his face be changed, even then my heart +Will recognise my lover from afar. +And when a heavy duty him compels +To shed the blood of all and to destroy, +And all shall curse him, one heart yet alone +Shall dare afar to bless him." Here I chose +My habitation and my grave apart, +In silence, where the sacrilege of groans +The traveller dare not listen. Thou, I know, +Lovest to walk alone. Within myself +I thought, "Maybe at even he will come, +Having his comrades left behind, to hold +Converse with winds and billows of the lake; +And he will think of me and hear my voice." +And Heaven did fulfil my innocent wish. +Thou earnest; thou didst understand my song. +I prayed in former times that dreams might bless +Me with thine image, though the form were mute: +To-day, what happiness! To-day, together,-- +Together we may weep! + + KONRAD. + + And wherefore weep? +I wept, thou dost remember, when I tore +Myself for ever from thy dear embrace, +And of my free will died from happiness, +That thus I might designs of blood fulfil. +That too long martyrdom at length is crowned. +Now stand I at the summit of desires; +I can revenge me on the enemy. +And thou hast come to tear my victory from me! +Till now, when from the window of thy turret +Thou didst look on me, in the world's whole circle +Again there seemed no thing to meet my eye, +But the lake only, and the tower and grate. +Around me all with tumult seethes of war. +'Mid trumpet clamour, 'mid the clash of arms, +I seek impatient with a straining ear, +For the angelic sound of thy sweet lips, +And all the day for me is waiting hope. +And when the evening season I have reached, +I wish to lengthen it by memories: +I reckon by its evenings all my life. +Meanwhile the Order murmurs at repose, +Entreat for war, demand their own perdition; +And vengeful Halban will not let me breathe, +But still recalls to me those ancient vows, +The slaughtered hamlets, and the lands destroyed; +Or if I will not listen his reproaches, +He with one sigh, one glance, one beckoning, +Can blow my smouldering vengeance to a flame. +Now seems my destiny to near its end; +Nought the Crusaders can withhold from war. +A messenger from Rome came yesterday. +From the world's every quarter, clouds unnumbered +A pious zeal hath gathered in the field, +And all call out to me to lead them on +With sword and cross upon the walls of Wilna. +And yet--with shame I must confess--ev'n now, +While destinies of mighty nations pend, +I think of thee, and still invent delays, +That we may pass together one more day. +O youth! how fearful was thy sacrifice! +When young, love, happiness, a very heaven, +I for a nation's cause could sacrifice +With grief, but courage;--and to-day, grown old,-- +To-day despair, my duty, and God's will +Compel me to the field, and still I dare not +Tear my grey head from these walls' pedestal, +That I may not forego thy sweet conversing. + +He ceased. Groans only issued from the tower. +Long hours flowed by in silence. Now the night +Reddened, and now the water's stilly face +Blushed with the ray of dawn. Among the leaves +Of sleeping bushes with a rustling murmur +The morning freshness flew. The birds awoke +With their soft notes, then once again they ceased, +And by long-during silence gave to know +They had too early woken. Konrad rose, +Lifted his eyes unto the tower, and looked +With anguish on the grate. The nightingale +Awoke in song, then Konrad looked around. +'Tis morning! and he let his visor down, +And in his cloak's wide folds concealed his face. +With beckoning of his hand he signs adieu, +And in the bushes how is lost + Ev'n thus, +A spirit infernal from a hermit's door +Doth vanish at the sound of matin bell. + + + + + +IV. + + +THE FESTIVAL. + + +IT was the Patron's day, a solemn feast; +Komturs and brethren to the city ride; +White banners wave upon the castle towers: +Konrad invites the knights to festival. + +A hundred white cloaks wave around the board, +On every mantle is the long black cross,--These +are the brethren, and behind them stand +The young esquires to serve them, in a ring. + +Konrad sat at the top; upon his left +The place was Witold's,8 with his leaders brave,-- +One time their foe, to-day the Order's guest, +Leagued against Litwa as their firm ally. + +The Master, rising, gives the festal word, +"Rejoice we in the Lord!" The goblets gleamed. +"Rejoice we in the Lord!" cried thousand voices. +The silver shone, the wine poured forth in streams. + +Silent sat Wallenrod, upon his elbow +Leaning, and heard with scorn the unseemly noise. +The uproar ceased; scarcely low-spoken jests +Alternate here and there the cup's light clash. + +"Let us rejoice," he says. "How now, my brethren! +Beseems it valiant knights to thus rejoice? +One time a drunken clamour, now low murmurs? +Must we then feast like bandits or like monks? + +"There were far other customs in my time, +When on the battlefield with corpses piled, +On Castile's mountains or in Finland's woods, +We drank beside the camp-fire. + + "Those were songs! +Is there no bard, no minstrel in the crowd? +Wine maketh glad indeed the heart of man, +But song it is that forms the spirit's wine." + +Then various singers all at once arose; +A fat Italian here, with birdlike tones, +Sings Konrad's valour and great piety; +And there a troubadour from the Garonne, +The stories of enamoured shepherds sings, +Of maids enchanted and of wandering knights. + +Wallenrod slept;--meanwhile the songs are o'er. +Awakened sudden by the loss of sound, +He to the Italian cast a purse of gold. +"To me alone," he said, "thou didst sing praise. +Another may not give thee recompense; +Take and depart. Let that young troubadour, +Who serveth youth and beauty, pardon us +That in the knightly throng we have no damsel, +To fasten a vain rosebud to his breast + +The roses here are faded. I would have +Another bard,--the cloister knight desires +Another song; but be it wild and harsh, +Like to the voice of horns, the clash of swords. +And be it gloomy as the cloister walls, +And fiery as a solitary drunkard. + +"Of us, who sanctify and murder men, +Let song of murderous tone proclaim the saintship, +And melt our heart, and rouse to rage,--and weary; +And let it then again affright the weary. +Such is our life, and such our song should be; +Who then will sing it?" + + "I," replied an old +And venerable man, who near the door +Sat 'mid the squires and pages, by his robe +Prussian or Litwin. Thick his beard, by age +Whitened; the last grey hairs wave on his head; +His brow and eyes are covered by a veil; +Sufferings and years are graven on his face. + +He bore in his right hand a Prussian lute, +But towards the table stretched his left hand forth, +And by this sign entreated audience. +All then were silent. + "I will sing," he cried. +"Once sang I to the Prussians and to Litwa; +Some now have perished in their land's defence; +Others will not outlive their country's loss, +But rather slay themselves upon her corse; +As servants true, in good and evil lot, +Will perish on their benefactor's pile. +Others more shamefully in forests hide; +Others, like Witold, dwell among you here. + +"But after death?--Germans! ye know full well. +Ask of the wicked traitors to their land +What, they shall do when, in that further world, +Condemned to burning of eternal fires, +They would their ancestors invoke from paradise? +What language shall entreat them for their aid? +If in their German, their barbaric speech, +The forefathers will know their children's voice. + +"O children! what a foul disgrace for Litwa, +That none of you, aye, none, defended me, +When from the shrine, the hoary Wajdelote,(4) +Away they dragged me into German chains! +Alone in foreign lands have I grown old. +A singer!--alas! to no one can I sing! +On Litwa looking, I wept out mine eyes. +To-day, if I would sigh towards my home, +I know not where that home beloved lies, +If here, or there, or in another place. + +"Here only, in my heart, have I preserved +That in my Fatherland my best possession; +And these poor remnants of my former treasure +You Germans take from me,--take memory from me! + +"As a defeated knight in tournament +Escapes with life though honour has been lost; +And, dragging out despisd days in scorn, +Returns once more unto his conqueror; +And for the last time straining forth his arm, +Breaketh his sword beneath the victor's feet,-- +So my last failing courage me inspires; +Yet once more to the lute my hand is bold; +Let the last Wajdelote of Litwa sing +Litwa's last song!" + He ended, and awaited +The Master's answer. All in silence deep +Await. With mockery and with curious eye +Konrad tracks Witold's every look and motion. + +They noted all how when the Wajdelote +Of traitors spoke, a change o'er Witold came. +Livid he grew and pale again he blushed, +Alike tormented by his rage and shame. +At last, his sabre casting from his side, +He goes, dividing all the astonished crowd. +He looked upon the old man, stayed his steps; +The clouds of anger hanging o'er his brow +Fell sudden in a rapid flood of tears; +He turned, sat down, with cloak he veiled his face, +And into secret meditation plunged + +The Germans whispered, "Shall we to our feasts +Admit old beggars? Who will hear the song, +And who will understand?" Such voices were +Among the crowd of revellers, and broken +By constant peals of ever-growing laughter. +The pages cry, whistling on nuts, "Behold! +This is the tune of the Litvanian song." + +Upon that Konrad rose. "Ye valiant knights! +To-day the Order, by a solemn custom, +Receiveth gifts from princes and from towns, +As homage from a conquered country due. +The beggar brings a song as offering +To you: forbid we not the old man's homage. +Take we the song; 'twill be the widow's mite. + +"Among us we behold the Litwin prince; +His captains are the Order's guests: to him +Sweet will it be to list the memory +Of ancient deeds, recalled in native speech. +Who understands not, let him go from hence. +I love betimes to hear the gloomy groans +Of those Litvanian songs, not understood, +Even as I love the noise of warring waves, +Or the soft murmur of the rain in spring;-- +Sweetly they charm to sleep. Sing, ancient bard!" + + SONG OF THE WAJDELOTE.9 + +When over Litwa cometh plague and death, +The bard's prophetic eye beholds, afraid. +If to the Wajdelote's word be given faith, +On desert plains and churchyards, sayeth fame, +Stands visibly the pestilential maid,10 +In white, upon her brow a wreath of flame,-- +Her brow the trees of Bialowiez11 outbraves,-- +And in her hand a blood-stained cloth she waves. + +The castle guards in terror veil their eyes, +The peasants' dogs, deep burrowing in the ground, +Scent death approaching, howl with fearful cries + +The maid's ill-boding step, o'er all is found; +O'er hamlets, castles, and rich towns she goes. +Oft as she waves the bloody cloth, no less +A palace changes to a wilderness; +Where treads her foot a recent grave up-grows. + +O woeful sight! But yet a heavier doom +Foretold to Litwa from the German side,-- +The shining helmet with the ostrich plume, +And the wide mantle with the black cross dyed. + +For where that spectre's fearful step has passed, +Nought is a hamlet's ruin or a town, +But a whole country to the grave is cast +O thou to whom is Litwa's spirit dear! +Come, on the graves of nations sit we down; +We'll meditate, and sing, and shed the tear. + +O native song! between the elder day, +Ark of the Covenant, and younger times, +Wherein their heroes' swords the people lay, +Their flowers of thought and web of native rhymes. + +Thou ark! no stroke can break thee or subdue, +While thine own people hold thee not debased. +O native song! thou art as guardian placed, +Defending memories of a nation's word. +The Archangel's wings are thine, his voice thine too, +And often wieldest thou Archangel's sword. + +The flame devoureth story's pictured words, +And thieves with steel wide scatter treasure hoards. +But scatheless is the song the poet sings. +And should vile spirits still refuse to give +Sorrow and hope, whereby the song may live, +Upward she flieth and to ruins clings, +And thence relateth ancient histories. +The nightingale from burning dwellings flits, +But on the roof, a moment yet she sits; +When falls the roof she to the forest flies, +And from her laden breast o'er dying embers, +Sings a low dirge the passer-by remembers. + +I heard the song! An ancient peasant swain, +When over bones his iron ploughshare rang, +Stood, and on flute of willow played a strain, +Prayers for the dead, or, with a rhymed lament, +Of you, great childless fathers, then he sang. +The echoes answered. I from far did hear, +And sorrow brought the sight and song more near; +In eyes and ears my spirit all was bent. + +As on the judgment-day the dead past all +The Archangel's trumpet from the tomb shall call, +So from the song the dead bones upward grew +To giant forms, from sleep of death awake, +Pillars and arches from their ruin anew, +And countless oars splashed in the desert lake; +And soon the castle-gates wide open seemed, +And princes' crowns and warriors' armour gleamed. +Now sing the bards, the dance the maidens weave; +I dreamed of marvels,--and awoke to grieve. + +Forests and native hills are vanished, +And thought doth fail, on weary pinions fled, +And sinketh in a hidden stillness drear. +The lute is silent in my stiffened hand, +And 'mid the groan of comrades of my land, +The voices of the past I may not hear. +Still something of that youthful fire once mine +Smoulders within me, and at times its light +Wakens the soul and maketh memory bright. +Then memory, like a lamp of crystalline, +The pencil has with painted colours decked, +Although by dust bedimmed, with scars beflecked; +Place but within its heart a little light, +With freshness of its colours eyes are lured, +On palace walls yet gleaming fair and bright, +Lovely, though yet with dusty cloud obscured. + +O could I but this fire of mine impart +To all my hearers' breasts, the shapes upraise +Of those dead times, and reach the very heart +Of all my brothers with my burning lays! +But haply even in this passing hour, +Now when their native song their hearts can move, +The pulses of those hearts may beat more strong, +Their souls may feel the ancient pride and love; +And live one moment in such noble power, +As lived their forefathers their whole life long. + +But why invoke the ages long gone by, +And for the present's glory find no voice? +For in your midst a great man liveth nigh-- +I sing of him. Ye, Litwini, rejoice! + +Silent the old man was, and hearkened round, +If still the Germans will permit his song. +Around the hall there reigned a silence deep; +This warms all poets to a newer zeal. +Once more he raised his song, but other theme; +O'er freer cadences his voice did range. +More rarely he, and lighter, touched the strings, +Descending from the hymn to simple story. + + THE WAJDELOTE'S TALE. + +Whence come the Litwins? From a nightly sally; +From church and castle they have won rich spoils, +And crowds of German slaves with fettered hands, +Ropes on their necks, follow the victors' steeds. +They look towards Prussia and dissolve in tears, +On Kowno look, commend their souls to God. +In midst of Kowno stretches Perun's plain; +The Litwin princes, there returned from conquest, +Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.12 +Two captive knights untroubled ride to Kowno, +One fair and young, the other bowed with years. +They in the battle left the German troops, +Fled to the Litwins. Kiejstut did receive them, +But led them to the castle under guard. +He asks their race, with what intent they come. +"I know not," said the youth, "my race or name; +In childhood was I made the Germans' captive. +I recollect alone, somewhere in Litwa, +Amid a great town stood my father's house. +It was a wooden town on lofty hills, +The house was of red brick. Around the hills +Murmured a wood of fir-trees on the plains; +Among the woods a white lake gleamed afar. +One night a shout aroused us from our sleep; +A fiery day dawned in the window, shook +The window-panes, and whirling wreaths of smoke +Burst forth within the house. We to the door. +Flames curled through all the streets, sparks fell like hail. +A horrid cry arose, 'To arms! the Germans +Are in the town! to arms!' My father rushed +Forth with his sword,--rushed forth--returned no more! +The Germans poured into the house. One seized me +And caught me to his saddle. What came further +I know not; but long, long my mother's shrieks +I heard 'mid clash of swords, 'mid fall of houses. +This cry long followed me, stayed in my ear; +Even now when I view flames and falling houses, +This cry wakes in my soul as echo wakes +In caverns after thunder's voice. Behold +My memories all of Litwa and my parents. +Sometimes in dreams I view the honoured forms +Of mother, father, brethren; but anew +Some cloud mysterious veils their features o'er, +Thicker and darker growing evermore. +The years of childhood passed away. I lived +A German among Germans, and they gave me +The name of Walter,13 Alf thereto as surname. +German the name, my soul remained Litvanian; +Grief for my parents, for the strangers hatred +Remained. The Master Winrych in his palace +Reared me, himself did hold me to the font, +Loved and caressed me as his very son. +But weary in his palace, from his knees +I fled unto the Wajdelote. That time +Among the Germans was a Litwin bard, +Captive for many years,--interpreter, +He served the army. When he heard of me +That I was orphan and Litvanian, +He told of Litwa, cheered my longing soul +With his caresses, song, and with the sound +Of the Litvanian speech. He often led me +To the grey Niemen's shores; from thence I joyed +To look upon my country's well-loved mountains. +And when unto the castle we returned, +He dried my tears to waken no suspicion: +He dried my tears, but kindled in me vengeance +Against the Germans. I remember well +How, when we came again into the castle, +I sharpened secretly a knife, with what +Delight of vengeance cut I Winrych's carpets, +Or broke his mirrors, on his shining shield +Flung sand, or spit upon it. Later on, +When grown near manhood, from Klajpedo's port +I sailed with the old man to view the shores +Of Litwa. There I plucked my country's flowers; +Their magic fragrance woke within my soul +Some ancient, dark remembrance. With the fragrance +Intoxicated, seemed me that a child +Once more I grew, and in my parents' garden, +Played with my little brothers. The old man +Assisted memory with his words, more lovely +Than herbs and flowers,--painted the happy past, +How sweet in native land 'mid friends and kin +To pass one's youth, how many Litwin children +Knew not such bliss, in the Order's fetters weeping. +I heard this on the plains, but on the beach, +Where the white billows break with roaring breasts, +And from their foamy throat cast streams of sand, +'Thou seest,' the old man then was used to say, +'The grassy carpet of this seaboard meadow. +The sand blows over it. These fragrant herbs, +Thou seest, would pierce the deadly covering, +By their brow's strength. In vain, alas! for now +Another hydra comes of gravel-dust, +Spreads its white fins, subdues the living lands, +Stretching its kingdom of wild desert round. +My son! the gifts of spring are living cast +Into the grave. Behold! they are conquered peoples, +Our brothers the Litwini! Son, this sand +Storm-driven from the sea, it is the Order.' +My heart did pain me hearing, and I longed +To murder all Crusaders, or to fly +To Litwa; but the old man checked my zeal. +'To free knights,' said he, 'it is free to choose' +Their weapon, and with equal strength to fight +in open field. Thou art a slave; the only +Weapon that slaves may use is treachery. +Remain awhile and learn the Germans' war-craft; +Try thou to gain their confidence; we later +Shall see what thing to do.' I was obedient +Unto the old man's words--went with the Germans. +But in the first fight, scarce I viewed the standards, +Scarce did I hear my, nation's songs of war, +I sprang unto our own,--led the old man with me. +As the young falcon, severed from his nest, +And nourished in a cage, although the fowlers +By cruel torments strip him of his reason, +And send him forth to war on brother-falcons; +Soon as he rises 'mid the clouds, soon as +His eyes o'erstretch the far unmeasured plains +Of his blue Fatherland, he breathes free air, +And hears the rustle of his wings.--Return +Unto thy home, O fowler! do not wait +To see the falcon in his narrow cage." + +The youth made end; with wonder Kiejstut heard, +And listened also Kiejstut's daughter fair, +Aldona, young and lovely as a goddess. +The autumn passes, therewith evenings lengthen; +And Kiejstut's daughter, as accustomed, sits +Among her sisters and her comrades' train, +Weaves at the loom or spins the distaff thread; +But as the needles fly or spindles turn, +Walter stands by and telleth wondrous tales, +About the German countries and his youth. +The damsel seizes all that Walter speaks, +Her soul, insatiable, devours all things; +She knows them all by heart, repeats in dreams. +Walter related of the castle halls, +Great towns beyond the Niemen, what rich dresses, +What splendid pastimes; how in tourney knights +Break lances, and the damsels look upon them +Down from their galleries, and adjudge the prize. +He spoke of the great God who rules beyond +The Niemen, and His Son's Immaculate Mother, +Whose angel form he showed in wondrous picture. +This picture piously adorned his breast; +The youth now gave it to the fair Litwinka, +The day he brought her to the holy faith, +When he prayed with her;--he would teach her all +He knew himself. Alas! he taught her too +That which as yet he knew not,--taught her love. +And he himself learned much. With what delight +He from her lips the half-forgotten words +Heard of Litvanian speech. New feelings rose +With each new-risen word like sparks from ashes. +Sweet were the names of family, of friendship, +And sweeter yet than all the name of love, +Which no word equals here on earth, but--country. + +"Whence," Kiejstut thought, "my daughters sudden change? +Where is her former mirth, her childish sports? +On holidays all maidens join in dance; +She sits alone, or converse holds with Walter. +On other days the needle or the loom +Engage the damsels; from her hands the needle +Falls, and the threads are tangled in the loom. +She sees not what she does; all tell me so. +And yesterday, I marked she sewed a rose, +The flowers with green, the leaves with rosy silk. +How could she know this, when her eyes and thoughts +Seek only Walter's eyes, seek his discourse? +Oft as I ask, 'Where goes she?' 'To the valley.' +'Whence comes she?' 'From the valley.' 'What is there?' +'The youth has made in it a garden for her.' +What! is that garden fairer than my orchards? +(For Kiejstut owned proud orchards full of apples +And pears, allurement of the Kowno damsels.) +'Tis not the garden lures her. I have marked +Her windows in the winter; all the panes +Which look on Niemen clear are as in May; +The frost has not obscured the crystal glass. +Thence Walter comes. She sat beside the window, +And with her burning sighs did melt the ice. +I thought, he teaches her to read and write, +Hearing all princes now instruct their children,-- +A good lad, valiant, skilled like priest in books. +Shall I expel him from my house? He is +So needful to our Litwa; he can rank +The troops as can no other; rampart mounds +He best can heap; the thunder-arms direct. +I have one behind my army.--Walter, come, +And be my son-in-law, and fight for Litwa." + +So Walter wed Aldona. Germans! you +No doubt will think this is the story's end; +For in your love romances when the knights +Are married, then the minstrel ends his song, +And only adds, "They lived long and were happy." +Well Walter loved his wife; his noble soul +Yet found no happiness in heart or home, +For in the country was there blessing none. + +The snows scarce vanished, scarce the first lark sung;-- +The lark to other lands sings love and joy, +But unto hapless Litwa he proclaims +With every year carnage and fire;--on march +Crusading armies in unnumbered crowds. +Now from the hills beyond the Niemen echo +To Kowno bears a mighty army's shouts, +The clang of armour and the neigh of steeds. +Like mist the camp descends, o'erflows the plain, +And here and there the leaders' standards gleam +Like lightning ere the storm. The Germans stood +Upon the shore, threw bridges o'er the Niemen, +And day by day the walls and bastions fall +With shock of battering-ram, and night by night +The storming mines work underground like moles; +Beneath the heavens the bomb in fiery flight +Rises, and swoops upon the city roofs, +As falls the falcon on the lesser fowl. +Kowno is fallen in ruins. Then the Litwin +Retires to Kiejdan; Kiejdan falls in ruin. +Then Litwa makes defence in woods and hills; +The Germans march on farther, robbing, burning; +Kiejstut and Walter first in battle, last +Retreating. Kiejstut was untroubled still, +From childhood used to combat with his foe, +To attack, to conquer, or to fly. He knew +His forefathers warred ever with the Germans; +He, following in their footsteps, ever fought, +And cared not for the future. Other were +The thoughts of Walter. Nurtured 'mid the Germans, +He knew the Order's power; the Master's summons, +He knew, could draw forth armies, treasures, swords, +From all of Europe. Prussia made defence; +In former times the Teutons broke the Prussians; +Sooner or later Litwa meets such fate. +He had seen the Prussians' misery; he trembled +To think of Litwa's future. "Son," cries Kiejstut, +"Thou art an evil prophet; thou hast reft +The veil before my eyes, to show the abyss. +While hearing thee, it seemed my hands grew weak, +With victory's hope all courage left my breast +How shall we with the German power contend?" +"Father," said Walter, "one sole way I know, +A dreadful way, alas! effectual! +Some day I may reveal it." Thus did they +Converse, the battle over, ere the trumpet +Did summon to fresh battles and defeats. +Kiejstut grew ever sadder, and how changed +Seemed Walter; never over-merry he. +Even in happy moments some light shade +Of thought o'erhung his brow, but with Aldona +Serene was once his brow and visage tranquil, +Aye welcoming her with smiles, with tender glance +Bidding farewell to her. Now, as it seemed, +He was tormented by some hidden pain. +By morn, before the house, wringing his hands, +He looked upon the smoke of towns and hamlets, +Burning far off; there gazed he with wild eyes. +By night he started out of sleep, and looked +Forth from the window on the blood-red blaze. +"Husband, what ails thee?" asks with tears Aldona. +"What ails me? Shall I peaceful sleep till Germans +Shall give me sleeping, bound, to hangman's hands?" +"O husband! Heaven forbid! The sentries guard +Full well the trenches." "True the sentries guard them. +I watch and grasp the sabre in my hand. +But when the sentries die the sword is broken. +List, if I live to old age, wretched age----" +"But Heaven will give us comfort in our children." +"The Germans will fall on us, slay the wife, +The children tear away, and lead them far, +Teach them to loose the arrow on their father. +Myself my father, brothers, might have slain, +Unless the Wajdelote----" "Dear Walter! go we +Farther in Litwa; hide we from the Germans +In mountains and in forests." "Aye, we go, +And other mothers, children leave behind. +Thus fled the Prussians; Germans overtook them +In Litwa. If they trace us in the mountains----" +"Let us again go farther." "Farther? farther? +Unhappy one! shall we go far from Litwa, +Into the Tartar's or the Rusin's hands?" +Hushed was Aldona, troubled at this answer, +For hitherto it had to her appeared +Her Fatherland were long as is the world, +Wide without end; and now for the first time +She heard there was no refuge in all Litwa. +Wringing her hands she asked, "What may be done?" + +"One way, Aldona, one remains to Litwa +To break the Order's power: that way I know; +But ask it not for God's sake. Hundred times +Be cursed that hour in which, constrained by foes, +I seize these means." No farther would he say, +Heard not Aldona's prayers, but only heard +And saw before him Litwa's misery. +At last the flame of vengeance, nursed in silence, +By sight of suffering and defeat, increased, +And did surround his heart, consumed all feelings-- +One feeling even, hitherto life-sweetening,-- +Feeling of love. So when the hunters light +A hidden fire 'neath oaks of Bialowiez, +It burns away the inner pith; the monarch +Of the forest loses all his waving leaves, +His branches fly off, even that green crown +That once adorned his brow, the mistletoe, +Dries up and withers. +Long the Litwini +Wandered through castles, mountains, and through woods, +The Germans harrying or by them attacked, +Till fought the dreadful fight on Rudaw's plains, +Where many thousand Litwin youth lay slaughtered, +Beside as many of the Teuton host +Soon reinforcements from beyond the sea +Came to the Germans. Kiejstut then and Walter +Ascended with a handful to the mountains. +With broken sabres and with dinted shields, +Covered with dust and clotted gore, they went +Gloomy towards home. There Walter neither looked +Upon his wife, nor spoke to her one word; +But in the German tongue held he discourse +With Kiejstut and the Wajdelote. Aldona +Nought understood, but yet her heart forebode +Some dire event When ended was their council, +All three turned sorrowing glances on Aldona. +Walter looked longest, with despair's mute gaze; +Thick-falling teardrops trickled from his eyes; +He fell before Aldona's feet and pressed +Her hands unto his heart, and pardon begged +For all the things that she had suffered of him. +"Woe!" cried he, "unto women loving madmen, +Whose hearts domestic happiness contents not. +Great hearts, Aldona, are like hives too large; +Honey can fill them not, and they become +The lizard's nest. Forgive me, dear Aldona! +To-day I would remain at home, to-day +Forget all things; be we for each to-day +What once we used to be. To-morrow----" But +He could not finish. What joy then Aldona's! +She thought, unhappy, Walter would be changed, +That he would live in peace and joyousness. +Less thoughtful did she see him, in his eyes +More life; she saw new colour in his cheeks; +And all that evening at Aldona's feet +Spent Walter. Litwa, Teutons, and the war +He cast awhile into forgetfulness; +Talked of those happy times when first he came +To Litwa, his first converse with Aldona, +The first walk to the valley, and of all +Those childish things, but memorable to the heart, +Of that first love. Wherefore such sweet discourse +Must he break off with that sad word--to-morrow, +And plunge in thought, look long upon his wife? +Tears circle in his eyes. Would he then speak, +But dares not? Did he but invoke the feelings, +The memories of ancient happiness, +Only to bid farewell to them? Shall all +This evening's converse, all its sweet caresses, +Be but the last, last flickerings of love's torch? +'Tis vain to ask. Aldona looks and waits, +Uncertain. Passing from the room, she gazed +Still through the crannies. Walter poured out wine, +And emptied many cups, and near him kept +The hoary Wajdelote through all the night. + +Scarce risen had the sun when hoofs were clattering; +Up with the morning mists two riders haste; +The guards all missed them; one eye could not miss. +A lover's eyes are vigilant. Aldona +Had guessed their flight; she rushed into the valley. +Sad was that meeting. "O my love, return! +Return thou home--return! Thou must be happy, +Blest in embraces of thy family. +Thou art young and fair; comfort will soon be thine. +Forget me. Many princes formerly +Contended for thy hand. And thou art free, +Being as widow left of a great man, +Who for his country's weal renounced ev'n thee! +Farewell! forget; but weep for me at times; +For Walter loses all; he doth remain +Lone as the lone wind in the wilderness, +And he must wander over all the world, +To plunder, murder, and at last to perish +By shameful death. But after vanished years +The name of Alf again shall sound in Litwa, +And from the Wajdelote's lips thou shalt again +Hear of his deeds. Then, loved one, think thou then, +This dreadful knight, with cloud of mystery veiled, +Is known to thee alone,--was once thy husband; +And be thy pride thy desolation's comfort." +Silent Aldona did assent, although +She heard no word. "Thou goest! thou goest!" she cried, +And her own anguish wrought with her own words. +"Thou goest!" this one word sounded in her ear. +She framed no thought, nothing recalled; her thoughts, +Her memories, her future, tangled all; +But guessed her heart she never could return, +Nor e'er forget. Her eyes all wandering roved, +And many times met Walter's wildered look, +Wherein she might not find the ancient joy; +She seemed to seek for something new around, +And looked once more. 'Twas forest wilderness. +Beyond the Niemen 'mid the forests gleamed +A turret height; a convent 'twas of nuns, +Sad dwelling of the Christians. On this tower +Rested Aldona's eyes and thoughts; the dove +Seized by the wind amidst a raging sea, +Thus falls upon an unknown vessel's mast. +And Walter understood Aldona. Silent +He followed her, and told her his design, +Commanding secrecy before the world. +And at the doors--ah! fearful was that parting! +Alf rode off with the Wajdelote. Till now +Nought has been heard of them. But woe to him +If he fulfil not hitherto his vows, +If, having all his bliss renounced and poisoned +Aldona's happiness, and sacrificed +So much, he still have sacrificed in vain! +The future shows the rest. I have ended, Germans. + +This is the end?--great murmur in the hall. +"Who is this Walter, and what are his deeds? +Where? vengeance upon whom?" the hearers cried. +The Master only, 'mid the murmuring crowd, +In silence sat with head bent down. He seemed +As deeply moved; each instant snatches cups +Of wine, and to the very bottom drains. +Upon him came a change of somewhat new, +Many emotions break in sudden lightnings, +And circle o'er his burning countenance; +His pale lips quiver, and his wandering eyes +Fly round like swallows in the midst of storm. +At last he cast his mantle off, and sprang +Into the midst. "Where is the story's end? +Sing me at once the end or give the lute. +Why stand'st thou trembling? Give the lute to me. +Fill up the goblets; I will sing the end +If thou dost fear to sing it. + +"I know ye. Every song the Wajdelote sings +Portendeth woe, as howls of dogs at night. +Murders and burnings ye delight to sing, +Ye leave to us--glory and sorrowing. +Yet in the cradle doth your traitorous song +Circle the infant's breast in reptile form, +And cruellest poison sheds into the soul, +Foolish desire of praise and patriot love. +"She follows hard the footsteps of a youth +Like shade of slaughtered foe, sometimes reveals +Herself in midst of banquets, mixing blood +In cups of joy. I have heard the song--too well, +Alas! Tis done, 'tis done! I know thee, traitor! +Thou winnest! War! what triumph for a poet! +Give to me wine; now my designs are working. + +"I know the song's end. No! I'll sing another. +When on the mountains of Castile I fought, +There the Moors taught me ballads. Old man! play +That melody, that childish melody, +Which in the valley,--'twas a blessed time; +Unto that music did I ever sing. +Return at once, old man, for by all gods, +German or Prussian----" + + The old man must return. +He struck the lute, and with uncertain voice +Followed the savage tones of Konrad, as +A slave may walk behind his angry lord. + +Meanwhile the lights went out upon the table. +The knights had slumbered at the lengthy banquet, +But Konrad sings, and they awake again. +They stand, and, in a narrow circle pressed, +Attentive marked the ballad's every word. + + BALLAD. + + ALPUJARA. + +Ruined lie the Moorish cities, + Still the Moors upraise the sword; +In the country still resisting, + Reigns the pestilence as lord. + +And the towers of Alpujara + Brave Almanzor still defends: +Floats below the Spaniard's banner, + Siege to-morrow he intends. + +Roar the guns at sunrise loudly, + Ramparts break, and crumble walls; +From the towers the cross gleams proudly,-- + Now the Spaniard owns these halls. + +Sad Almanzor views his warriors + Slain in battle desperate; +Hews his way through swords and lances, + Flieth Spain's pursuing hate. + +Now the Spaniards in the fortress, + 'Mid the stones and corpses there, +Hold the feast and drain the wine-cup, + And the spoils and captives share. + +Soon the guard.without announces + That a stranger knight doth wait, +Craving for a swift admittance, + Bringing tidings of great weight + +'Twas the vanquished Moor Almanzor. + Swift his mantle off was thrown; +To the Spaniards he surrenders, + And he craves for life alone. + +"I am come, ye Christian warriors, + To submit me to your power; +I will serve the God of Christians, + Own your prophet from this hour, + +"Let the blast of fame, world-filling, + Say, the Arab chief o'erthrown +Would be brother to his victors, + Vassal of a stranger's crown." + +Well the Spaniard prizes valour. + So the great Almanzor knowing, +They embraced him, circled round him, + As their true companion showing. + +Each one then Almanzor greeted, + And their captain close embraced: +Hung upon his neck, and kissed him; + Such true love their friendship graced. + +All at once his strength grew feebler, + And he fell upon the ground; +But he drew the Spaniard with him, + To his feet the turban bound. + +All with wonder looked upon him, + And his livid visage scan; +Horrid smiles deformed his features, + And with blood his eyes o'erran. + +"Christian dogs," he cries, "look on me, + If you understand this thing; +I deceived you, from Granada + Come I, and the plague I bring. + +"For my kiss breathed venom in ye, + And the plague shall lay you low; +Come and look upon my tortures-- + Ye such death must undergo." + +Wide he cast his eyes around him, + As he would eternally +Chain all Spaniards to his bosom; + And a horrid laugh laughed he. + +Laughed, and died; his eyes yet open, + Open yet his lips remained: +In that hellish smile for ever + Those cold features still were strained. + +Fled the Spaniards from the city. + But the plague their steps pursuing, +Ere they left doomed Alpujara, + Was that gallant host's undoing. + +"Thus years ago the Moors avenged themselves; +Would you the vengeance of the Litwin know? +What if some day it issue forth in words, +And come to mingle poison in the wine? +But no! ah, no! to-day are other customs, +Prince Witold; for to-day the Litwin lords +Come to deliver us their native land, +And seek for vengeance on their harassed people. + +"But yet, indeed, not all--oh! no, by Perun! +There are in Litwa yet--I'll sing yet to you! +Away from me that lute--a string is broken. +No song will be--but I do trust indeed +One time there will be. This day, o'er filled cups,-- +I have drunk too much--rejoice yourselves and play! +And thou Al--manzor, leave my sight, old man! +Away with Halban--leave me here alone." + +He said, and turning by uncertain way, +He found his place, and sank into his chair. +Still threatening somewhat, stamping with his foot, +O'erturned the table with the wine and cups. +At last grown weaker, he inclined his head +Upon the chair-arm; soon his glance was quenched; +His quivering lips were covered o'er with foam. +He slept. + +The knights awhile in fixed amazement stood: +They knew full well Konrad's unhappy custom; +How, when inflamed unto excess with wine, +Into wild transports and forgetfulness +He falls; but at a banquet, public shame! +Before the strangers, in such unheard rage! +Who thus inflamed him? Where that Wajdelote? +He vanished privately, none know of him. + +Stories there were that Halban thus disguised +To Konrad that Litvanian song had sung, +To kindle by this means the zeal of Christians +To battle against heathenesse; but whence +A change so sudden in the Master? Wherefore +Did Witold show such angry wrath? What means +The Master's strange, wild ballad? With conjectures, +Each vainly tries to track the hidden secret. + + + + + +V. + + +WAR.14 + + +War now. For Konrad may no longer curb +The people's zeal, the council's fierce insistance: +The whole land calls for vengeance long delayed, +For Litwa's inroad, and for Witold's treason. + +Witold, once suitor for the Order's grace, +To aid recovery of his capital, +After the banquet, on this new report +That the Crusading hosts will take the field, +Changed measures--traitor to his recent friendship, +And led his knights in secrecy away. + +And in the Teuton castles on the road +He entered, by the Master's forged commands; +And then disarming all the garrison, +Annihilated all with fire and sword. +The Order, roused with burning rage and shame, +Against the heathens stirred up fierce Crusade; +The Pope sends forth a bull,--seas, land, o'erflow +At once with swarms of warriors numberless, +Princes with mighty following of vassals; +The Red Cross decks their armour. Each his life +Devotes to christen pagans,--or to die. + +They went towards Litwa. What their actions there? +If thou wouldst know, gaze from the ramparts' heights, +Look towards Litwa, as the day declines. +Thou see'st a fiery blaze; the vault of heaven +O'er-deluged with a stream of bloody flame; +Behold the annals of invading war. +Few words relate their carnage, plunder, fire, +And blaze, which may rejoice the foolish crowd, +But in it wise men do with fear confess, +A voice that crieth for revenge to Heaven. + +The winds blew on that dreadful fire apace, +The knights marched further to the heart of Litwa. +Report says Kowno, Wilna, are besieged. +Then ceased report, and couriers came no more. +No longer in the region flames were seen, +But further off the heaven's ruddy blaze. +In vain the Prussians look with eager hope, +For spoils and prisoners of the conquered land; +In vain despatch swift couriers for the news, +The couriers hasten--and return no more. +As each this cruel doubt interpreteth, +He willingly would know despair itself. + +The autumn passed away. The winter's snows +Revelled upon the mountains, block the ways. +Once more upon the distant heaven shine-- +Midnight auroras? or the fires of war? +And ever nearer comes the light of flames, +And nearer yet the heaven's ruddy blaze. + +From Marienbourg the folk look on the road; +They see afar--grovelling through deepest snows, +Some travellers!--Konrad! And our generals! +How welcome them? Victors? or fugitive? +Where are the others? Konrad raised his hand, +And pointed further off a scattered crowd, +Alas! their very aspect told the secret! +They rush in disarray, plunge in the snowdrifts; +Roll each on each, down treading like vile insects, +Within a narrow vessel perishing; +They push o'er corpses, ever newer crowds, +Hurl those new risen down again to earth. +Some drag still onward chilled and stiffened limbs, +Some on the march have frozen to the road; +But with raised hands the corpses standing point +Straight to the town, like pillars on the way. + +The townsfolk, terror-stricken, curious ran, +Fearing to guess the truth they dared not ask; +For all the story of that luckless war +They in the warriors' eyes and faces read +For o'er their eyes hung death in frosty shape, +And Famine's harpy hollowed out their cheeks. +Now are the trumpets of the Litwin heard, +Now rolls the storm, snow whirlwinds o'er the plain; +Far off a multitude of gaunt dogs howls, +And overhead the ravens hover round. + +All perished! Konrad has destroyed them all! +He, that once reaped such glory with the sword, +He, for his prudence formerly renowned, +Timid and careless in this latter war, +Marked not the cunning snares that Witold laid; +Deceived and blinded by the wish of vengeance, +Driving his army on the Litwin steppes, +Wilna thus long in sluggard guise besieged. +When plunder and provisions were consumed, +When hunger came upon the German camp, +And scattered all around, the enemy +Destroyed the auxiliars, cut off all supplies, +Each day a myriad Germans died from need. +Now time approached to end by storm the war, +Or else bethink them of a swift return. +Then Wallenrod, in peace and confidence, +Rode to the chase, or, closed within his tent, +Forged secret treaties, and denied his captains +Admission to the councils of the war. + +And thus in warlike fervour grew he cold, +That by his people's tears untouched, unmoved, +He deigned not raise the sword in their defence; +All day with folded arms upon his breast, +In thought remaining, or discourse with Halban. +Meanwhile the winter piled its heaps of snow, +And Witold, with his fresh recruited bands, +Besieged the army, fell upon the camp. +Oh! shame in annals of the valiant Order! +The Master first did fly the battle-field! +In place of laurels, and abundant spoil, +He brought the news of Litwa's victories! +Did ye but mark, when from that thunder stroke +He led this host of spectres to their homes, +What gloomy sadness darkened o'er his brow? +The worm of pain unwound him from his cheek, +And Konrad suffered; but look on his eyes! +That large half-open eye, bright shining throws +Its darts aslant, like comet threatening war; +Each moment changing, like the gleams of night, +Whereby the wily demon travellers lures. +Uniting joy and rabid rage in one, +It shone as with a right Satanic glance. + +Trembled the folk and murmured. Konrad care not. +He called to council the unwilling knights, +Looked on them, spoke, and beckoned. O disgrace! +They hear attentive, and believe his words. +They view Heaven's judgments in the faults of man; +For whom of humankind persuades not--anguish. + +Tarry, proud ruler! Judgment waits even thee! +In Malborg is a dungeon underground. +There, when the night in darkness wraps the town, +The secret tribunal descends to council.15 +One single lamp upon the high-arched roof, +And day and night it burns mysteriously. +Twelve chairs, in circle placed around a throne,-- +Upon the throne the secret book of laws. +Twelve judges each in sable armour clad; +The visages of all inlocked by masks, +In dungeons hide them from the common crowd; +But each thus masked enshrouds him from his fellows. + +All sworn, of their own will, with one accord, +Crimes of their potent rulers to chastise, +Too heinous, or unknown before the world. +And soon as falls on him the last decree, +Not even a brother's trespass to condone; +Each must by violent or by treasonous ways, +On him condemned fulfil the spoken doom; +Dagger in hand, and rapier at their side. + +One of the maskers now approached the throne, +And standing with drawn sword before the book, + Spoke thus: "Tremendous judges! +Proof now our long suspicion has confirmed. +That man who calls him Konrad Wallenrod, + He is not Wallenrod. +Who is he? 'Tis unknown. Twelve years ago, +From unknown parts he to the Rhine-land came. +When passed Count Wallenrod to Palestine, +He in the count's train wore an esquire's dress. +But soon Count Wallenrod, unknown, did perish. +And then his squire, suspected of his death, + Departed secretly from Palestine; + Then did he land upon the Spanish shore; +In battles with the Moors gave proof of valour, +And in the tourneys prizes rich obtained, +And everywhere gained fame as Wallenrod. + He took on him at length the Order's vows, + Was chosen Master, to the Order's loss. +How ruled he, all ye know. This latter winter +When we with frost, famine, and Litwa fought, +Konrad in woods and oak-groves rode alone; +And there in secret held discourse with Witold. +Long time my spies have traced his every deed; +Hidden at evening by the corner tower, +They understood not the discourse which Konrad +Did hold with the recluse;--but, dreadful judges, +He spoke, they said, in the Litvanian tongue. +And weighing duly what the messengers +Of our tribunal of this man reported, +And that intelligence my spy late brought, +And fame reporteth, scarcely secretly; +Tremendous judges! I accuse the Master +Of falsehood, murder, heresy, and treason." + +Here the accuser knelt before the book, +And laid his hand upon the crucifix; +And with an oath confirmed his story's truth, +By God, and by the Saviour's agony. +He ceased. The judges arbitrate the cause, +But not by open voice or still discourse; +Scarce by a glance of eye, or sign of hand, +Their deep and dreadful thought communicate. +Each in his turn approached him to the throne, +And with the dagger's point o'erturned the leaves, +Of the Order's book, and silent read the law, +Inquiring sentence of his conscience only. +And having judged, his hand lays on his heart, +And all in concord raised the cry of "Woe!" +With threefold echo then the walls repeated, +"Woe!"--In that word alone, that single word, +A sentence lies! The arraigners understood. +Twelve swords were raised aloft; one aim was theirs-- +Destined to Konrad's heart. Then all departed +In gloomy silence, and the walls behind, +Repeated with a fearful echo: "Woe!" + + + + + +VI + + +THE PARTING. + + +A WINTRY dawn, with stormy wind and snow; +Through storm and snow-clouds hastens Wallenrod. +Scarce stands he on the borders of the lake, +He calls aloud, striking the tower with sword. +"Aldona," cries he, "let us live, Aldona! +Thy lover comes; his vows are all fulfilled, +The foes have perished, all is now fulfilled." + + THE RECLUSE. + +"Alf! 'tis his voice indeed! My Alf, my love! +What! peace already! thou returnest safe? +Thou goest not forth again?" + + KONRAD. + + "For love of God, +Ask thou no tidings!--Listen, my beloved! +Listen, and weigh with carefulness each word, +The foes have perished. Dost thou see these fires? +Thou see'st? 'Tis Litwa's havoc with the Germans. +A hundred years heal not the Order's wounds, +I smote the hundred-headed monster's heart. +Their treasures wasted, well-springs of their power, +Their towns in flames, a sea of blood has flowed,-- +I caused all this! I have fulfilled my vows! +More fearful vengeance hell might not conceive. +I will no more of it--I am a man! +I spent my youth in foul hypocrisy, +In bloody, murders. Now, bent down with age, +Wearied of treasons, I am unfit for war. +Enough of vengeance. Germans, too, are men! +God has enlightened me. I come from Litwa, +And I have seen those places, seen thy castle, +The Kowno castle,--now it lies in ruin. +I turned away, urged thence my rapid course; +And hurried to that valley, our own valley. +All was as formerly! Those woods, those flowers! +All as it was upon that very eve, +When to the valley breathed we long farewell. +Alas! it seems to me but yesterday! +That stone--rememberest thou that high-raised stone +Once of our rambles limit made and end? +It standeth now, though overgrown with moss; +Scarce might I view it, hidden thus in green. +I tore the herb off, watered it with tears. +That grassy seat, where, through the summer noon, +Thou didst among the maples love to rest; +That spring, whose waters then I sought for thee-- +I found them all, looked on them, passed around. +And even thy little arbour still remains, +As with dry willow-twigs I fenced it in; +And those dry twigs, a wonder, my Aldona, +That once I planted in the barren sand, +To-day thou wouldst not know them--lovely trees, +And the light leaves of spring upon them wave, +And on them grows the youthful catkin's down. +Oh! seeing these, a blessing all unknown, +Foreshadowing of joy, revived my heart; +The trees embracing, on my knees I fell +O God! I cried, grant all may be fulfilled! +Oh! may we, to our Fatherland restored, +When dwelling in our Litwa's native fields, +Again revive to life; may leaves of hope +Again o'erdeck with green our destiny. +Let us return! consent! I rule the Order; +I will bid open. But what need commands? +For were this door a thousand times more hard +Than steel, I'd beat it down--I'd pluck it up; +And thee, O my beloved, to our valley, +There will I lead thee, raise thee with my hand. +Or go we further still? Litwa has deserts; +There lie deep shades in woods of Bialowiez, +Where never rings the clang of foreign swords, +Nor sounds the haughty victor's signal-word-- +No, nor the groanings of our vanquished brothers. +There, in the midst of silent, pastoral joy, +And in thine arms, and on thy bosom, let me +Forget that there are nations in the world; +Or any worlds; we for ourselves will live-- +Return, oh! speak, consent!" + Aldona spoke not; +And Konrad, silent, waited yet reply: +Meanwhile the blood-red dawn shone forth in heaven. + +"O God! Aldona, morning is before us, +And men will wake: the guard arrest us here. +Aldona!"--called he, trembling with despair. +No voice was his; beseeching with his eyes, +He lifted to the tower his claspd hands, +Fell on his knees, and pity to entreat, +Embraced and kissed the walls of that cold tower. + + THE RECLUSE. + +"No, no! the time is past," her sad voice spoke; +"But be thou tranquil, Heaven will give me strength, +The Lord will shield me from that heaviest stroke. +When here I came, I on the threshold swore +Never to leave this tower, but for the grave. +I wrestled with myself, and thou, my love, +Thou, even thou, against the Lord wouldst aid me. +Wouldst give back to the world a wretched phantom? +Oh think! oh think! if madly I should give +Myself to be persuaded, leave this cave +And fall with rapture into thine embrace; +But thou wouldst know not, neither welcome me, +Avert thine eyes, and ask, with horror struck, +'What, is this fearful spectre fair Aldona?' +And thou wouldst seek in this extinguished eye, +And in this visage her--the thought is death! +No, never let the poor recluse's woe +Offend the beauty of the bright Aldona! + +"Myself, I will confess, forgive me, love! +Oft as the moon with brighter lustre gleams, +Hearing thy voice, I hide behind these walls, +Unwishing, loved one, to behold thee near! +For thou, maybe, art not the same to-day +Which once thou wert, in those sweet years gone by, +When with our hosts didst to our castle ride. +But thou retainest, hidden in my breast, +Those self-same eyes, that posture, form, and dress. +So the fair moth, within the amber drowned, +Retains its primal form eternally. +O Alf! 'twere better far that we remain +That which we were in former days, and as +We shall unite again,--but not on earth. + +"Leave we the beauteous valleys to the happy, +I love the stony stillness of my cell; +For me 'tis bliss enough to see thee living, +And in the evening thy loved voice to hear. +And in this silence, Alf, beloved, we may +Heal every suffering, sweeten every pang, +All treasons, murders, burnings, cast aside, +Strive thou to come but earlier and more frequent. + +"If thou shouldst--listen, on these very plains, +Like to that arbour plant another bower, +And hither bring those willows that thou lovest, +And flowers, and even that stone from out the valley; +There let the children from the hamlet near, +Play joyously beneath their native trees, +And into garlands weave their native plants; +Let them repeat the Lithuanian songs, +For native song doth meditation aid, +And brings me dreams of Litwa and of thee. +And later, later, when my life is o'er, +Here let them sing, and on the grave of Alf." + +Alf heard no longer; he, on that wild shore, +Wandered on aimless, without thought or will; +A mountain there of ice, a forest there +Allured him; savage sights and hasty course +Afforded him relief in weariness. +His breast was heavy in the winter rain, +He cast aside his mantle, coat-of-mail, +He tore his garments, from his breast threw off +All--all but sorrow! + +Now morning lighted on the city ramparts. +He saw an unknown shadow, stopped, and gazed-- +The shadow further moved; with silent steps +It glided o'er the snow, and disappeared +Within the trenches, but a voice was heard +Three times that voice repeated: "Woe, woe, woe!" + +Alf at this voice awoke, and stood in thought +He thought awhile,--and understood the whole. +He drew his sword, and looked to every side; +He turned him round, searched with unquiet eye-- +'Twas waste around; only the winter snow +Flew in a whirlwind, and the north wind roared +He looked upon the shore, he stood in grief. +At length with rapid stride, though tottering, +He came again beneath Aldona's tower. + +Far off he saw her, at the window still. +"Good day!" he cried; "so many, many years, +We saw each other only in the night. +And now good day! what happy augury! +The first good day after so many years! +And canst thou guess, wherefore I come so soon?" + + ALDONA. + +"I will not guess. Farewell, belovd friend! +The light has risen too brightly--if they knew thee-- +Cease to importune me. Farewell till evening. +I cannot come forth--will not" + + ALF. + + "Tis too late. +Know'st thou for what I pray thee? Throw some twig; +No, no, thou hast no flowers. From thy garments +A thread, or from thy tresses cast a lock; +Or throw a pebble from thy prison walls. +To-day I wish--all may not see to-morrow. +I would to-day have some remembrance of thee, +That lay this very morn upon thy breast, +And which a tear shall glow on, lately shed, +For I would lay it on my heart in death, +And bid the gift farewell with my last breath. +I must die shortly, swiftly, suddenly! +Well die together! Dost thou see that shot-hole? +There will I dwell. Each morning for a sign, +I'll hang a black cloth on the balcony, +And at the grate each evening place a lamp. +There gaze thou steadfast. Throw I down the cloth, +Or if the lamp expires before its time, +Close thou thy window. I maybe return not. +Farewell, beloved!" + He vanished. Still Aldona +Gazed, bending downward from the window grate. +The morn had passed away, the sun had set, +But her white garments, dallying in the wind, +And arms stretched down to earth were long beheld. + +"The sun has set at last," spoke Alf to Halban, +And pointed from his shot-hole to the sun. +Within the turret, from the early morn +He sat, and looked upon Aldona's window, +"Give me my cloak and sword. Farewell, true friend; +I go unto the tower. Farewell for long, +Maybe for ever!--Listen to me, Halban. +If, when to-morrow day begins to gleam, +I come not back, leave thou this dwelling-place. +I will, I would give something to thy charge. +How lone am I! either in earth or heaven, +To no one, nowhere, have I aught to say +In my death-hour, except to her and thee! +Farewell unto thee, Halban; she will know it. +Throw down the kerchief if to-morrow morn-- +But what is that? Dost hear? There comes a knocking." +"Who goeth there?" three times the sentry cried. +"Woe!" answered many voices wild and strange. +Resistance none the sentry might oppose; +The door could not withstand the heavy shocks. +The invaders passed the lower galleries through, +And mounted up the winding iron stair +That led to Wallenrod's last dwelling-place. +Alf with the iron bolt secured the door, +His sabre drew, a cup raised from the board, +Drew near the window. "It is done!" he cried. +He filled, and drank. "Old man, 'tis in thy hands." + +Halban grew pale. With motion of his hand +He thought to spill the draught--he stopt in thought. +The sounds aye nearer through the doors were heard, +His hand relaxed. "'Tis they, the foes are come!" +"Old man, thou knowest what this uproar means? +What are thy thoughts? Thou hast the goblet full-- +I have drunk my portion. In thy hands, old man." + +Halban gazed on in silence of despair. +"No, no, I will survive even thee, my son! +I would as yet remain to close thine eyes, +And live, so that the glory of thy deed, +I to the world may tell, to ages show. +I'll traverse Litwa's castles, hamlets, towns; +And where I pass not, there my song shall fly. +The bard shall sing them unto knights in war, +And women sing them for their babes at home. +Aye! they shall sing them, and in future days +Some venger shall arise from out our bones."(5) + +Alf fell upon the window-sill with tears, +And long, long time upon the tower he gazed, +As though he yet his gaze would satiate +With those dear sights he shortly must forego. +He hung on Halban's neck; they mixed their sighs, +In that embrace of long and last farewell. +But at the bolts they heard a steely rattle, +And armd men came in, and called Alf s name. + +"Traitor, thy head must fall beneath the sword; +Repent thee of thy sins, prepare for death! +Behold this old man, chaplain of the Order, +Cleanse thou thy soul and make a fitting end!" +Alf stood with drawn sword ready for their coming; +But paler aye he grew, he bowed, and tottered, +Leaned on the sill; casting a haughty glance, +His mantle tore off, flung the Master's badge +On earth, and trampled scornful under foot. + +"Behold the sins committed in my life. +Ready am I to die; what will ye more? +The annals of my ruling will ye hear? +Look on these many thousands hurled to death, +On towns in ruins, and domains in flames. +Hear ye the storm-winds? clouds of snow drive on; +Thither your army's remnants freeze in ice. +Hear ye? The hungry packs of dogs do howl, +They tear each other for the banquet's remnant. + +"I caused all this, and I am great and proud, +So many hydras' heads one blow has felled; +As Samson, by once shaking of the column, +To o'er throw the temple, dying in its ruin." + +He spoke, looked on the window, and he fell. +But ere he fell, he cast the lamp to earth. +It three times glimmered with a circling blaze, +That rested latterly on Konrad's brow; +And in its scattered flow the fire's rust gleamed, +But ever deeper into darkness sank. +At length, as though it gave the sign of death, +One last great ring of light shot forth its blaze; +And in this blaze were seen the eyes of Alf, +All white in death, and now the light was dark. + +And at this moment through the tower walls pierced +A sudden cry,16 strong, lengthened, broken off-- +From whose breast came it? Surely ye can guess +But he who heard it readily might tell, +That from the breast whence such a cry escaped, +Now never more should any voice come forth. +For this voice a whole life spoke aloud. + +Thus lute strings, shuddering from a heavy stroke, +Vibrate and burst; in their confusd sounds +They seem to voice the first notes of a song, +But of such song let none expect the end. + +Such be my singing of Aldona's fate. +Let music's angel sing it through in heaven, +And thou, O tender reader, in thy soul. + + + + + +NOTES. + + +(1) _"__In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing.__"_ + +Marienbourg, in Polish Malborg, a fortified town, formerly the capital of +the Teutonic Order, under Kazimir Jagellon (1444-1492) united to the +Polish Republic; later on, given as a pledge to the Margraves of +Brandenburgh. It came at last into the possession of the Kings of Prussia. +In the vaults of the castle were the graves of the Grand-Masters, some of +which are still preserved. + +(2) _"__But foreign houses of his fame were full.__"_ + +Houses--so were called the convents, or rather castles, scattered through +various parts of Europe. + +(3) _"__The strife of keen-edged swords__"__ = combattre outrance._ + +(4) _The Archkomtur._ + +The Grosskomthur was the chief officer after the Grand-Master. + +(5) _"__Some unknown pious woman from afar.__"_ + +The chronicles of that time speak of a country girl, who, having come to +Marienbourg, asked to be walled up in a solitary cell, and there ended her +life. Her grave was famous for miracles. + +(6) _"__Our master he.__"_ + +In time of election, if opinions were divided or uncertain, similar +occurrences were often taken as omens, and influenced the decisions of the +chapter. Thus Winrych Kniprode gained all the voices, because some of the +brothers heard, as though from the tombs of the Grand-Masters, a +three-fold calling: "Vinrice, ordo laborat." + +(7) _"__A fire eternal burns in Swentorog's halls.__"_ + +The castle of Wilna, where formerly was maintained the Znicz; that is, an +ever-burning fire. + +(8) _"__The place was Witold's.__"_ + +[Witold, the son of Kiejstut, after rising over the heads of the other +Lithuanian princes to the sovereignty of the whole country, was ultimately +dispossessed by his cousin Jagellon, founder of the Jagellon dynasty, +which reigned over Poland and Lithuania from 1386 to 1572.] + +(9) _Song of the Wajdelote._ + +The Wajdelotes, Sigonoci, Lingustoni were priests whose office was to +relate or sing to the people the acts of their forefathers at all +festivals. That the old Lithuanians and Prussians loved and cultivated +poetry is proved by the enormous number of ancient songs, still remaining +among the common people, and by the testimony of chroniclers. We read that +during a grand festival on the occasion of the election of the +Grand-Master Winrych von Kniprode, a German Minnesinger, being honoured +with applause and a gold cup, a Prussian named Rizelus, was so encouraged +by this good reception of a poet, that he entreated for permission to sing +in his native Lithuanian tongue, and celebrated the deeds of the first +king of the Litwini, Wajdewut. The Grand-Master and the knights, not +understanding and disliking the Lithuanian speech, ridiculed the poet, and +gave him a present of a plate of empty nutshells. In Prussia the Crusaders +forbade officials and all who approached the court to use the Lithuanian +tongue, under penalty of death; they banished from the country, together +with the Jews and gipsies, the Wajdelotes, or Lithuanian bards, who alone +knew and could relate the national annals. Again in Lithuania, after the +introduction of the Christian faith and the Polish language, the ancient +priests and the native speech fell into disrepute, and were forgotten; +thence the common people, changed to serfs, and attached to the soil, +having abandoned the sword, also forgot those chivalric songs. Still +something has remained of their ancient annals and heroic verse, long +joined with superstition, communicated in secret to the people. Simon +Grunau, in the sixteenth century, came by accident on the Prussians at a +solemnity, and with difficulty saved his life, on promising the peasants, +that he never would reveal to any one what he should see or hear; then, +after performing sacrifice, an old Wajdelote began to sing the deeds of +the ancient Lithuanian heroes, mingling therewith prayers and moral +instructions. Grunau, who well understood Lithuanian, confesses that he +never expected to hear anything similar from the lips of a Lithuanian, +such was the beauty of the theme and the phraseology. + +(10) _"__Stands visibly the pestilential maid.__"_ + +The common people in Lithuania figure pestilential air under the form of a +maiden, whose appearance, here described according to the popular song, +precedes a terrible sickness. I quote, in substance at least, a ballad I +once heard in Lithuania: --"In a village appeared the maiden of the +pestilence; and, after her custom, thrusting her hand through door or +window, and waving a red cloth, scattered death through the houses. The +inhabitants shut themselves up in a state of siege, but hunger and other +necessities soon obliged them to neglect such means of safety; all +therefore awaited death. A certain gentleman, although well provided with +victuals, and able to maintain a long while this strange siege, yet +resolved to sacrifice himself for the good of his neighbours, took a sabre +of the time of the Sigismonds, on which was the name of Jesus and the name +of Mary, and thus armed, opened the window of the house. The gentleman, +with one stroke, cut off the spectre's hand, and got possession of the +handkerchief. It is true he died, and all his family died; but from that +time the disease was never known in the village." This handkerchief was +said to be preserved in the church, I do not recollect of what village. In +the East, before the appearance of the plague, a phantom with bats' wings +is said to appear, and to point with its fingers at those condemned to +die. It appears as though popular imagination wished to present, by such +images, that mysterious foreboding and strange anxiety which usually +precedes great misfortune or destruction, and which often is shared, not +by individuals only, but by whole nations. Thus in Greece were forebodings +of the long duration and terrible results of the Peloponnesian war; in the +Roman Empire of the fall of monarchy; in America of the coming of the +Spaniards. + +(11) _"__The trees of Bialowiez.__"_ + +[The trees here referred to are of an immense age and extra-ordinary +height, challenging comparison with the giant trees of California. Many of +them were venerated as divinities by the pagans of Lithuania, in whose +religion tree and serpent worship formed a prominent feature. Oracles were +supposed to be given from a peculiar species of oak, called Baublis, ever +green both summer and winter. In the trunk of one of these, cut down about +the year 1845, there were counted 1417 rings.] + +(12) _"__Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.__"_ + +The Lithuanians used to burn prisoners of war, especially Germans, as +offerings to the gods. For this purpose was set aside the leader, or the +most distinguished of the knights for high descent and bravery; if several +had become prisoners, the unfortunate victim was chosen by lot. For +example, after the victory of the Lithuanians over the Crusaders, in the +year 1315, Stryjkowski says: "And Litwa and Zmudz (Samogitia) after this +victory, and after taking abundant spoil from their conquered and +thunder-stricken foes, when they had paid to their gods sacrifices and the +accustomed prayers, burnt alive a distinguished Crusader of the name of +Gerard Rudde, the chief of the prisoners, with the horse on which he made +war, and with the armour which he had worn, on a lofty pile of wood; and +with the smoke they sent his soul to heaven, and scattered his body to the +winds with the ashes." + +(13) _"__They gave me the name of Walter.__"_ + +Walter von Stadion, a German knight, taken prisoner by the Lithuanians, +married the daughter of Kiejstut, and with her secretly departed from +Lithuania. It frequently occurred that Prussians and Lithuanians, carried +off as children, and educated in Germany, returned to their country, and +became the bitterest foes of the Germans. Thus the Prussian Herkus Monte +was remarkable in the annals of the Order. + +(14) _War._ + +The picture of this war is drawn from history. [The circumstances of +Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, no doubt largely furnished the painful and +realistic details in the text.] + +(15) _"__The secret tribunal descends to council.__"_ + +In the Middle Ages, when powerful dukes and barons frequently permitted +themselves great crimes, when the power of ordinary tribunals was too weak +to humble them, secret brotherhoods were formed, whose members, unknown to +one another, bound themselves by oath to punish the guilty, not pardoning +even their own friends or relatives. As soon as the secret judges had +pronounced the decree of death, the condemned man was made aware of it, by +a voice calling under his windows, or somewhere in his presence, the +word--_Weh!_ (woe!) This word, three times repeated, was a warning that he +who heard it should prepare for death, which he must infallibly and +unexpectedly receive from an unknown hand. The secret court was called the +_fehm_ tribunal (Vehmgericht) or Westphalian. It is difficult to determine +its origin; according to some writers it was instituted by Charlemagne. At +first necessary, it gave opportunity for many abuses later on, and +governments were forced to exercise severity occasionally against the +judges themselves, before this institution was completely overthrown. +[Scott's graphic description in "Anne of Geierstein" of the court and +procedure of the Vehmgericht will be instantly suggested.] + +(16) _"__A sudden cry.__"_ + + _--__"__What cleaves the silent air,_ +_So madly shrill, so passing wild?_ +_It was a woman's shriek, and ne'er_ +_In madlier ascents rose despair;_ +_And they who heard it as it passed,_ +_In mercy wished it were the last.__"_--PARISINA. + +[The coincidence, or borrowing of ideas, is manifest, but the image has +been amplified and beautified in the Polish poem.] + +_N.B._--In all the Polish words retained in the text, _j_ is pronounced +like _y_, and _w_ like _v_. + + PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. + + EDINBURGH AND LONDON. + + + + + + 1 Lithuanian woman. + + 2 Inhabitant of Rus (White Russia, Little Russia, also Red Russia, or + Galicia). + + 3 Pole. The native name of _Polska_ is derived from _pole_=field, and + _Lachy_=plain of the Lachs. + + 4 Bard. + + 5 "Exoriare aliquis ex ossibus nostris ultor." + + --neid, B. iv. l. 625. + + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KONRAD WALLENROD*** + + + +CREDITS + + +October 9, 2010 + + Project Gutenberg TEI edition 1 + Produced by Jimmy O'Regan. 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You may copy it, + give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project + Gutenberg License <a href="#pglicense" class="tei tei-ref">included with this + eBook</a> or online at <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/license" class="tei tei-xref">http://www.gutenberg.org/license</a></p></div><pre class="pre tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">Title: Konrad Wallenrod + +Author: Adam Mickiewicz + +Release Date: October 9, 2010 [Ebook #34050] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KONRAD WALLENROD*** +</pre></div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + + </div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page1">[pg 1]</span> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.73em"><span style="font-size: 173%">KONRAD WALLENROD.</span></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style="font-size: 144%">An Historical Poem.</span></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">BY</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style="font-size: 144%">ADAM MICKIEWICZ.</span></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-style: italic">TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH INTO ENGLISH VERSE</span></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">BY</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">MISS MAUDE ASHURST BIGGS.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 4.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere... +bisogna essere volpe e leone.”</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Macchiavelli</span></span>, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-style: italic">Il Principe</span></span>.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">LONDON:</span></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.</span></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">1882.</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-style: italic">[All rights reserved]</span></p> + +</div> +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <a name="pdf1" id="pdf1"></a> + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1> + <ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"><li><a href="#toc2">AUTHOR'S PREFACE</a></li><li><a href="#toc4">TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE</a></li><li><a href="#toc6">Introduction.</a></li><li><a href="#toc8">I. The Election.</a></li><li><a href="#toc10">II.</a></li><li><a href="#toc12">III.</a></li><li><a href="#toc14">IV. The Festival.</a></li><li><a href="#toc16">V. War.</a></li><li><a href="#toc18">VI. The Parting.</a></li><li><a href="#toc20"> +NOTES. +</a></li></ul> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-body" style="margin-bottom: 6.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageii">[pg ii]</span> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co.</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-style: italic">Edinburgh and London</span></p> +</div> +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageiii">[pg iii]</span> +<a name="toc2" id="toc2"></a> +<a name="pdf3" id="pdf3"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">AUTHOR'S PREFACE</span></h1> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The</span></span> Lithuanian nation, formed out of the tribes of +the Litwini, Prussians and Leti, not very numerous, +settled in an inextensive country, not very fertile, +long unknown to Europe, was called, about the +thirteenth century, by the incursions of its neighbours, +to a more active part. When the Prussians +submitted to the swords of the Teutonic knights, the +Lithuanians, issuing from their forests and marshes, +annihilated with sword and fire the neighbouring +empires, and soon became terrible in the north. +History has not as yet satisfactorily explained by +what means a nation so weak, and so long tributary +to foreigners, was able all at once to oppose and +threaten all its enemies—on one side, carrying on +a constant and murderous war with the Teutonic +Order; on the other, plundering Poland, exacting +tribute from Great Novgorod, and pushing itself as +far as the borders of the Wolga and the Crimean +peninsula. The brightest period of Lithuanian +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageiv">[pg iv]</span> +history occurs in the time of Olgierd and Witold, +whose rule extended from the Baltic to the Black +Sea. But this monstrous empire, having sprung +up too quickly, could not create in itself internal +strength, to unite and invigorate its differing portions. +The Lithuanian nationality, spread over too +large a surface of territory, lost its proper character. +The Litwini subjugated many Russian tribes, +and entered into political relations with Poland. +The Slavs, long since Christians, stood in a higher +degree of civilisation, and although conquered, or +threatened by Lithuania, gained by gradual influence +a moral preponderance over their strong, +but barbarous tyrants, and absorbed them, as the +Chinese their Tartar invaders. The Jagellons, and +their more powerful vassals, became Poles; many +Lithuanian princes adopted the Russian religion, +language, and nationality. By these means the +Grand Duchy of Lithuania ceased to be Lithuanian; +the nation proper found itself within its former +boundaries, its speech ceased to be the language +of the court and nobility, and was only preserved +among the common people. Litwa presents the +singular spectacle of a people which disappeared in +the immensity of its conquests, as a brook sinks +after an excessive overflow, and flows in a narrower +bed than before. +</p> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagev">[pg v]</span> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The circumstances here mentioned are covered +by some centuries. Both Lithuania, and her +cruellest enemy, the Teutonic Order, have disappeared +from the scene of political life; the relations +between neighbouring nations are entirely changed; +the interests and passions which kindled the wars +of that time are now expired; even popular song +has not preserved their memory. Litwa is now +entirely in the past: her history presents from this +circumstance a happy theme for poetry; so that a +poet, in singing of the events of that time, objects +only of historic interest, must occupy himself with +searching into, and with artfully rendering the subject, +without summoning to his aid the interests, +passions, or fashions of his readers. For such +subjects Schiller recommended poets to seek. +</p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Was unsterblich im Gesang will leben,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Muss im Leben untergehen.”</span></div> +</div> +</div> +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagevii">[pg vii]</span> +<a name="toc4" id="toc4"></a> +<a name="pdf5" id="pdf5"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE</span></h1> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The</span></span> Teutonic Order, originally, like the Knights +Hospitallers, established in the Holy Land about +1199, settled, after the cessation of the Crusades, +in the country bordering upon the Baltic Sea, at +the mouth of the Vistula, in the year 1225. The +possession of the Baltic shores, and of such lands +as the Order should conquer from the pagan +Prussians and Litwini, was assured to them by +Konrad, Duke of Masowsze, brother to Leszek +the White of Poland. The fatal error thus committed, +in abandoning a hold on the sea-coast, had +afterwards a disastrous effect on the history of +Poland. The Order speedily made themselves +masters of the whole country of Prussia, and +were engaged in ceaseless war with the pagans +of Lithuania, under pretext of their conversion; +more frequently, it is however to be feared, for +purposes of raid and plunder. It is, in fact, upon +record that a certain Lithuanian prince, who had +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageviii">[pg viii]</span> +offered to embrace Christianity for the purpose of +recovering part of his territory conquered by the +Order, upon finding that his conversion would +produce no better disposition in them towards +himself, declared his intention of abiding in +paganism, with the remark that he saw it was +no question of his faith, but of his possessions. +The plundering expeditions of the Teutonic +knights up country, in which many of the chivalry +of all Europe frequently bore a part, were +termed <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">reyses</span></span>. The English reader will remember +how Chaucer’s knight had fought <span class="tei tei-q">“aboven alle +nations in Pruce.”</span> +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: center">“In <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">Lettow had he reysed</span></span> and in Ruce.”</span> +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Henry IV. also, during his banishment, fought in +the ranks of the Order. +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +After the conversion of Lithuania, and the union +of that country with Poland, the Teutonic knights +were frequently engaged in hostilities with both +powers combined, sustaining in the year 1410 a +terrible defeat at Tannenberg in E. Prussia, from +the forces of Jagellon. In this battle it is worthy +of note that the famous John Ziska was engaged. +In 1466 Casimir Jagellon inflicted heavy losses on +the Order. After its secularisation in 1521, when +the Grand-Master Albert embraced the reformed +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageix">[pg ix]</span> +faith, the domains of E. Prussia were held as a +fief from Poland. In 1657 Prussia became an +independent state under Frederick William, the +great Elector. It is curious to observe how the +name of Prussia, originally that of a conquered, +non-Germanic people, has become in our time +that of the first German power in the world. +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The historical circumstances on which the poem +of <span class="tei tei-q">“Konrad Wallenrod”</span> is founded are thus detailed +at length by the author himself, in the following +postscript to the work:— +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“We have called our story historical, for the +characters of the actors, and all the more important +circumstances mentioned therein, are sketched according +to history. The contemporary chronicles, +in fragmentary and broken portions, must be filled +out sometimes only by guesses and conjectures, in +order to create some historic entirety from them. +Although I have permitted myself conjectures in the +history of Wallenrod, I hope to justify them by their +likeness to truth. According to the chronicle, Konrad +Wallenrod was not descended from the family +of Wallenrod renowned in Germany, though he gave +himself out as a member of it. He was said to +have been born of some illicit connection. The +royal chronicle says, <span class="tei tei-q">‘Er war ein Pfaffenkind.’</span> +Concerning the character of this singular man, we +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagex">[pg x]</span> +read many and contradictory traditions. The +greater number of the chroniclers reproach him +with pride, cruelty, drunkenness, severity towards +his subordinates, little zeal for religion, and even +with hatred for ecclesiastics. <span class="tei tei-q">‘<span lang="de" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="de">Er war ein rechter +Leuteschinder (library of Wallenrod). Nach Krieg, +Zank, und Hader hat sein Herz immer gestanden; +und ob er gleich ein Gott ergebener Mensch von +wegen seines Ordens sein wollte, doch ist er allen +frommen geistlichen Menschen Graüel gewesen. +(David Lucas). Er regierte nicht lange, denn Gott +plagte ihn inwendig mit dem laufenden Feuer.</span>’</span> +On the other hand, contemporary writers ascribe to +him greatness of intellect, courage, nobility, and +force of character; since without rare qualities he +could not have maintained his empire amid universal +hatred and the disasters which he brought upon +the Order. Let us now consider the proceedings +of Wallenrod. When he assumed the rule of the +Order, the season appeared favourable for war with +Lithuania, for Witold had promised himself to lead +the Germans to Wilna, and liberally repay them for +their assistance. Wallenrod, however, delayed to +go to war; and, what was worse, offended Witold, +and reposed such careless confidence in him, that +this prince, having secretly become reconciled to +Jagellon, not only departed from Prussia, but on +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexi">[pg xi]</span> +the road, entering the German castles, burnt them +as an enemy, and slaughtered the garrisons. In +such an unimagined change of circumstances, it +was needful to neglect the war, or undertake it +with great prudence. The Grand-Master proclaimed +a crusade, wasted the treasures of the +Order in preparation—5,000,000 marks—a sum +at that time immeasurable, and marched towards +Lithuania. He could have captured Wilna, if he +had not wasted time in banquets and waiting for +auxiliaries. Autumn came; Wallenrod, leaving the +camp without provisions, retired in the greatest +disorder to Prussia. The chroniclers and later +historians were not able to imagine the cause of +this sudden departure, not finding in contemporary +circumstances any cause therefor. Some have +assigned the flight of Wallenrod to derangement +of intellect. All the contradictions mentioned in +the character and conduct of our hero may be reconciled +with each other, if we suppose that he +was a Lithuanian, and that he had entered the +Order to take vengeance on it; especially since +his rule gave the severest shock to the power of +the Order. We suppose that Wallenrod was Walter +Stadion (see note), shortening only by some years +the time which passed between the departure of +Walter from Lithuania, and the appearance of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexii">[pg xii]</span> +Konrad in Marienbourg. Wallenrod died suddenly +in the year 1394; strange events were said to +have accompanied his death. <span class="tei tei-q">‘Er starb,’</span> says +the chronicle; <span class="tei tei-q">‘<span lang="de" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="de">in Raserei ohne letzte Oehlung, +ohne Priestersegen, kurz vor seinem Tode +wütheten Stürme, Regensgüsse, Wasserfluthen; +die Weichsel und die Nogat durchwühlten ihre +Dämme; hingegen wühlten die gewässer sich eine +neue Tiefe da, wo jetzt Pilau steht!</span>’</span> Halban, or, +as the chroniclers call him, Doctor Leander von +Albanus, a monk, the solitary and inseparable +companion of Wallenrod, though he assumed the +appearance of piety, was according to the chroniclers +a heretic, a pagan, and perhaps a wizard. Concerning +Halban’s death, there are no certain accounts. +Some write that he was drowned, others +that he disappeared secretly, or was carried away +by demons. I have drawn the chronicles chiefly +from the works of Kotzebue, <span class="tei tei-q">‘<span lang="de" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="de">Preussens Geschichte, +Belege und Erläuterungen.</span>’</span> Hartknoch, in calling +Wallenrod <span class="tei tei-q">‘unsinnig,’</span> gives a very short account of +him.”</span> +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As to the conditions under which the poem was +written, it is perhaps needful to state that it was +composed by Mickiewicz, during the term of his +banishment into Russia, and was first published at +St. Petersburg in the year 1828. In the character of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexiii">[pg xiii]</span> +the hero of the story, and in various circumstances +of the poem, it is impossible not to recognise the +influence of Lord Byron’s poetry, which obtained +so powerful an ascendency over the works and +imaginations of the Continental romanticists, and +had thus an influence over foreign literature not +conceded in the poet’s own country. The Byronic +character, however, presents a far nobler aspect in +the hands of the present author than in those of +its original creator; for, instead of being the outcome +of a mere morbid self-concentration, and +brooding over personal wrongs, it is the result of +a noble indignation for the sufferings of others, and +is conjoined with a high purpose for good, even +though such good be worked out by means in +themselves doubtful or questionable. +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We cannot pass by the subject without saying a +word as to the undercurrent of political meaning +in <span class="tei tei-q">“Konrad Wallenrod,”</span> which fortunately escaped +the rigid censorship of the Russian press. Lithuania, +conquered and oppressed by the Teutonic +Order, is Poland, subjugated by Russia; and the +numerous expressions of hatred for oppressors and +love of an unhappy country woven into the substance +of the narrative must be read as the utterances +of a Pole against Russian tyranny. The +underhand machinations of the concealed enemy +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexiv">[pg xiv]</span> +against the state in which he is a powerful leader, +may be held to figure that intricate web of intrigue +and conspiracy which Russian liberalism is gradually +weaving throughout the whole political system, +and which is daily gaining influence and power. +The character of Wallenrod is essentially the same +as that of Cooper’s <span class="tei tei-q">“Spy;”</span> but we cannot suppose +that the author intended to hold up trickery and +deceit as praiseworthy and honourable, even though +it is the sad necessity of slaves to use treachery as +their only weapon; or that the Macchiavellian +precept with which the story is headed is at all +intended as one to be generally followed by seekers +of political liberty against despotism. The end and +aim of this, as of all the works of Mickiewicz, is to +show us a great and noble soul, noble in spite of +many errors and vices, striving to work out a high +ideal, and the fulfilment of a noble purpose; and +to exhibit the heroism of renunciation of personal +ease and enjoyment for the sake of the world’s or +a nation’s good. +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In regard to the method used in the English +version, it is only necessary to add that as far as +possible verbal accuracy in rendering has been +endeavoured after; and an attempt, at least conscientious—whether +or not partially successful +must be left to the sentence of those qualified to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexv">[pg xv]</span> +form an opinion—has been made to reproduce as +nearly as may be something of the original spirit +In translating the main body of the narrative +blank verse has been the medium employed, not +as at all representing the beautiful and harmonious +interchange of rhymes and play of rhythm so +conspicuous in the Polish lines; but as securing, +by reason of freedom from the necessity for +rhymes, a truer verbal rendering, and as being the +measure par excellence best suited to English +narrative verse. The <span class="tei tei-q">“Wajdelote’s Tale”</span> has for +similar reasons been rendered into the same form, +instead of being reproduced in the original hexameter +stanza, as strange to the Polish as to the +English tongue, wherein, despite the works of +Longfellow and Clough, it can hardly be said to +have yet become thoroughly naturalised. Most +of the lyrics are translated into the same metres +as the originals, with the sole exception of the +ballad of Alpujara. This, as being upon a Spanish +or Moorish subject, it was judged best to render +into a form nearly resembling that of the ancient +Spanish ballad, and employed by Bishop Percy in +translation of the <span class="tei tei-q">“Rio Verde,”</span> and other poems +from a like source. Moreover, the original <span class="tei tei-q">“Alpujara”</span> +is couched in a metre which, though extremely +well suited to the Polish tongue, is difficult +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexvi">[pg xvi]</span> +of imitation in English; or only to be imitated by +great loss of accuracy in rendering. +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In concluding, the translator begs to express a +hope that this humble effort to present, however +feebly, to the reading public of Great Britain an +image of the work of the greatest of Polish poets, +may, not be wholly unacceptable. Any defects +which the critical eye may note, must undoubtedly +be laid rather to the charge of the copyist, than to +the original of the great master. I dare, however, +to trust, that the shadow of so great a name, and +the sincere wish to contribute this slender homage +to the memory of one of Europe’s most illustrious +writers, may serve as an excuse for over-presumption. +</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">London</span></span>, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">March</span></span> 1882. +</p> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page1">[pg 1]</span> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style="font-size: 144%">KONRAD WALLENROD</span></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-style: italic">AN HISTORICAL TALE.</span></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">(FROM THE ANNALS OF LITHUANIA AND PRUSSIA.)</span></p> + +<span class="tei tei-q">“Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere... +bisogna essere volpe e leone.”</span> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Macchiavelli</span></span>, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-style: italic">Il Principe</span></span>.</p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc6" id="toc6"></a> +<a name="pdf7" id="pdf7"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Introduction.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">A hundred</span></span> years have passed since first the Order</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Waded in blood of Northern heathenesse;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Prussian now had bent his neck to chains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or, yielding up his heritage, removed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With life alone. The German followed after,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tracking the fugitive; he captive made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And murdered unto Litwa’s farthest bound.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Niemen divideth Litwa from the foe;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On one side gleam the sanctuary fanes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And forests murmur, dwellings of the gods.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page2">[pg 2]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon the other shore the German ensign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The cross, implanted on a hill, doth veil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Its forehead in the clouds, and stretches forth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Its threatening arms towards Litwa, as it would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Gather all lands of Palemon together,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Embrace them all, assembled ’neath its rule.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This side, the multitude of Litwa’s youth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">kolpak</span></span> of the lynx-hide and in skins</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Clad of the bear, the bow upon their shoulders,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their hands all filled with darts, they prowl around,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tracking the German wiles. On the other side,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In mail and helmet armed, the German sits</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon his charger motionless; while fixed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His eyes upon the entrenchments of the foe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He loads his arquebuse and counts his beads.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And these and those alike the passage guard.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Niemen thus, of hospitable fame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In ancient days, uniting heritage</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of brother nations, now for them becomes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The threshold of eternity, and none,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But by foregoing liberty or life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cross the forbidden waters. Only now</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A trailer of the Lithuanian hop,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page3">[pg 3]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Drawn by allurement of the Prussian poplar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stretches its fearless arms, as formerly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Leaping the river, with luxuriant wreaths,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Twines with its loved one on a foreign shore.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The nightingales from Kowno’s groves of oak</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Still with their brethren of Zapuszczan mount,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Converse, as once, in Lithuanian speech.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or having on free pinions ’scaped, they fly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As guests familiar, on the neutral isles.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And mankind?—War has severed human kind!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The ancient love of nations has departed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Into oblivion. Love by time alone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Uniteth human hearts.—Two hearts I knew.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O Niemen! soon upon thy fords shall rush</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hosts bearing death and burning, and thy shores,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sacred till now, the axe shall render bare</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of all their garlands; soon the cannon’s roar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shall from the gardens fright the nightingales.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where nature with a golden chain hath bound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The hatred of the nations shall divide;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It severs all things. But the hearts of lovers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shall in the Wajdelote’s song unite once more.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page4">[pg 4]</span> +<a name="toc8" id="toc8"></a> +<a name="pdf9" id="pdf9"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">The Election.</span></h1> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div id="n_1" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In towers of Marienbourg<a href="#note_1" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">1</span></a> the bells are ringing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The cannon thunder loud, the drums are beating.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This in the Order is a solemn day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Komturs hasten to the capital,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where, gathered in the chapter’s conclave, they,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Holy Spirit invoked, take counsel who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is worthiest to bear the mighty sword,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Into whose hands may they confide the sword?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One day, and yet another flowed away</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In council; many heroes there contend.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And all alike of noble race, and all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alike deserving in the Order’s cause.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But hitherto the brethren’s general voice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Placed Wallenrod the highest over all</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A stranger he, in Prussia all unknown,</div> +<div id="n_2" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But foreign houses of his fame were full<a href="#note_2" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">2</span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Following the Moors upon Castilian sierras,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Ottoman through ocean’s troubled waves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In battle at the front, first on the wall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To grapple vessels of the infidel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The first; and in the tourney, soon as he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Entered the lists and deigned his visor raise,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page5">[pg 5]</span> +<div id="n_3" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">None dared with him the strife of keen-edged +swords,<a href="#note_3" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">3</span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By one accord the victor’s garland yielding.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But not alone amid Crusading hosts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He with the sword had glorified his youth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For many Christian graces him adorn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Poverty, humbleness, of earth disdain.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But Konrad shone not in the courtly crowd</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By polished speech, by well-turned reverence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nor e’er his sword for vile advantage sold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To service of disputing barons. He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Had consecrated to the cloister walls</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His youthful years; all plaudits he disdained,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And ruler’s place, even higher, sweeter meeds.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nor minstrel’s hymn, nor beauty’s fair regard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Could speak to his cold spirit. Wallenrod</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Listens unmoved to praise, and looks afar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On lovely cheeks, enchanting discourse flies.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Had Nature made him thus unfeeling, proud?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or age? For albeit young in years, his locks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Were grey already, withered were his looks,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And sufferings sealed by age.—Twere hard to guess.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He would at times divide the sports of youth,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page6">[pg 6]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or listen, pleased, to sound of female tongues,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To courtiers’ jests reply with other jests;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or scatter unto ladies courteous words</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With chilly smile, as dainties cast to children—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These were rare moments of forgetfulness;—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And speedily some light, unmeaning word,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That had no sense for others, woke in him</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Passionate stirrings. These words: Fatherland,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Duty, Beloved,—the mention of Crusades,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Litwa, all the mirth of Wallenrod</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Instantly poisoned. Hearing them, again</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He turned away his countenance, again</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Became to all around insensible,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And buried him in thoughts mysterious.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Maybe, remembering his holy call,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He would forbid himself the sweets of earth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sweets of friendship only did he know,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One only friend had chosen to himself,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A saint by virtue and by holy state.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This was a hoary monk; men called him Halban.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He shared the loneliness of Wallenrod;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He was alike confessor of his soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And of his heart the trusted confidant</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O blessed friendship! saint is he on earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whom friendship with the holy ones unites.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page7">[pg 7]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus do the leaders of the Order’s council</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Discourse of Konrad’s virtues. But one fault</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Was his,—for who may spotless be from faults?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Konrad loved not the riots of the world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nor mingled Konrad in the drunken feast.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Though truly, in his secret chamber locked,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When weariness or sorrow tortured him,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He sought for solace in a burning draught;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And then he seemed a new form to indue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And then his visage pallid and severe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A sickly red adorned, and his large eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Erst heavenly blue, but somewhat now by time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dulled and extinguished, shot the lightnings forth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of ancient fires, while sighs of grief escape</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From forth his breast, and with the pearly tear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The laden eyelid swells; the hand the lute</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Seeks, the lips pour forth songs; the songs are sung</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In speech of a strange land, but yet the hearts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of the hearers understand them. ’Tis enough</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To list that grave-like music, ’tis enough</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The singer’s form to contemplate, to see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Memory’s inspiration on that face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To view the lifted brows and sideward looks,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Striving to snatch some object from deep darkness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What may the hidden thread be of the songs?</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page8">[pg 8]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He tracketh surely, in this wandering chase,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In thought his youth through deep gulfs of the past.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where is his soul?—In the land of memories!</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But never did that hand in music’s impulse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mere joyful tones from out the lute evoke;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And still it seemed his countenance did fear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Innocent smiles, even as deadly sins.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All strings he strikes in turn, one string except—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Except the string of mirth;—the hearer shares</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All feelings with him,—one excepted—hope!</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not seldom him the brethren have surprised,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And marvelled at his unaccustomed change.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Konrad, aroused, did writhe himself and rage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Had cast away the lute and ceased to sing.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He spoke out loudly impious words; to Halban</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whispered some secret things; called to the host,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Gave forth commands, and uttered dreadful threats,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On whom they knew not. All their hearts were +troubled.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Old Halban tranquil sits, and on the face</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of Konrad drowns his glance,—a piercing glance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cold and severe, full of some secret speech.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page9">[pg 9]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Something he may recall, some counsel give,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or waken grief in heart of Wallenrod,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whose cloudy brow at once is calm again,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His eyes forego their fires, his rage is cool.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus when, in public sport, the lionward,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Before assembled lords, and dames, and knights,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unbars the grating of the iron cage.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The trumpet signal given, the royal beast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Growls from his deep breast, horror falls on all.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alone his keeper moveth not a step,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Folds tranquilly upon his breast his hands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And smites with power the lion,—by the eye.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With talisman of an undying soul</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unreasoning strength in bonds he doth control.</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page10">[pg 10]</span> +<a name="toc10" id="toc10"></a> +<a name="pdf11" id="pdf11"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">II.</span></h1> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now from the hall of council to the chapel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Comes the chief Komtur, then the chiefest rulers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The chaplain, brothers, and assembled knights.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The chapter listen vesper orisons,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And sing a hymn unto the Holy Spirit</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Hymn.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Spirit! Thou Holy One,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thou Dove of Sion’s Hill!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This Christian world, the footstool of Thy throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">With glory visible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Lighten, that all behold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thy wings o’er Sion’s brotherhood unfold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And let Thy glory shine from underneath</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 3.00em">Thy wings, with sunlike rays.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page11">[pg 11]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And him, the worthiest of so holy praise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Circle his temples with Thy golden wreath.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fall on the visage of that son of man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whom shadows o’er Thy wings’ protecting van.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Thou Saviour Son!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With beckoning of Thy hand almighty, deign</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">To point of many one,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Worthiest to hold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And wear the sacred symbol of Thy pain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To lead with Peter’s sword thy soldiery,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Before the eyes of heathenesse unfold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The standards of Thy heavenly empery.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then let the sons of earth bow lowly down,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Him on whose breast the cross shall gleam to own.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div id="n_4" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Prayers o’er, they parted. The Archkomtur<a href="#note_4" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">4</span></a> ordered</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">After repose, to seek the choir again;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Again entreat that Heaven would enlighten</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Chaplains and brethren, called to such election.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So went they forth themselves to recreate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With the cool freshness of the night; and some</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sat in the castle porch, and others walk</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page12">[pg 12]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Through gardens and through groves. The night +was still;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was the fair May season; from afar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Peeped forth the pale uncertain dawn; the moon,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Having the sapphire plains o’ercoursed, with aspect</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Changing, with varying lustre in her eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now in a shadowy, now a silvery cloud</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Slumbering, now sank her still and tranquil head,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like to a lover in the wilderness;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dreaming in thought, life’s circle he o’erruns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All hopes, all sweetness, and all sufferings.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now sheds he tears, now joyful is his glance.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At length upon his breast the weary brow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sinketh, and falls in sense’s lethargy.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By walking other knights beguile the time,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But the Archkomtur wastes no time in vain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He quickly summons Halban and the chiefs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unto himself, and leads them to one side;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That, from the curious crowd afar removed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They may pursue their counsels and impart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forewarnings; from the castle go they forth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They hasten to the plain. Conversing thus,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All heedless of their path, some hours astray</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They wandered in the region close beside</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page13">[pg 13]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The inlets of a tranquil lake. ’Tis morn!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This hour they should regain the capital.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They stop,—a voice,—whence? From the corner +tower!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They listen,—’tis the voice of the recluse!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Long time within this tower, ten summers since,</div> +<div id="n_5" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some unknown pious woman, from afar,<a href="#note_5" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">5</span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who came to Mary’s town,—Maybe that Heaven</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Inspired her blest design, or with the balm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of penance she would heal the wounds of conscience,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Did seek the shelter of a lone recluse,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And here she found while living yet a tomb.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Long time the chaplains would not give consent.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then, wearied by the constancy of prayers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They gave her in this tower a shelter lone.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scarcely the sacred threshold had she crossed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When o’er the threshold bricks and stones were +piled;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The angels only, in the judgment-day</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shall ope the door which parts her from the living.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Above a little window and a grate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whereby the pious folk send nourishment,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page14">[pg 14]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Heaven sends breezes and the rays of day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Poor sinner! was it hatred of the world</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Abused thy young heart to so great extreme</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That thou dost fear the sun. and heaven’s fair face?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scarcely imprisoned in her living grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">None saw her, through the window of the tower,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Receive upon her lips the wind’s fresh breath,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nor look upon the heaven in sunshine beauty,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or the sweet flowerets on the plain of earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or, dearer hundred-fold, her fellow-men.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Tis only known that still she is in life;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For when betimes a holy pilgrim wanders</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Near her retreat by night, a sweet, low sound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Holds him awhile. Certain it is the sound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of pious hymns. And when the village children</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Together in the oak-grove sport at eve,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then from the window shines a streak of white,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As ’twere a sunbeam from the rising dawn.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is it an amber ringlet of her hair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or lustre of her slender, snowy hand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Blessing those innocent heads? The chivalry</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hear as they pass the corner tower these words:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou art Konrad! Heaven! Fate is now fulfilled!</span></div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page15">[pg 15]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou shalt be Master, that thou mayest destroy +them!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Will they not recognise?—Thou hid’st in vain.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Though like the serpent’s were thy body changed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yet of the past would in thy soul remain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Many things still,—truly they cleave to me.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Though after burial thou shouldst return,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Then, even then, would the Crusaders know +thee!”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The knights attend,—’tis the recluse’s voice;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They look upon the grate; she bending seems,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Towards the earth she seems her arms to stretch.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To whom? The region is all desert round;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Only from far strikes an uncertain gleam,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In likeness of a steely helmet’s flame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A shadow on the earth, a knightly cloak;—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Already it has vanished. Certainly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Twas an illusion of the eyes, most certain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was the rosy glance of morn that gleamed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For morning’s clouds now rolled away from earth.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Brothers!”</span> spoke Halban, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“give we thanks to +Heaven,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For certain Heaven’s decree hath led us here;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Trust we to the recluse’s prophet voice.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page16">[pg 16]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heard ye? She made a prophecy of Konrad,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Konrad, the name of valiant Wallenrod!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let brother unto brother give the hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And knightly word, and in to-morrow’s council</div> +<div id="n_6" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Our Master he!”</span><a href="#note_6" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">6</span></a>—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Agreed,”</span> they cried, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“agreed!”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And shouting went they. Far along the vale</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Resounds the voice of triumph and of joy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Long Konrad live! long the Grand-Master live!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Long live the Order! perish heathenesse!”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Halban remained behind, in deep thought plunged;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He on the shouters cast an eye of scorn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He looked towards the tower, and in low tones,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This song he sang, departing from the place:—</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Song.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wilija, thou parent of streams in our land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heaven-blue is thy visage and golden thy sand;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But, lovely Litwinka,<a id="noteref_1" name="noteref_1" href="#note_1"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">1</span></span></a> who drinkest its wave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Far purer thy heart, and thy beauty more brave.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wilija, thou flowest through Kowno’s fair vale,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Amid the gay tulips and narcissus pale.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page17">[pg 17]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At the feet of the maiden, the flower of our youth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Than roses, than tulips, far fairer in sooth.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Wilija despiseth the valley of flowers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She seeks to the Niemen, her lover, to rove;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Litwinka listens no love-tale of ours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The youth of the strangers has filled her with love.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In powerful embrace doth the Niemen enfold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And beareth o’er rocks and o’er wild deserts lone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He presses his love to his bosom so cold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They perish together in sea-depths unknown.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thee too, poor Litwinka, the stranger shall call</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Away from the joys of that sweet native vale;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou deep in Forgetfulness’ billows must fall,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But sadder thy fate, for alone thou must fail.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For streamlet and heart by no warning are crost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The maiden will love and the Wilija will run;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in her loved Niemen the Wilija is lost,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the dark prison-tower weeps the maiden undone.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page18">[pg 18]</span> +<a name="toc12" id="toc12"></a> +<a name="pdf13" id="pdf13"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">III.</span></h1> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the Grand-Master had the sacred books</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Kissed of the holy laws, and from the Komtur</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Received the sword and grand cross, ensigns high</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of power, he raised his haughty brow. Although</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A cloud of care weighed on him, with his eye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He scattered fire around him. In his glance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Burns exultation, half with anger mixed,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And, guest invisible, upon his face</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hovered a faint and transitory smile,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like lightning which divides the morning cloud,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Boding at once the sunrise and the thunder.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Master’s zeal, his threatening countenance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All hearts with hope and newer courage fills;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Battle before them they behold and plunder,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And pour in thought great floods of pagan blood.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who shall against such ruler dare to stand?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who will not fear his sabre or his glance?</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page19">[pg 19]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tremble, Litwini! for the time is near,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From Wilna’s ramparts when the cross shall shine.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Vain are their hopes, for days and weeks flew by;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In peace a whole long year has flowed away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Litwa threatens. Wallenrod, ignobly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Himself nor combats, nor goes out to war;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And when he rouses and begins to act,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Reverses the old ruling suddenly.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He cries, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The Order has o’erstepped its laws,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The brethren violate their plighted vows.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let us engage in prayer, renounce our treasures,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And seek in virtue and in peace renown.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To penance he compels them, fasts, and burdens;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Denies all pleasures, comforts innocent;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each venial sin doth cruelly chastise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With dungeons underground, exile, the sword.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Meanwhile the Litwin, who long years afar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Had shunned the portals of the Order’s town,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now burns the villages around each night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And captive their defenceless people takes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beneath the very castle proudly boasts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He in the Master’s chapel goes to mass.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page20">[pg 20]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And children trembled on their parents’ threshold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To hear the roar of Samogitia’s horn.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What time were better to begin a war</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While Litwa by internal strife is torn?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here the bold Rusin,<a id="noteref_2" name="noteref_2" href="#note_2"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">2</span></span></a> here the unquiet Lach,<a id="noteref_3" name="noteref_3" href="#note_3"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">3</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Crimean Khans lead on a mighty host;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Witold, by Jagellon dispossessed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Has come to seek protection of the Order;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In recompense doth promise gold and land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But hitherto for help he waits in vain.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The brothers murmur, council now assembles,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Master is not seen. Old Halban hastes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But in the castle, in the chapel finds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not Konrad. Whither is he? At the tower!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The brotherhood have tracked his steps by night.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Tis known to all; for at the evening hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When all the earth is veiled with thickest mists,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He sallies forth to wander by the lake.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or on his knees, supported by the wall,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page21">[pg 21]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Draped in his mantle, till the white dawn gleams,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He lieth, moveless as a marble form,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And unsubdued by sleep the whole night long.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Oft at the soft voice of the fair recluse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He rises, and returns her low replies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No ear their import can discern afar;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But from the lustre of the shaking helm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">View of the lifted head, unquiet hands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Tis seen some discourse pends of weighty things.</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Song from the Tower.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ah! who shall number all my tears and sighs?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Have I so long wept through these weary years?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Was such great bitterness in heart and eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That all this grate is rusty with my tears?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where falls the tear it penetrates the stone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As in a good man’s heart ’twere sinking down.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div id="n_7" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A fire eternal burns in Swentorog’s halls;<a href="#note_7" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">7</span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Its pious priests for ever feed the fire:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From Mendog’s hill a fount eternal falls;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The snows and storm-clouds swell it ever higher.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">None feed the torrent of my sighs and tears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yet pain for ever heart and eyeballs sears.</div> +</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page22">[pg 22]</span> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A father’s care, a mother’s tender love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And a rich castle and a joyous land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Days without longing, nights no dream might move</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Peace like a tranquil angel aye did stand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Near me, abroad, at home, by day and night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Guarding me close, though viewless to the sight.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Three lovely daughters from one mother born,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And I the first demanded as a bride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Happy in youth, happy in joys to be,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who told me there were other joys beside?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O lovely youth! why didst thou tell me more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Than e’er in Litwa any knew before?</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of the great God, of angels bright as day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of stone-built cities where religion rests,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where in rich churches all the people pray,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where princely lords obey their maidens’ hests;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like to our warriors great in warlike pains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tender in love as are our shepherd swains.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where man, from covering of clay set free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A winged soul, flies through a joyful heaven.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I could believe it, for in listening thee</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I had a foretaste of those wonders even.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page23">[pg 23]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ah! since that time, in good and evil plight,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I dream of thee and those fair heavens bright.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The cross upon thy breast rejoiced mine eyes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sign of future bliss therein I read.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alas! when from the cross the thunder flies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All things around are silenced, perished.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nought I regret, though bitter tears I pour;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou tookest all from me, but hope leftst o’er.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Hope!”</span> the low echoes from the shore replied,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The valleys and the forest Konrad woke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And laughing wildly, answered, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Where am I?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To hear in this place—hope? Wherefore this +song?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I do recall thy vanished happiness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Three lovely daughters from one mother born,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thou the first demanded as a bride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Woe unto you, fair flowers! woe to you!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A fearful viper crept into the garden,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And where the reptile’s livid breast has touched</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The grass is withered and the roses fade,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And yellow as the reptile’s bosom grow.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fly from the present in thought; recall the days</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Which thou hadst spent in joyousness without—</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page24">[pg 24]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou’rt silent! Raise thy voice again and curse;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let not the dreadful tear which pierces stones</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Perish in vain. My helmet I’ll remove.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here let it fall; I am prepared to suffer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Would learn betimes what waiteth me in hell.</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Voice from the Tower.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pardon, my loved one, pardon! I am guilty!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Late was thy coming, weary ’twas to wait,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thus, despite myself, some childish song—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Away with it! What have I to regret?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With thee, my love, with thee a passing space</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We lived through; but the memory of that time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I would not change with all earth’s habitants,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For tranquil life passed through in weariness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thyself didst say to me that common men</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Are as those shells deep hidden in the marsh;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scarce once a year by some tempestuous wave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cast up, they peep from out the troubled water,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Open their lips, and sigh forth once towards +heaven,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And to their burial once more return.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No! I am not created for such bliss.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While yet within my Fatherland I dwelt</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page25">[pg 25]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A still life, sometimes in my comrades’ midst</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A longing seized me, and I sighed in secret,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And felt unquiet throbbings in my heart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And sometimes fled I from the lower plain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And standing on the higher hill, I thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If but the larks would give me from their wings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One feather only, I would fly with them,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And only from this mountain wish to pluck</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One little flower, the flower forget-me-not,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And then afar beyond the clouds to fly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Higher and higher, and to disappear!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thou didst hear me! Thou, with eagle +pinions,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Monarch of birds, didst raise me to thyself.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O now, ye larks, I beg for nought from you,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For whither should she fly, what pleasures seek,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who has the great God learned to know in heaven,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And loved a great man on this lower world?</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Konrad.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Greatness, and greatness yet again, mine angel!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Greatness for which we groan in misery!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A few days still,—let it torment the heart,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A few days only, fewer already are.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page26">[pg 26]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Tis done! ’Tis vain to grieve for vanished time.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aye! let us weep, but let our proud foes tremble!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For Konrad wept, but ’twas to murder them!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But wherefore cam’st thou here—wherefore, my +love?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unto God’s service did I vow myself.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Was it not better in His holy walls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Afar from me to live and die than here,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the land of lying and of murderous war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In this tower-grave by long and painful tortures</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To expire, and open solitary eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And through the unbroken fetters of this grate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Implore for help, and I be forced to hear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To look upon the torture of long death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Standing afar, and curse my very soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That harbours relics yet of tenderness?</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Voice from the Tower.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If thou lamentest, hither come no more!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Though thou shouldst come, with burning zeal +implore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou shouldst hear nought. My window now I +close,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Descend once more into my prison darkness.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page27">[pg 27]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let me in silence drink my bitter tears.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Farewell for aye, farewell, my only one!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And let the memory perish of this hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wherein thou didst no pity for me show.</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Konrad.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then thou have pity! for thou art an angel!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stay! But if prayer is powerless to restrain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On the tower’s angle will I strike my head;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I will implore thee by the death of Cain.</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Voice from the Tower.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O let us both have pity on ourselves!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My love, remember, great as is this world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Two of us only on this mighty earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon the seas of sand two drops of dew.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scarce breathes a little wind, from the earthly vale</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For aye we vanish—ah! together perish!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I came not here for this, to torture thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I would not on me take the holy vows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Because I dared not pledge my heart to Heaven,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While yet in it an earthly lover reigned.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I in the cloister would remain, and humbly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Devote my days to service of the nuns.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page28">[pg 28]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But there without thee, everything around</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Was all so new, so wild, so strange to me!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Remembering then that after many years,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou shouldst return again to Mary’s town</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To seek for vengeance on the enemy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The cause defending of a hapless folk,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I said unto myself, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Who waits long years</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shortens with thoughts; maybe he now returns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Maybe is come. Is it not free to ask,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Though living I immure me in the grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That once more I may look upon thy face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That I at least may perish near to thee?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And therefore to the hermit’s narrow house</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon the road, upon the broken rock,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I will betake me, and enclose myself.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some knight maybe, in passing by my hut,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May speak aloud by chance my loved one’s name;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Among the foreign helmets I may view</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His crest; though changed the fashion of his arms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Although a strange device adorn his shield,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Although his face be changed, even then my +heart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Will recognise my lover from afar.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And when a heavy duty him compels</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To shed the blood of all and to destroy,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page29">[pg 29]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And all shall curse him, one heart yet alone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Shall dare afar to bless him.”</span> Here I chose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My habitation and my grave apart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In silence, where the sacrilege of groans</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The traveller dare not listen. Thou, I know,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lovest to walk alone. Within myself</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I thought, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Maybe at even he will come,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Having his comrades left behind, to hold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Converse with winds and billows of the lake;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And he will think of me and hear my voice.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Heaven did fulfil my innocent wish.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou earnest; thou didst understand my song.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I prayed in former times that dreams might bless</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Me with thine image, though the form were mute:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day, what happiness! To-day, together,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Together we may weep!</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Konrad.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em">And wherefore weep?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I wept, thou dost remember, when I tore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Myself for ever from thy dear embrace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And of my free will died from happiness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That thus I might designs of blood fulfil.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That too long martyrdom at length is crowned.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page30">[pg 30]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now stand I at the summit of desires;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I can revenge me on the enemy.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thou hast come to tear my victory from me!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Till now, when from the window of thy turret</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou didst look on me, in the world’s whole circle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Again there seemed no thing to meet my eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But the lake only, and the tower and grate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Around me all with tumult seethes of war.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Mid trumpet clamour, ’mid the clash of arms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I seek impatient with a straining ear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For the angelic sound of thy sweet lips,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And all the day for me is waiting hope.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And when the evening season I have reached,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I wish to lengthen it by memories:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I reckon by its evenings all my life.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Meanwhile the Order murmurs at repose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Entreat for war, demand their own perdition;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And vengeful Halban will not let me breathe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But still recalls to me those ancient vows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The slaughtered hamlets, and the lands destroyed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or if I will not listen his reproaches,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He with one sigh, one glance, one beckoning,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Can blow my smouldering vengeance to a flame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now seems my destiny to near its end;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nought the Crusaders can withhold from war.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page31">[pg 31]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A messenger from Rome came yesterday.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From the world’s every quarter, clouds unnumbered</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A pious zeal hath gathered in the field,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And all call out to me to lead them on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With sword and cross upon the walls of Wilna.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And yet—with shame I must confess—ev’n now,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While destinies of mighty nations pend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I think of thee, and still invent delays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That we may pass together one more day.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O youth! how fearful was thy sacrifice!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When young, love, happiness, a very heaven,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I for a nation’s cause could sacrifice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With grief, but courage;—and to-day, grown old,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day despair, my duty, and God’s will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Compel me to the field, and still I dare not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tear my grey head from these walls’ pedestal,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That I may not forego thy sweet conversing.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He ceased. Groans only issued from the tower.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Long hours flowed by in silence. Now the night</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Reddened, and now the water’s stilly face</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Blushed with the ray of dawn. Among the leaves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of sleeping bushes with a rustling murmur</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The morning freshness flew. The birds awoke</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page32">[pg 32]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With their soft notes, then once again they ceased,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And by long-during silence gave to know</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They had too early woken. Konrad rose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lifted his eyes unto the tower, and looked</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With anguish on the grate. The nightingale</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Awoke in song, then Konrad looked around.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Tis morning! and he let his visor down,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in his cloak’s wide folds concealed his face.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With beckoning of his hand he signs adieu,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in the bushes how is lost</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 10.00em">Ev’n thus,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A spirit infernal from a hermit’s door</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Doth vanish at the sound of matin bell.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page33">[pg 33]</span> +<a name="toc14" id="toc14"></a> +<a name="pdf15" id="pdf15"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">IV.</span></h1> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">The festival.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">It</span></span> was the Patron’s day, a solemn feast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Komturs and brethren to the city ride;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">White banners wave upon the castle towers:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Konrad invites the knights to festival.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A hundred white cloaks wave around the board,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On every mantle is the long black cross,—These</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are the brethren, and behind them stand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The young esquires to serve them, in a ring.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Konrad sat at the top; upon his left</div> +<div id="n_8" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The place was Witold’s,<a href="#note_8" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">8</span></a> with his leaders brave,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One time their foe, to-day the Order’s guest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Leagued against Litwa as their firm ally.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Master, rising, gives the festal word,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Rejoice we in the Lord!”</span> The goblets gleamed.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page34">[pg 34]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Rejoice we in the Lord!”</span> cried thousand voices.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The silver shone, the wine poured forth in streams.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Silent sat Wallenrod, upon his elbow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Leaning, and heard with scorn the unseemly +noise.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The uproar ceased; scarcely low-spoken jests</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alternate here and there the cup’s light clash.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let us rejoice,”</span> he says. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“How now, my +brethren!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beseems it valiant knights to thus rejoice?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One time a drunken clamour, now low murmurs?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Must we then feast like bandits or like monks?</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“There were far other customs in my time,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When on the battlefield with corpses piled,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On Castile’s mountains or in Finland’s woods,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We drank beside the camp-fire.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Those were songs!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is there no bard, no minstrel in the crowd?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wine maketh glad indeed the heart of man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">But song it is that forms the spirit’s wine.”</span></div> +</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page35">[pg 35]</span> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then various singers all at once arose;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A fat Italian here, with birdlike tones,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sings Konrad’s valour and great piety;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And there a troubadour from the Garonne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The stories of enamoured shepherds sings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of maids enchanted and of wandering knights.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wallenrod slept;—meanwhile the songs are o’er.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Awakened sudden by the loss of sound,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He to the Italian cast a purse of gold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“To me alone,”</span> he said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“thou didst sing praise.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Another may not give thee recompense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Take and depart. Let that young troubadour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who serveth youth and beauty, pardon us</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That in the knightly throng we have no damsel,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To fasten a vain rosebud to his breast</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The roses here are faded. I would have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Another bard,—the cloister knight desires</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Another song; but be it wild and harsh,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like to the voice of horns, the clash of swords.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And be it gloomy as the cloister walls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And fiery as a solitary drunkard.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Of us, who sanctify and murder men,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let song of murderous tone proclaim the saintship,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page36">[pg 36]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And melt our heart, and rouse to rage,—and +weary;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And let it then again affright the weary.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Such is our life, and such our song should be;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Who then will sing it?”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I,”</span> replied an old</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And venerable man, who near the door</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sat ’mid the squires and pages, by his robe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Prussian or Litwin. Thick his beard, by age</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whitened; the last grey hairs wave on his head;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His brow and eyes are covered by a veil;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sufferings and years are graven on his face.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He bore in his right hand a Prussian lute,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But towards the table stretched his left hand +forth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And by this sign entreated audience.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All then were silent.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 6.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I will sing,”</span> he cried.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Once sang I to the Prussians and to Litwa;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some now have perished in their land’s defence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Others will not outlive their country’s loss,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But rather slay themselves upon her corse;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As servants true, in good and evil lot,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Will perish on their benefactor’s pile.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page37">[pg 37]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Others more shamefully in forests hide;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Others, like Witold, dwell among you here.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“But after death?—Germans! ye know full well.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ask of the wicked traitors to their land</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What, they shall do when, in that further world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Condemned to burning of eternal fires,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They would their ancestors invoke from paradise?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What language shall entreat them for their aid?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If in their German, their barbaric speech,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The forefathers will know their children’s voice.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“O children! what a foul disgrace for Litwa,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That none of you, aye, none, defended me,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When from the shrine, the hoary Wajdelote,<a id="noteref_4" name="noteref_4" href="#note_4"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">4</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Away they dragged me into German chains!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alone in foreign lands have I grown old.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A singer!—alas! to no one can I sing!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On Litwa looking, I wept out mine eyes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day, if I would sigh towards my home,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I know not where that home beloved lies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If here, or there, or in another place.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Here only, in my heart, have I preserved</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That in my Fatherland my best possession;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page38">[pg 38]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And these poor remnants of my former treasure</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You Germans take from me,—take memory from +me!</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“As a defeated knight in tournament</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Escapes with life though honour has been lost;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And, dragging out despisèd days in scorn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Returns once more unto his conqueror;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And for the last time straining forth his arm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Breaketh his sword beneath the victor’s feet,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So my last failing courage me inspires;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yet once more to the lute my hand is bold;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let the last Wajdelote of Litwa sing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Litwa’s last song!”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em">He ended, and awaited</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Master’s answer. All in silence deep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Await. With mockery and with curious eye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Konrad tracks Witold’s every look and motion.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They noted all how when the Wajdelote</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of traitors spoke, a change o’er Witold came.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Livid he grew and pale again he blushed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alike tormented by his rage and shame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At last, his sabre casting from his side,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He goes, dividing all the astonished crowd.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page39">[pg 39]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He looked upon the old man, stayed his steps;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The clouds of anger hanging o’er his brow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fell sudden in a rapid flood of tears;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He turned, sat down, with cloak he veiled his face,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And into secret meditation plunged</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Germans whispered, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Shall we to our feasts</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Admit old beggars? Who will hear the song,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And who will understand?”</span> Such voices were</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Among the crowd of revellers, and broken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By constant peals of ever-growing laughter.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The pages cry, whistling on nuts, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Behold!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">This is the tune of the Litvanian song.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon that Konrad rose. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ye valiant knights!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day the Order, by a solemn custom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Receiveth gifts from princes and from towns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As homage from a conquered country due.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The beggar brings a song as offering</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To you: forbid we not the old man’s homage.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Take we the song; ’twill be the widow’s mite.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Among us we behold the Litwin prince;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His captains are the Order’s guests: to him</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sweet will it be to list the memory</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page40">[pg 40]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of ancient deeds, recalled in native speech.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who understands not, let him go from hence.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I love betimes to hear the gloomy groans</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of those Litvanian songs, not understood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even as I love the noise of warring waves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or the soft murmur of the rain in spring;—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Sweetly they charm to sleep. Sing, ancient bard!”</span></div> +</div> +<p id="n_9" class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Song of the Wajdelote.</span><a href="#note_9" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; vertical-align: super">9</span></a></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When over Litwa cometh plague and death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The bard’s prophetic eye beholds, afraid.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If to the Wajdelote’s word be given faith,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On desert plains and churchyards, sayeth fame,</div> +<div id="n_10" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stands visibly the pestilential maid,<a href="#note_10" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">10</span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In white, upon her brow a wreath of flame,—</div> +<div id="n_11" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her brow the trees of Bialowiez<a href="#note_11" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">11</span></a> outbraves,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in her hand a blood-stained cloth she waves.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The castle guards in terror veil their eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The peasants’ dogs, deep burrowing in the ground,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scent death approaching, howl with fearful cries</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The maid’s ill-boding step, o’er all is found;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O’er hamlets, castles, and rich towns she goes.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page41">[pg 41]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Oft as she waves the bloody cloth, no less</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A palace changes to a wilderness;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where treads her foot a recent grave up-grows.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O <span class="tei tei-corr" style="text-align: left">woeful</span> sight! But yet a heavier doom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Foretold to Litwa from the German side,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The shining helmet with the ostrich plume,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And the wide mantle with the black cross dyed.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For where that spectre’s fearful step has passed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nought is a hamlet’s ruin or a town,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But a whole country to the grave is cast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O thou to whom is Litwa’s spirit dear!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Come, on the graves of nations sit we down;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We’ll meditate, and sing, and shed the tear.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O native song! between the elder day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ark of the Covenant, and younger times,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wherein their heroes’ swords the people lay,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their flowers of thought and web of native rhymes.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou ark! no stroke can break thee or subdue,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While thine own people hold thee not debased.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O native song! thou art as guardian placed,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page42">[pg 42]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Defending memories of a nation’s word.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Archangel’s wings are thine, his voice thine too,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And often wieldest thou Archangel’s sword.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The flame devoureth story’s pictured words,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thieves with steel wide scatter treasure +hoards.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But scatheless is the song the poet sings.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And should vile spirits still refuse to give</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sorrow and hope, whereby the song may live,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upward she flieth and to ruins clings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thence relateth ancient histories.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The nightingale from burning dwellings flits,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But on the roof, a moment yet she sits;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When falls the roof she to the forest flies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And from her laden breast o’er dying embers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sings a low dirge the passer-by remembers.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I heard the song! An ancient peasant swain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When over bones his iron ploughshare rang,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stood, and on flute of willow played a strain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Prayers for the dead, or, with a rhymed lament,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of you, great childless fathers, then he sang.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The echoes answered. I from far did hear,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page43">[pg 43]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And sorrow brought the sight and song more near;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In eyes and ears my spirit all was bent.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As on the judgment-day the dead past all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Archangel’s trumpet from the tomb shall call,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So from the song the dead bones upward grew</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To giant forms, from sleep of death awake,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pillars and arches from their ruin anew,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And countless oars splashed in the desert lake;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And soon the castle-gates wide open seemed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And princes’ crowns and warriors’ armour gleamed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now sing the bards, the dance the maidens weave;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I dreamed of marvels,—and awoke to grieve.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forests and native hills are vanished,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thought doth fail, on weary pinions fled,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And sinketh in a hidden stillness drear.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The lute is silent in my stiffened hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And ’mid the groan of comrades of my land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The voices of the past I may not hear.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Still something of that youthful fire once mine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Smoulders within me, and at times its light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wakens the soul and maketh memory bright.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then memory, like a lamp of crystalline,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The pencil has with painted colours decked,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page44">[pg 44]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Although by dust bedimmed, with scars beflecked;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Place but within its heart a little light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With freshness of its colours eyes are lured,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On palace walls yet gleaming fair and bright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lovely, though yet with dusty cloud obscured.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O could I but this fire of mine impart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To all my hearers’ breasts, the shapes upraise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of those dead times, and reach the very heart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of all my brothers with my burning lays!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But haply even in this passing hour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now when their native song their hearts can move,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The pulses of those hearts may beat more strong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their souls may feel the ancient pride and love;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And live one moment in such noble power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As lived their forefathers their whole life long.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But why invoke the ages long gone by,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And for the present’s glory find no voice?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For in your midst a great man liveth nigh—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I sing of him. Ye, Litwini, rejoice!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Silent the old man was, and hearkened round,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If still the Germans will permit his song.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Around the hall there reigned a silence deep;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page45">[pg 45]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This warms all poets to a newer zeal.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Once more he raised his song, but other theme;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O’er freer cadences his voice did range.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">More rarely he, and lighter, touched the strings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Descending from the hymn to simple story.</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Wajdelote’s Tale.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whence come the Litwins? From a nightly sally;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From church and castle they have won rich spoils,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And crowds of German slaves with fettered hands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ropes on their necks, follow the victors’ steeds.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They look towards Prussia and dissolve in tears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On Kowno look, commend their souls to God.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In midst of Kowno stretches Perun’s plain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Litwin princes, there returned from conquest,</div> +<div id="n_12" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.<a href="#note_12" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">12</span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Two captive knights untroubled ride to Kowno,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One fair and young, the other bowed with years.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They in the battle left the German troops,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fled to the Litwins. Kiejstut did receive them,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But led them to the castle under guard.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He asks their race, with what intent they come.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I know not,”</span> said the youth, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“my race or name;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In childhood was I made the Germans’ captive.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page46">[pg 46]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I recollect alone, somewhere in Litwa,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Amid a great town stood my father’s house.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was a wooden town on lofty hills,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The house was of red brick. Around the hills</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Murmured a wood of fir-trees on the plains;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Among the woods a white lake gleamed afar.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One night a shout aroused us from our sleep;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A fiery day dawned in the window, shook</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The window-panes, and whirling wreaths of smoke</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Burst forth within the house. We to the door.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Flames curled through all the streets, sparks fell +like hail.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A horrid cry arose, ‘To arms! the Germans</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Are in the town! to arms!’ My father rushed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forth with his sword,—rushed forth—returned no +more!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Germans poured into the house. One seized +me</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And caught me to his saddle. What came further</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I know not; but long, long my mother’s shrieks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I heard ’mid clash of swords, ’mid fall of houses.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This cry long followed me, stayed in my ear;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even now when I view flames and falling houses,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This cry wakes in my soul as echo wakes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In caverns after thunder’s voice. Behold</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page47">[pg 47]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My memories all of Litwa and my parents.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sometimes in dreams I view the honoured forms</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of mother, father, brethren; but anew</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some cloud mysterious veils their features o’er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thicker and darker growing evermore.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The years of childhood passed away. I lived</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A German among Germans, and they gave me</div> +<div id="n_13" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The name of Walter,<a href="#note_13" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="vertical-align: super">13</span></a> Alf thereto as surname.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">German the name, my soul remained Litvanian;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Grief for my parents, for the strangers hatred</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Remained. The Master Winrych in his palace</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Reared me, himself did hold me to the font,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Loved and caressed me as his very son.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But weary in his palace, from his knees</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I fled unto the Wajdelote. That time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Among the Germans was a Litwin bard,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Captive for many years,—interpreter,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He served the army. When he heard of me</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That I was orphan and Litvanian,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He told of Litwa, cheered my longing soul</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With his caresses, song, and with the sound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of the Litvanian speech. He often led me</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To the grey Niemen’s shores; from thence I +joyed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To look upon my country’s well-loved mountains.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page48">[pg 48]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And when unto the castle we returned,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He dried my tears to waken no suspicion:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He dried my tears, but kindled in me vengeance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Against the Germans. I remember well</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How, when we came again into the castle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I sharpened secretly a knife, with what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Delight of vengeance cut I Winrych’s carpets,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or broke his mirrors, on his shining shield</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Flung sand, or spit upon it. Later on,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When grown near manhood, from Klajpedo’s port</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I sailed with the old man to view the shores</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of Litwa. There I plucked my country’s flowers;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their magic fragrance woke within my soul</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some ancient, dark remembrance. With the fragrance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Intoxicated, seemed me that a child</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Once more I grew, and in my parents’ garden,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Played with my little brothers. The old man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Assisted memory with his words, more lovely</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Than herbs and flowers,—painted the happy past,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How sweet in native land ’mid friends and kin</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To pass one’s youth, how many Litwin children</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Knew not such bliss, in the Order’s fetters weeping.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I heard this on the plains, but on the beach,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where the white billows break with roaring breasts,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page49">[pg 49]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And from their foamy throat cast streams of sand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">‘Thou seest,’ the old man then was used to say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">‘The grassy carpet of this seaboard meadow.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sand blows over it. These fragrant herbs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou seest, would pierce the deadly covering,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By their brow’s strength. In vain, alas! for now</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Another hydra comes of gravel-dust,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spreads its white fins, subdues the living lands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stretching its kingdom of wild desert round.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My son! the gifts of spring are living cast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Into the grave. Behold! they are conquered +peoples,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our brothers the Litwini! Son, this sand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Storm-driven from the sea, it is the Order.’</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My heart did pain me hearing, and I longed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To murder all Crusaders, or to fly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To Litwa; but the old man checked my zeal.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">‘To free knights,’ said he, ‘it is free to choose’</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their weapon, and with equal strength to fight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in open field. Thou art a slave; the only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Weapon that slaves may use is treachery.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Remain awhile and learn the Germans’ war-craft;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Try thou to gain their confidence; we later</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shall see what thing to do.’ I was obedient</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unto the old man’s words—went with the Germans.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page50">[pg 50]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But in the first fight, scarce I viewed the standards,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scarce did I hear my, nation’s songs of war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I sprang unto our own,—led the old man with me.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As the young falcon, severed from his nest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And nourished in a cage, although the fowlers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By cruel torments strip him of his reason,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And send him forth to war on brother-falcons;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soon as he rises ’mid the clouds, soon as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His eyes o’erstretch the far unmeasured plains</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of his blue Fatherland, he breathes free air,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And hears the rustle of his wings.—Return</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unto thy home, O fowler! do not wait</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">To see the falcon in his narrow cage.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The youth made end; with wonder Kiejstut heard,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And listened also Kiejstut’s daughter fair,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aldona, young and lovely as a goddess.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The autumn passes, therewith evenings lengthen;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Kiejstut’s daughter, as accustomed, sits</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Among her sisters and her comrades’ train,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Weaves at the loom or spins the distaff thread;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But as the needles fly or spindles turn,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Walter stands by and telleth wondrous tales,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">About the German countries and his youth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The damsel seizes all that Walter speaks,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her soul, insatiable, devours all things;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page51">[pg 51]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She knows them all by heart, repeats in dreams.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Walter related of the castle halls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Great towns beyond the Niemen, what rich dresses,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What splendid pastimes; how in tourney knights</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Break lances, and the damsels look upon them</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Down from their galleries, and adjudge the prize.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He spoke of the great God who rules beyond</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Niemen, and His Son’s Immaculate Mother,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whose angel form he showed in wondrous picture.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This picture piously adorned his breast;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The youth now gave it to the fair Litwinka,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The day he brought her to the holy faith,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When he prayed with her;—he would teach her all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He knew himself. Alas! he taught her too</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That which as yet he knew not,—taught her love.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And he himself learned much. With what delight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He from her lips the half-forgotten words</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heard of Litvanian speech. New feelings rose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With each new-risen word like sparks from ashes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sweet were the names of family, of friendship,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And sweeter yet than all the name of love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Which no word equals here on earth, but—country.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whence,”</span> Kiejstut thought, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“my daughters +sudden change?</span></div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page52">[pg 52]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where is her former mirth, her childish sports?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On holidays all maidens join in dance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She sits alone, or converse holds with Walter.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On other days the needle or the loom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Engage the damsels; from her hands the needle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Falls, and the threads are tangled in the loom.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She sees not what she does; all tell me so.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And yesterday, I marked she sewed a rose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The flowers with green, the leaves with rosy silk.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How could she know this, when her eyes and +thoughts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Seek only Walter’s eyes, seek his discourse?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Oft as I ask, ‘Where goes she?’ ‘To the valley.’</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">‘Whence comes she?’ ‘From the valley.’ +‘What is there?’</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">‘The youth has made in it a garden for her.’</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What! is that garden fairer than my orchards?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">(For Kiejstut owned proud orchards full of apples</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And pears, allurement of the Kowno damsels.)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Tis not the garden lures her. I have marked</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her windows in the winter; all the panes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Which look on Niemen clear are as in May;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The frost has not obscured the crystal glass.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thence Walter comes. She sat beside the window,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And with her burning sighs did melt the ice.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page53">[pg 53]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I thought, he teaches her to read and write,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hearing all princes now instruct their children,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A good lad, valiant, skilled like priest in books.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shall I expel him from my house? He is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So needful to our Litwa; he can rank</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The troops as can no other; rampart mounds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He best can heap; the thunder-arms direct.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have one behind my army.—Walter, come,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And be my son-in-law, and fight for Litwa.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So Walter wed Aldona. Germans! you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No doubt will think this is the story’s end;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For in your love romances when the knights</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Are married, then the minstrel ends his song,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And only adds, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“They lived long and were happy.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Well Walter loved his wife; his noble soul</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yet found no happiness in heart or home,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For in the country was there blessing none.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The snows scarce vanished, scarce the first lark +sung;—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The lark to other lands sings love and joy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But unto hapless Litwa he proclaims</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With every year carnage and fire;—on march</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Crusading armies in unnumbered crowds.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now from the hills beyond the Niemen echo</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page54">[pg 54]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To Kowno bears a mighty army’s shouts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The clang of armour and the neigh of steeds.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like mist the camp descends, o’erflows the plain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And here and there the leaders’ standards gleam</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like lightning ere the storm. The Germans stood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon the shore, threw bridges o’er the Niemen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And day by day the walls and bastions fall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With shock of battering-ram, and night by night</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The storming mines work underground like moles;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beneath the heavens the bomb in fiery flight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rises, and swoops upon the city roofs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As falls the falcon on the lesser fowl.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Kowno is fallen in ruins. Then the Litwin</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Retires to Kiejdan; Kiejdan falls in ruin.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then Litwa makes defence in woods and hills;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Germans march on farther, robbing, burning;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Kiejstut and Walter first in battle, last</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Retreating. Kiejstut was untroubled still,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From childhood used to combat with his foe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To attack, to conquer, or to fly. He knew</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His forefathers warred ever with the Germans;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He, following in their footsteps, ever fought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And cared not for the future. Other were</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The thoughts of Walter. Nurtured ’mid the Germans,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page55">[pg 55]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He knew the Order’s power; the Master’s summons,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He knew, could draw forth armies, treasures, swords,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From all of Europe. Prussia made defence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In former times the Teutons broke the Prussians;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sooner or later Litwa meets such fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He had seen the Prussians’ misery; he trembled</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To think of Litwa’s future. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Son,”</span> cries Kiejstut,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou art an evil prophet; thou hast reft</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The veil before my eyes, to show the abyss.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While hearing thee, it seemed my hands grew weak,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With victory’s hope all courage left my breast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">How shall we with the German power contend?”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Father,”</span> said Walter, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“one sole way I know,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A dreadful way, alas! effectual!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Some day I may reveal it.”</span> Thus did they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Converse, the battle over, ere the trumpet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Did summon to fresh battles and defeats.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Kiejstut grew ever sadder, and how changed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Seemed Walter; never over-merry he.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even in happy moments some light shade</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of thought o’erhung his brow, but with Aldona</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Serene was once his brow and visage tranquil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aye welcoming her with smiles, with tender glance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bidding farewell to her. Now, as it seemed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He was tormented by some hidden pain.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page56">[pg 56]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By morn, before the house, wringing his hands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He looked upon the smoke of towns and hamlets,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Burning far off; there gazed he with wild eyes.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By night he started out of sleep, and looked</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forth from the window on the blood-red blaze.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Husband, what ails thee?”</span> asks with tears Aldona.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“What ails me? Shall I peaceful sleep till Germans</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Shall give me sleeping, bound, to hangman’s +hands?”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“O husband! Heaven forbid! The sentries guard</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Full well the trenches.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“True the sentries guard +them.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I watch and grasp the sabre in my hand.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But when the sentries die the sword is broken.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">List, if I live to old age, wretched age——”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“But Heaven will give us comfort in our children.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The Germans will fall on us, slay the wife,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The children tear away, and lead them far,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Teach them to loose the arrow on their father.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Myself my father, brothers, might have slain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Unless the Wajdelote——”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Dear Walter! go we</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Farther in Litwa; hide we from the Germans</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">In mountains and in forests.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Aye, we go,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And other mothers, children leave behind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus fled the Prussians; Germans overtook them</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page57">[pg 57]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">In Litwa. If they trace us in the mountains——”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let us again go farther.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Farther? farther?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unhappy one! shall we go far from Litwa,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Into the Tartar’s or the Rusin’s hands?”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hushed was Aldona, troubled at this answer,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For hitherto it had to her appeared</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her Fatherland were long as is the world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wide without end; and now for the first time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She heard there was no refuge in all Litwa.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wringing her hands she asked, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“What may be +done?”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“One way, Aldona, one remains to Litwa</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To break the Order’s power: that way I know;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But ask it not for God’s sake. Hundred times</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Be cursed that hour in which, constrained by foes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">I seize these means.”</span> No farther would he say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heard not Aldona’s prayers, but only heard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And saw before him Litwa’s misery.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At last the flame of vengeance, nursed in silence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By sight of suffering and defeat, increased,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And did surround his heart, consumed all feelings—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One feeling even, hitherto life-sweetening,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Feeling of love. So when the hunters light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A hidden fire ’neath oaks of Bialowiez,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It burns away the inner pith; the monarch</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page58">[pg 58]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of the forest loses all his waving leaves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His branches fly off, even that green crown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That once adorned his brow, the mistletoe,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dries up and withers.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Long the Litwini</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wandered through castles, mountains, and through +woods,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Germans harrying or by them attacked,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Till fought the dreadful fight on Rudaw’s plains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where many thousand Litwin youth lay slaughtered,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beside as many of the Teuton host</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soon reinforcements from beyond the sea</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Came to the Germans. Kiejstut then and Walter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ascended with a handful to the mountains.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With broken sabres and with dinted shields,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Covered with dust and clotted gore, they went</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Gloomy towards home. There Walter neither +looked</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon his wife, nor spoke to her one word;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But in the German tongue held he discourse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With Kiejstut and the Wajdelote. Aldona</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nought understood, but yet her heart forebode</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some dire event When ended was their council,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All three turned sorrowing glances on Aldona.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Walter looked longest, with despair’s mute gaze;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page59">[pg 59]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thick-falling teardrops trickled from his eyes;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He fell before Aldona’s feet and pressed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her hands unto his heart, and pardon begged</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For all the things that she had suffered of him.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Woe!”</span> cried he, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“unto women loving madmen,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whose hearts domestic happiness contents not.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Great hearts, Aldona, are like hives too large;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Honey can fill them not, and they become</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The lizard’s nest. Forgive me, dear Aldona!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day I would remain at home, to-day</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forget all things; be we for each to-day</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">What once we used to be. To-morrow——”</span> But</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He could not finish. What joy then Aldona’s!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She thought, unhappy, Walter would be changed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That he would live in peace and joyousness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Less thoughtful did she see him, in his eyes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">More life; she saw new colour in his cheeks;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And all that evening at Aldona’s feet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spent Walter. Litwa, Teutons, and the war</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He cast awhile into forgetfulness;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Talked of those happy times when first he came</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To Litwa, his first converse with Aldona,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The first walk to the valley, and of all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Those childish things, but memorable to the heart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of that first love. Wherefore such sweet discourse</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page60">[pg 60]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Must he break off with that sad word—to-morrow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And plunge in thought, look long upon his wife?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tears circle in his eyes. Would he then speak,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But dares not? Did he but invoke the feelings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The memories of ancient happiness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Only to bid farewell to them? Shall all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This evening’s converse, all its sweet caresses,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Be but the last, last flickerings of love’s torch?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Tis vain to ask. Aldona looks and waits,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Uncertain. Passing from the room, she gazed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Still through the crannies. Walter poured out wine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And emptied many cups, and near him kept</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The hoary Wajdelote through all the night.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scarce risen had the sun when hoofs were clattering;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Up with the morning mists two riders haste;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The guards all missed them; one eye could not miss.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A lover’s eyes are vigilant. Aldona</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Had guessed their flight; she rushed into the valley.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sad was that meeting. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“O my love, return!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Return thou home—return! Thou must be happy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Blest in embraces of thy family.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou art young and fair; comfort will soon be thine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forget me. Many princes formerly</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page61">[pg 61]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Contended for thy hand. And thou art free,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Being as widow left of a great man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who for his country’s weal renounced ev’n thee!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Farewell! forget; but weep for me at times;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For Walter loses all; he doth remain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lone as the lone wind in the wilderness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And he must wander over all the world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To plunder, murder, and at last to perish</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By shameful death. But after vanished years</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The name of Alf again shall sound in Litwa,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And from the Wajdelote’s lips thou shalt again</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hear of his deeds. Then, loved one, think thou +then,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This dreadful knight, with cloud of mystery veiled,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is known to thee alone,—was once thy husband;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And be thy pride thy desolation’s comfort.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Silent Aldona did assent, although</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She heard no word. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou goest! thou goest!”</span> +she cried,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And her own anguish wrought with her own words.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou goest!”</span> this one word sounded in her ear.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She framed no thought, nothing recalled; her +thoughts,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her memories, her future, tangled all;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But guessed her heart she never could return,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page62">[pg 62]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nor e’er forget. Her eyes all wandering roved,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And many times met Walter’s wildered look,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wherein she might not find the ancient joy;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She seemed to seek for something new around,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And looked once more. ’Twas forest wilderness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beyond the Niemen ’mid the forests gleamed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A turret height; a convent ’twas of nuns,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sad dwelling of the Christians. On this tower</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rested Aldona’s eyes and thoughts; the dove</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Seized by the wind amidst a raging sea,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus falls upon an unknown vessel’s mast.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Walter understood Aldona. Silent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He followed her, and told her his design,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Commanding secrecy before the world.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And at the doors—ah! fearful was that parting!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alf rode off with the Wajdelote. Till now</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nought has been heard of them. But woe to him</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If he fulfil not hitherto his vows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If, having all his bliss renounced and poisoned</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aldona’s happiness, and sacrificed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So much, he still have sacrificed in vain!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The future shows the rest. I have ended, Germans.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This is the end?—great murmur in the hall.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Who is this Walter, and what are his deeds?</span></div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page63">[pg 63]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Where? vengeance upon whom?”</span> the hearers cried.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Master only, ’mid the murmuring crowd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In silence sat with head bent down. He seemed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As deeply moved; each instant snatches cups</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of wine, and to the very bottom drains.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon him came a change of somewhat new,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Many emotions break in sudden lightnings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And circle o’er his burning countenance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His pale lips quiver, and his wandering eyes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fly round like swallows in the midst of storm.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At last he cast his mantle off, and sprang</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Into the midst. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Where is the story’s end?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sing me at once the end or give the lute.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Why stand’st thou trembling? Give the lute to me.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fill up the goblets; I will sing the end</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If thou dost fear to sing it.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I know ye. Every song the Wajdelote sings</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Portendeth woe, as howls of dogs at night.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Murders and burnings ye delight to sing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ye leave to us—glory and sorrowing.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yet in the cradle doth your traitorous song</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Circle the infant’s breast in reptile form,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And cruellest poison sheds into the soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Foolish desire of praise and patriot love.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page64">[pg 64]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“She follows hard the footsteps of a youth</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like shade of slaughtered foe, sometimes reveals</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Herself in midst of banquets, mixing blood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In cups of joy. I have heard the song—too well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alas! Tis done, ’tis done! I know thee, traitor!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou winnest! War! what triumph for a poet!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Give to me wine; now my designs are working.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I know the song’s end. No! I’ll sing another.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When on the mountains of Castile I fought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There the Moors taught me ballads. Old man! play</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That melody, that childish melody,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Which in the valley,—’twas a blessed time;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unto that music did I ever sing.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Return at once, old man, for by all gods,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">German or Prussian——”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em">The old man must return.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He struck the lute, and with uncertain voice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Followed the savage tones of Konrad, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A slave may walk behind his angry lord.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Meanwhile the lights went out upon the table.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The knights had slumbered at the lengthy banquet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But Konrad sings, and they awake again.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They stand, and, in a narrow circle pressed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Attentive marked the ballad’s every word.</div> +</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page65">[pg 65]</span> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">BALLAD.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">ALPUJARA.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ruined lie the Moorish cities,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Still the Moors upraise the sword;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the country still resisting,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Reigns the pestilence as lord.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And the towers of Alpujara</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Brave Almanzor still defends:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Floats below the Spaniard’s banner,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Siege to-morrow he intends.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Roar the guns at sunrise loudly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Ramparts break, and crumble walls;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From the towers the cross gleams proudly,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Now the Spaniard owns these halls.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sad Almanzor views his warriors</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Slain in battle desperate;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hews his way through swords and lances,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Flieth Spain’s pursuing hate.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now the Spaniards in the fortress,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">’Mid the stones and corpses there,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hold the feast and drain the wine-cup,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">And the spoils and captives share.</div> +</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page66">[pg 66]</span> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soon the guard.without announces</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">That a stranger knight doth wait,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Craving for a swift admittance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Bringing tidings of great weight</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Twas the vanquished Moor Almanzor.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Swift his mantle off was thrown;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To the Spaniards he surrenders,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">And he craves for life alone.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am come, ye Christian warriors,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">To submit me to your power;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I will serve the God of Christians,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Own your prophet from this hour,</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let the blast of fame, world-filling,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Say, the Arab chief o’erthrown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Would be brother to his victors,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Vassal of a stranger’s crown.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Well the Spaniard prizes valour.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">So the great Almanzor knowing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They embraced him, circled round him,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">As their true companion showing.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each one then Almanzor greeted,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">And their captain close embraced:</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page67">[pg 67]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hung upon his neck, and kissed him;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Such true love their friendship graced.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All at once his strength grew feebler,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">And he fell upon the ground;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But he drew the Spaniard with him,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">To his feet the turban bound.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All with wonder looked upon him,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">And his livid visage scan;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Horrid smiles deformed his features,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">And with blood his eyes o’erran.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christian dogs,”</span> he cries, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“look on me,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">If you understand this thing;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I deceived you, from Granada</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Come I, and the plague I bring.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“For my kiss breathed venom in ye,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">And the plague shall lay you low;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Come and look upon my tortures—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Ye such death must undergo.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wide he cast his eyes around him,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">As he would eternally</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Chain all Spaniards to his bosom;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">And a horrid laugh laughed he.</div> +</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page68">[pg 68]</span> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Laughed, and died; his eyes yet open,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Open yet his lips remained:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In that hellish smile for ever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Those cold features still were strained.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fled the Spaniards from the city.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">But the plague their steps pursuing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ere they left doomed Alpujara,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.00em">Was that gallant host’s undoing.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thus years ago the Moors avenged themselves;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Would you the vengeance of the Litwin know?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What if some day it issue forth in words,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And come to mingle poison in the wine?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But no! ah, no! to-day are other customs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Prince Witold; for to-day the Litwin lords</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Come to deliver us their native land,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And seek for vengeance on their harassed people.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“But yet, indeed, not all—oh! no, by Perun!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There are in Litwa yet—I’ll sing yet to you!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Away from me that lute—a string is broken.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No song will be—but I do trust indeed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One time there will be. This day, o’er filled cups,—</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page69">[pg 69]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have drunk too much—rejoice yourselves and +play!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thou Al—manzor, leave my sight, old man!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Away with Halban—leave me here alone.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He said, and turning by uncertain way,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He found his place, and sank into his chair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Still threatening somewhat, stamping with his foot,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O’erturned the table with the wine and cups.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At last grown weaker, he inclined his head</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon the chair-arm; soon his glance was quenched;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His quivering lips were covered o’er with foam.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He slept.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The knights awhile in fixed amazement stood:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They knew full well Konrad’s unhappy custom;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How, when inflamed unto excess with wine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Into wild transports and forgetfulness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He falls; but at a banquet, public shame!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Before the strangers, in such unheard rage!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who thus inflamed him? Where that Wajdelote?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He vanished privately, none know of him.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stories there were that Halban thus disguised</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To Konrad that Litvanian song had sung,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page70">[pg 70]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To kindle by this means the zeal of Christians</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To battle against heathenesse; but whence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A change so sudden in the Master? Wherefore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Did Witold show such angry wrath? What means</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Master’s strange, wild ballad? With conjectures,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each vainly tries to track the hidden secret.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page71">[pg 71]</span> +<a name="toc16" id="toc16"></a> +<a name="pdf17" id="pdf17"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">V.</span></h1> +<h1 id="n_14" class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">War.</span><a href="#note_14" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 173%; vertical-align: super">14</span></a></h1> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">War now. For Konrad may no longer curb</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The people’s zeal, the council’s fierce insistance:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The whole land calls for vengeance long delayed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For Litwa’s inroad, and for Witold’s treason.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Witold, once suitor for the Order’s grace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To aid recovery of his capital,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">After the banquet, on this new report</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That the Crusading hosts will take the field,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Changed measures—traitor to his recent friendship,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And led his knights in secrecy away.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in the Teuton castles on the road</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He entered, by the Master’s forged commands;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And then disarming all the garrison,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Annihilated all with fire and sword.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Order, roused with burning rage and shame,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Against the heathens stirred up fierce Crusade;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Pope sends forth a bull,—seas, land, o’erflow</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page72">[pg 72]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At once with swarms of warriors numberless,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Princes with mighty following of vassals;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Red Cross decks their armour. Each his life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Devotes to christen pagans,—or to die.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They went towards Litwa. What their actions +there?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If thou wouldst know, gaze from the ramparts' +heights,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Look towards Litwa, as the day declines.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou see’st a fiery blaze; the vault of heaven</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O’er-deluged with a stream of bloody flame;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Behold the annals of invading war.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Few words relate their carnage, plunder, fire,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And blaze, which may rejoice the foolish crowd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But in it wise men do with fear confess,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A voice that crieth for revenge to Heaven.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The winds blew on that dreadful fire apace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The knights marched further to the heart of Litwa.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Report says Kowno, Wilna, are besieged.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then ceased report, and couriers came no more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No longer in the region flames were seen,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But further off the heaven’s ruddy blaze.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In vain the Prussians look with eager hope,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page73">[pg 73]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For spoils and prisoners of the conquered land;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In vain despatch swift couriers for the news,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The couriers hasten—and return no more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As each this cruel doubt interpreteth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He willingly would know despair itself.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The autumn passed away. The winter’s snows</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Revelled upon the mountains, block the ways.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Once more upon the distant heaven shine—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Midnight auroras? or the fires of war?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And ever nearer comes the light of flames,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And nearer yet the heaven’s ruddy blaze.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From Marienbourg the folk look on the road;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They see afar—grovelling through deepest snows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some travellers!—Konrad! And our generals!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How welcome them? Victors? or fugitive?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where are the others? Konrad raised his hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And pointed further off a scattered crowd,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alas! their very aspect told the secret!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They rush in disarray, plunge in the snowdrifts;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Roll each on each, down treading like vile insects,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Within a narrow vessel perishing;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They push o’er corpses, ever newer crowds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hurl those new risen down again to earth.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page74">[pg 74]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some drag still onward chilled and stiffened limbs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some on the march have frozen to the road;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But with raised hands the corpses standing point</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Straight to the town, like pillars on the way.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The townsfolk, terror-stricken, curious ran,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fearing to guess the truth they dared not ask;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For all the story of that luckless war</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They in the warriors’ eyes and faces read</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For o’er their eyes hung death in frosty shape,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Famine’s harpy hollowed out their cheeks.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now are the trumpets of the Litwin heard,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now rolls the storm, snow whirlwinds o’er the +plain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Far off a multitude of gaunt dogs howls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And overhead the ravens hover round.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All perished! Konrad has destroyed them all!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He, that once reaped such glory with the sword,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He, for his prudence formerly renowned,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Timid and careless in this latter war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Marked not the cunning snares that Witold laid;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Deceived and blinded by the wish of vengeance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Driving his army on the Litwin steppes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wilna thus long in sluggard guise besieged.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page75">[pg 75]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When plunder and provisions were consumed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When hunger came upon the German camp,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And scattered all around, the enemy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Destroyed the auxiliars, cut off all supplies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each day a myriad Germans died from need.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now time approached to end by storm the war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or else bethink them of a swift return.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then Wallenrod, in peace and confidence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rode to the chase, or, closed within his tent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forged secret treaties, and denied his captains</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Admission to the councils of the war.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thus in warlike fervour grew he cold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That by his people’s tears untouched, unmoved,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He deigned not raise the sword in their defence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All day with folded arms upon his breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In thought remaining, or discourse with Halban.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Meanwhile the winter piled its heaps of snow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Witold, with his fresh recruited bands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Besieged the army, fell upon the camp.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Oh! shame in annals of the valiant Order!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Master first did fly the battle-field!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In place of laurels, and abundant spoil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He brought the news of Litwa’s victories!</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page76">[pg 76]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Did ye but mark, when from that thunder stroke</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He led this host of spectres to their homes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What gloomy sadness darkened o’er his brow?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The worm of pain unwound him from his cheek,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Konrad suffered; but look on his eyes!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That large half-open eye, bright shining throws</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Its darts aslant, like comet threatening war;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each moment changing, like the gleams of night,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whereby the wily demon travellers lures.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Uniting joy and rabid rage in one,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It shone as with a right Satanic glance.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Trembled the folk and murmured. Konrad care +not.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He called to council the unwilling knights,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Looked on them, spoke, and beckoned. O disgrace!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They hear attentive, and believe his words.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They view Heaven’s judgments in the faults of man;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For whom of humankind persuades not—anguish.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tarry, proud ruler! Judgment waits even thee!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In Malborg is a dungeon underground.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There, when the night in darkness wraps the town,</div> +<div id="n_15" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The secret tribunal descends to council.<a href="#note_15" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">15</a></div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page77">[pg 77]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One single lamp upon the high-arched roof,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And day and night it burns mysteriously.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Twelve chairs, in circle placed around a throne,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon the throne the secret book of laws.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Twelve judges each in sable armour clad;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The visages of all inlocked by masks,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In dungeons hide them from the common crowd;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But each thus masked enshrouds him from his +fellows.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All sworn, of their own will, with one accord,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Crimes of their potent rulers to chastise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Too heinous, or unknown before the world.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And soon as falls on him the last decree,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not even a brother’s trespass to condone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each must by violent or by treasonous ways,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On him condemned fulfil the spoken doom;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dagger in hand, and rapier at their side.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One of the maskers now approached the throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And standing with drawn sword before the book,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Spoke thus: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Tremendous judges!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Proof now our long suspicion has confirmed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That man who calls him Konrad Wallenrod,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He is not Wallenrod.</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page78">[pg 78]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who is he? ’Tis unknown. Twelve years ago,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From unknown parts he to the Rhine-land came.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When passed Count Wallenrod to Palestine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He in the count’s train wore an esquire’s dress.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But soon Count Wallenrod, unknown, did perish.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And then his squire, suspected of his death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Departed secretly from Palestine;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Then did he land upon the Spanish shore;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In battles with the Moors gave proof of valour,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in the tourneys prizes rich obtained,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And everywhere gained fame as Wallenrod.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">He took on him at length the Order’s vows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">Was chosen Master, to the Order’s loss.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How ruled he, all ye know. This latter winter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When we with frost, famine, and Litwa fought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Konrad in woods and oak-groves rode alone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And there in secret held discourse with Witold.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Long time my spies have traced his every deed;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hidden at evening by the corner tower,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They understood not the discourse which Konrad</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Did hold with the recluse;—but, dreadful judges,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He spoke, they said, in the Litvanian tongue.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And weighing duly what the messengers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of our tribunal of this man reported,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And that intelligence my spy late brought,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page79">[pg 79]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And fame reporteth, scarcely secretly;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tremendous judges! I accuse the Master</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Of falsehood, murder, heresy, and treason.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here the accuser knelt before the book,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And laid his hand upon the crucifix;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And with an oath confirmed his story’s truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By God, and by the Saviour’s agony.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He ceased. The judges arbitrate the cause,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But not by open voice or still discourse;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scarce by a glance of eye, or sign of hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their deep and dreadful thought communicate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each in his turn approached him to the throne,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And with the dagger’s point o’erturned the leaves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of the Order’s book, and silent read the law,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Inquiring sentence of his conscience only.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And having judged, his hand lays on his heart,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And all in concord raised the cry of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Woe!”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With threefold echo then the walls repeated,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Woe!”</span>—In that word alone, that single word,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A sentence lies! The arraigners understood.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Twelve swords were raised aloft; one aim was +theirs—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Destined to Konrad’s heart. Then all departed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In gloomy silence, and the walls behind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Repeated with a fearful echo: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Woe!”</span></div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page80">[pg 80]</span> +<a name="toc18" id="toc18"></a> +<a name="pdf19" id="pdf19"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">VI</span></h1> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">The Parting.</span></h1> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">A wintry</span></span> dawn, with stormy wind and snow;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Through storm and snow-clouds hastens Wallenrod.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scarce stands he on the borders of the lake,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He calls aloud, striking the tower with sword.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Aldona,”</span> cries he, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“let us live, Aldona!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thy lover comes; his vows are all fulfilled,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">The foes have perished, all is now fulfilled.”</span></div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Recluse.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Alf! ’tis his voice indeed! My Alf, my love!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What! peace already! thou returnest safe?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Thou goest not forth again?”</span></div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Konrad.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“For love of God,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ask thou no tidings!—Listen, my beloved!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Listen, and weigh with carefulness each word,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page81">[pg 81]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The foes have perished. Dost thou see these fires?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou see’st? ’Tis Litwa’s havoc with the Germans.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A hundred years heal not the Order’s wounds,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I smote the hundred-headed monster’s heart.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their treasures wasted, well-springs of their power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their towns in flames, a sea of blood has flowed,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I caused all this! I have fulfilled my vows!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">More fearful vengeance hell might not conceive.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I will no more of it—I am a man!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I spent my youth in foul hypocrisy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In bloody, murders. Now, bent down with age,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wearied of treasons, I am unfit for war.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Enough of vengeance. Germans, too, are men!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God has enlightened me. I come from Litwa,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And I have seen those places, seen thy castle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Kowno castle,—now it lies in ruin.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I turned away, urged thence my rapid course;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And hurried to that valley, our own valley.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All was as formerly! Those woods, those flowers!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All as it was upon that very eve,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When to the valley breathed we long farewell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alas! it seems to me but yesterday!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That stone—rememberest thou that high-raised +stone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Once of our rambles limit made and end?</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page82">[pg 82]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It standeth now, though overgrown with moss;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scarce might I view it, hidden thus in green.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I tore the herb off, watered it with tears.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That grassy seat, where, through the summer noon,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou didst among the maples love to rest;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That spring, whose waters then I sought for thee—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I found them all, looked on them, passed around.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And even thy little arbour still remains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As with dry willow-twigs I fenced it in;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And those dry twigs, a wonder, my Aldona,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That once I planted in the barren sand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day thou wouldst not know them—lovely trees,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And the light leaves of spring upon them wave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And on them grows the youthful catkin’s down.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Oh! seeing these, a blessing all unknown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Foreshadowing of joy, revived my heart;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The trees embracing, on my knees I fell</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O God! I cried, grant all may be fulfilled!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Oh! may we, to our Fatherland restored,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When dwelling in our Litwa’s native fields,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Again revive to life; may leaves of hope</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Again o’erdeck with green our destiny.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let us return! consent! I rule the Order;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I will bid open. But what need commands?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For were this door a thousand times more hard</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page83">[pg 83]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Than steel, I’d beat it down—I’d pluck it up;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thee, O my beloved, to our valley,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There will I lead thee, raise thee with my hand.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or go we further still? Litwa has deserts;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There lie deep shades in woods of Bialowiez,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where never rings the clang of foreign swords,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nor sounds the haughty victor’s signal-word—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No, nor the groanings of our vanquished brothers.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There, in the midst of silent, pastoral joy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in thine arms, and on thy bosom, let me</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Forget that there are nations in the world;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or any worlds; we for ourselves will live—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Return, oh! speak, consent!”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 8.00em">Aldona spoke not;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Konrad, silent, waited yet reply:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Meanwhile the blood-red dawn shone forth in +heaven.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“O God! Aldona, morning is before us,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And men will wake: the guard arrest us here.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Aldona!”</span>—called he, trembling with despair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No voice was his; beseeching with his eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He lifted to the tower his claspèd hands,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fell on his knees, and pity to entreat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Embraced and kissed the walls of that cold tower.</div> +</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page84">[pg 84]</span> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">The Recluse.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“No, no! the time is past,”</span> her sad voice spoke;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“But be thou tranquil, Heaven will give me strength,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Lord will shield me from that heaviest stroke.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When here I came, I on the threshold swore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Never to leave this tower, but for the grave.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I wrestled with myself, and thou, my love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou, even thou, against the Lord wouldst aid me.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wouldst give back to the world a wretched +phantom?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Oh think! oh think! if madly I should give</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Myself to be persuaded, leave this cave</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And fall with rapture into thine embrace;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But thou wouldst know not, neither welcome me,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Avert thine eyes, and ask, with horror struck,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">‘What, is this fearful spectre fair Aldona?’</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thou wouldst seek in this extinguished eye,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in this visage her—the thought is death!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No, never let the poor recluse’s woe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Offend the beauty of the bright Aldona!</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Myself, I will confess, forgive me, love!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Oft as the moon with brighter lustre gleams,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hearing thy voice, I hide behind these walls,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page85">[pg 85]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unwishing, loved one, to behold thee near!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For thou, maybe, art not the same to-day</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Which once thou wert, in those sweet years gone +by,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When with our hosts didst to our castle ride.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But thou retainest, hidden in my breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Those self-same eyes, that posture, form, and dress.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So the fair moth, within the amber drowned,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Retains its primal form eternally.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O Alf! ’twere better far that we remain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That which we were in former days, and as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We shall unite again,—but not on earth.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Leave we the beauteous valleys to the happy,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I love the stony stillness of my cell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For me ’tis bliss enough to see thee living,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in the evening thy loved voice to hear.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in this silence, Alf, beloved, we may</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Heal every suffering, sweeten every pang,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All treasons, murders, burnings, cast aside,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Strive thou to come but earlier and more frequent.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If thou shouldst—listen, on these very plains,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like to that arbour plant another bower,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And hither bring those willows that thou lovest,</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page86">[pg 86]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And flowers, and even that stone from out the +valley;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There let the children from the hamlet near,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Play joyously beneath their native trees,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And into garlands weave their native plants;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let them repeat the Lithuanian songs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For native song doth meditation aid,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And brings me dreams of Litwa and of thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And later, later, when my life is o’er,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Here let them sing, and on the grave of Alf.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alf heard no longer; he, on that wild shore,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wandered on aimless, without thought or will;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A mountain there of ice, a forest there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Allured him; savage sights and hasty course</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Afforded him relief in weariness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His breast was heavy in the winter rain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He cast aside his mantle, coat-of-mail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He tore his garments, from his breast threw off</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All—all but sorrow!</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now morning lighted on the city ramparts.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He saw an unknown shadow, stopped, and gazed—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The shadow further moved; with silent steps</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It glided o’er the snow, and disappeared</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page87">[pg 87]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Within the trenches, but a voice was heard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Three times that voice repeated: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Woe, woe, +woe!”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alf at this voice awoke, and stood in thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He thought awhile,—and understood the whole.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He drew his sword, and looked to every side;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He turned him round, searched with unquiet eye—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">’Twas waste around; only the winter snow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Flew in a whirlwind, and the north wind roared</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He looked upon the shore, he stood in grief.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At length with rapid stride, though tottering,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He came again beneath Aldona’s tower.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Far off he saw her, at the window still.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Good day!”</span> he cried; <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“so many, many years,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We saw each other only in the night.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And now good day! what happy augury!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The first good day after so many years!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And canst thou guess, wherefore I come so soon?”</span></div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Aldona.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I will not guess. Farewell, belovèd friend!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The light has risen too brightly—if they knew +thee—</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page88">[pg 88]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cease to importune me. Farewell till evening.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">I cannot come forth—will not”</span></div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Alf.</span></p> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 10.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Tis too late.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Know’st thou for what I pray thee? Throw some +twig;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No, no, thou hast no flowers. From thy garments</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A thread, or from thy tresses cast a lock;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or throw a pebble from thy prison walls.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day I wish—all may not see to-morrow.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I would to-day have some remembrance of thee,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That lay this very morn upon thy breast,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And which a tear shall glow on, lately shed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For I would lay it on my heart in death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And bid the gift farewell with my last breath.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I must die shortly, swiftly, suddenly!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Well die together! Dost thou see that shot-hole?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There will I dwell. Each morning for a sign,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I’ll hang a black cloth on the balcony,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And at the grate each evening place a lamp.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There gaze thou steadfast. Throw I down the cloth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Or if the lamp expires before its time,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Close thou thy window. I maybe return not.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Farewell, beloved!”</span></div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page89">[pg 89]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 6.00em">He vanished. Still Aldona</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Gazed, bending downward from the window grate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The morn had passed away, the sun had set,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But her white garments, dallying in the wind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And arms stretched down to earth were long +beheld.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The sun has set at last,”</span> spoke Alf to Halban,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And pointed from his shot-hole to the sun.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Within the turret, from the early morn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He sat, and looked upon Aldona’s window,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Give me my cloak and sword. Farewell, true +friend;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I go unto the tower. Farewell for long,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Maybe for ever!—Listen to me, Halban.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If, when to-morrow day begins to gleam,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I come not back, leave thou this dwelling-place.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I will, I would give something to thy charge.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How lone am I! either in earth or heaven,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To no one, nowhere, have I aught to say</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In my death-hour, except to her and thee!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Farewell unto thee, Halban; she will know it.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Throw down the kerchief if to-morrow morn—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">But what is that? Dost hear? There comes a +knocking.”</span></div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page90">[pg 90]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Who goeth there?”</span> three times the sentry cried.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Woe!”</span> answered many voices wild and strange.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Resistance none the sentry might oppose;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The door could not withstand the heavy shocks.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The invaders passed the lower galleries through,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And mounted up the winding iron stair</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That led to Wallenrod’s last dwelling-place.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alf with the iron bolt secured the door,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His sabre drew, a cup raised from the board,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Drew near the window. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It is done!”</span> he cried.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He filled, and drank. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Old man, ’tis in thy hands.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Halban grew pale. With motion of his hand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He thought to spill the draught—he stopt in +thought.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sounds aye nearer through the doors were +heard,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His hand relaxed. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“’Tis they, the foes are come!”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Old man, thou knowest what this uproar means?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What are thy thoughts? Thou hast the goblet full—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">I have drunk my portion. In thy hands, old man.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Halban gazed on in silence of despair.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“No, no, I will survive even thee, my son!</span></div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page91">[pg 91]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I would as yet remain to close thine eyes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And live, so that the glory of thy deed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I to the world may tell, to ages show.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I’ll traverse Litwa’s castles, hamlets, towns;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And where I pass not, there my song shall fly.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The bard shall sing them unto knights in war,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And women sing them for their babes at home.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aye! they shall sing them, and in future days</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Some venger shall arise from out our bones.”</span><a id="noteref_5" name="noteref_5" href="#note_5"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">5</span></span></a></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alf fell upon the window-sill with tears,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And long, long time upon the tower he gazed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As though he yet his gaze would satiate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With those dear sights he shortly must forego.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He hung on Halban’s neck; they mixed their +sighs,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In that embrace of long and last farewell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But at the bolts they heard a steely rattle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And armèd men came in, and called Alf s name.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Traitor, thy head must fall beneath the sword;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Repent thee of thy sins, prepare for death!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Behold this old man, chaplain of the Order,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Cleanse thou thy soul and make a fitting end!”</span></div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page92">[pg 92]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alf stood with drawn sword ready for their coming;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But paler aye he grew, he bowed, and tottered,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Leaned on the sill; casting a haughty glance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His mantle tore off, flung the Master’s badge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On earth, and trampled scornful under foot.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Behold the sins committed in my life.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ready am I to die; what will ye more?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The annals of my ruling will ye hear?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Look on these many thousands hurled to death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On towns in ruins, and domains in flames.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hear ye the storm-winds? clouds of snow drive on;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thither your army’s remnants freeze in ice.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hear ye? The hungry packs of dogs do howl,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They tear each other for the banquet’s remnant.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I caused all this, and I am great and proud,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So many hydras’ heads one blow has felled;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As Samson, by once shaking of the column,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">To o’er throw the temple, dying in its ruin.”</span></div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He spoke, looked on the window, and he fell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But ere he fell, he cast the lamp to earth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It three times glimmered with a circling blaze,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That rested latterly on Konrad’s brow;</div> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page93">[pg 93]</span> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in its scattered flow the fire’s rust gleamed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But ever deeper into darkness sank.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At length, as though it gave the sign of death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One last great ring of light shot forth its blaze;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And in this blaze were seen the eyes of Alf,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All white in death, and now the light was dark.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And at this moment through the tower walls +pierced</div> +<div id="n_16" class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A sudden cry,<a href="#note_16" class="tei tei-ref" style="text-align: left">16</a> strong, lengthened, broken off—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From whose breast came it? Surely ye can guess</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But he who heard it readily might tell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That from the breast whence such a cry escaped,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now never more should any voice come forth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For this voice a whole life spoke aloud.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus lute strings, shuddering from a heavy stroke,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Vibrate and burst; in their confusèd sounds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They seem to voice the first notes of a song,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But of such song let none expect the end.</div> +</div> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Such be my singing of Aldona’s fate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let music’s angel sing it through in heaven,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thou, O tender reader, in thy soul.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page95">[pg 95]</span> +<a name="toc20" id="toc20"></a> +<a name="pdf21" id="pdf21"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%"> +NOTES. +</span></h1> + +<p id="note_1" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_1" class="tei tei-ref"> +(1) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Marienbourg, in Polish Malborg, a fortified town, formerly the +capital of the Teutonic Order, under Kazimir Jagellon (1444-1492) +united to the Polish Republic; later on, given as a pledge +to the Margraves of Brandenburgh. It came at last into the +possession of the Kings of Prussia. In the vaults of the castle +were the graves of the Grand-Masters, some of which are still +preserved. +</p> + +<p id="note_2" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_2" class="tei tei-ref"> +(2) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">But foreign houses of his fame were full.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Houses—so were called the convents, or rather castles, scattered +through various parts of Europe. +</p> + +<p id="note_3" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_3" class="tei tei-ref"> +(3) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">The strife of keen-edged swords</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic"> = combattre à +outrance.</span></span> +</a></p> + +<p id="note_4" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_4" class="tei tei-ref"> +(4) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Archkomtur.</span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Grosskomthur was the chief officer after the Grand-Master. +</p> + +<p id="note_5" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_5" class="tei tei-ref"> +(5) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Some unknown pious woman from afar.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The chronicles of that time speak of a country girl, who, +having come to Marienbourg, asked to be walled up in a +solitary cell, and there ended her life. Her grave was famous +for miracles. +</p> + +<p id="note_6" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_6" class="tei tei-ref"> +(6) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Our master he.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In time of election, if opinions were divided or uncertain, +similar occurrences were often taken as omens, and influenced +the decisions of the chapter. Thus Winrych Kniprode gained +all the voices, because some of the brothers heard, as though +from the tombs of the Grand-Masters, a three-fold calling: +<span class="tei tei-q">“Vinrice, ordo laborat.”</span> +</p> + +<p id="note_7" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_7" class="tei tei-ref"> +(7) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">A fire eternal burns in Swentorog’s halls.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The castle of Wilna, where formerly was maintained the +Znicz; that is, an ever-burning fire. +</p> + +<p id="note_8" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_8" class="tei tei-ref"> +(8) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">The place was Witold’s.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +[Witold, the son of Kiejstut, after rising over the heads of the +other Lithuanian princes to the sovereignty of the whole country, +was ultimately dispossessed by his cousin Jagellon, founder of +the Jagellon dynasty, which reigned over Poland and Lithuania +from 1386 to 1572.] +</p> + +<p id="note_9" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_9" class="tei tei-ref"> +(9) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Song of the Wajdelote.</span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Wajdelotes, Sigonoci, Lingustoni were priests whose office +was to relate or sing to the people the acts of their forefathers at +all festivals. That the old Lithuanians and Prussians loved and +cultivated poetry is proved by the enormous number of ancient +songs, still remaining among the common people, and by the +testimony of chroniclers. We read that during a grand festival +on the occasion of the election of the Grand-Master Winrych von +Kniprode, a German Minnesinger, being honoured with applause +and a gold cup, a Prussian named Rizelus, was so encouraged +by this good reception of a poet, that he entreated for permission +to sing in his native Lithuanian tongue, and celebrated the deeds +of the first king of the Litwini, Wajdewut. The Grand-Master +and the knights, not understanding and disliking the Lithuanian +speech, ridiculed the poet, and gave him a present of a plate +of empty nutshells. In Prussia the Crusaders forbade officials +and all who approached the court to use the Lithuanian tongue, +under penalty of death; they banished from the country, together +with the Jews and gipsies, the Wajdelotes, or Lithuanian +bards, who alone knew and could relate the national annals. +Again in Lithuania, after the introduction of the Christian faith +and the Polish language, the ancient priests and the native speech +fell into disrepute, and were forgotten; thence the common +people, changed to serfs, and attached to the soil, having abandoned +the sword, also forgot those chivalric songs. Still something +has remained of their ancient annals and heroic verse, long +joined with superstition, communicated in secret to the people. +Simon Grunau, in the sixteenth century, came by accident on the +Prussians at a solemnity, and with difficulty saved his life, on promising +the peasants, that he never would reveal to any one what +he should see or hear; then, after performing sacrifice, an old Wajdelote +began to sing the deeds of the ancient Lithuanian heroes, +mingling therewith prayers and moral instructions. Grunau, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page97">[pg 97]</span> +who well understood Lithuanian, confesses that he never expected +to hear anything similar from the lips of a Lithuanian, +such was the beauty of the theme and the phraseology. +</p> + +<p id="note_10" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_10" class="tei tei-ref"> +(10) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Stands visibly the pestilential maid.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The common people in Lithuania figure pestilential air under +the form of a maiden, whose appearance, here described according +to the popular song, precedes a terrible sickness. I +quote, in substance at least, a ballad I once heard in Lithuania: +—<span class="tei tei-q">“In a village appeared the maiden of the pestilence; and, after +her custom, thrusting her hand through door or window, and +waving a red cloth, scattered death through the houses. The +inhabitants shut themselves up in a state of siege, but hunger +and other necessities soon obliged them to neglect such means +of safety; all therefore awaited death. A certain gentleman, +although well provided with victuals, and able to maintain a long +while this strange siege, yet resolved to sacrifice himself for the +good of his neighbours, took a sabre of the time of the Sigismonds, +on which was the name of Jesus and the name of Mary, +and thus armed, opened the window of the house. The gentleman, +with one stroke, cut off the spectre’s hand, and got possession +of the handkerchief. It is true he died, and all his family +died; but from that time the disease was never known in the +village.”</span> This handkerchief was said to be preserved in the +church, I do not recollect of what village. In the East, before +the appearance of the plague, a phantom with bats’ wings is +said to appear, and to point with its fingers at those condemned +to die. It appears as though popular imagination wished to +present, by such images, that mysterious foreboding and strange +anxiety which usually precedes great misfortune or destruction, +and which often is shared, not by individuals only, but by whole +nations. Thus in Greece were forebodings of the long duration +and terrible results of the Peloponnesian war; in the Roman +Empire of the fall of monarchy; in America of the coming of +the Spaniards. +</p> + +<p id="note_11" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_11" class="tei tei-ref"> +(11) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">The trees of Bialowiez.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +[The trees here referred to are of an immense age and extra-ordinary +height, challenging comparison with the giant trees of +California. Many of them were venerated as divinities by the +pagans of Lithuania, in whose religion tree and serpent worship +formed a prominent feature. Oracles were supposed to be +given from a peculiar species of oak, called Baublis, ever green +both summer and winter. In the trunk of one of these, cut +down about the year 1845, there were counted 1417 rings.] +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page98">[pg 98]</span> +<p id="note_12" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_12" class="tei tei-ref"> +(12) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Lithuanians used to burn prisoners of war, especially +Germans, as offerings to the gods. For this purpose was set +aside the leader, or the most distinguished of the knights for +high descent and bravery; if several had become prisoners, the +unfortunate victim was chosen by lot. For example, after the +victory of the Lithuanians over the Crusaders, in the year 1315, +Stryjkowski says: <span class="tei tei-q">“And Litwa and Zmudz (Samogitia) after +this victory, and after taking abundant spoil from their conquered +and thunder-stricken foes, when they had paid to their gods +sacrifices and the accustomed prayers, burnt alive a distinguished +Crusader of the name of Gerard Rudde, the chief of the prisoners, +with the horse on which he made war, and with the armour which +he had worn, on a lofty pile of wood; and with the smoke they +sent his soul to heaven, and scattered his body to the winds with +the ashes.”</span> +</p> + + +<p id="note_13" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_13" class="tei tei-ref"> +(13) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">They gave me the name of Walter.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Walter von Stadion, a German knight, taken prisoner by the +Lithuanians, married the daughter of Kiejstut, and with her +secretly departed from Lithuania. It frequently occurred that +Prussians and Lithuanians, carried off as children, and educated +in Germany, returned to their country, and became the bitterest +foes of the Germans. Thus the Prussian Herkus Monte was +remarkable in the annals of the Order. +</p> + +<p id="note_14" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_14" class="tei tei-ref"> +(14) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">War.</span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The picture of this war is drawn from history. [The circumstances +of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, no doubt largely +furnished the painful and realistic details in the text.] +</p> + +<p id="note_15" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_15" class="tei tei-ref"> +(15) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">The secret tribunal descends to council.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the Middle Ages, when powerful dukes and barons frequently +permitted themselves great crimes, when the power of +ordinary tribunals was too weak to humble them, secret brotherhoods +were formed, whose members, unknown to one another, +bound themselves by oath to punish the guilty, not pardoning +even their own friends or relatives. As soon as the secret judges +had pronounced the decree of death, the condemned man was +made aware of it, by a voice calling under his windows, or +somewhere in his presence, the word—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Weh!</span></span> (woe!) This +word, three times repeated, was a warning that he who heard +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page99">[pg 99]</span> +it should prepare for death, which he must infallibly and unexpectedly +receive from an unknown hand. The secret court +was called the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">fehm</span></span> tribunal (Vehmgericht) or Westphalian. It +is difficult to determine its origin; according to some writers +it was instituted by Charlemagne. At first necessary, it gave +opportunity for many abuses later on, and governments were +forced to exercise severity occasionally against the judges themselves, +before this institution was completely overthrown. +[Scott’s graphic description in <span class="tei tei-q">“Anne of Geierstein”</span> of the +court and procedure of the Vehmgericht will be instantly +suggested.] +</p> + +<p id="note_16" class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#n_16" class="tei tei-ref"> +(16) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">A sudden cry.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +</a></p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">—</span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">What cleaves the silent air,</span></span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">So madly shrill, so passing wild?</span></span></div> + +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">It was a woman’s shriek, and ne’er</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">In madlier ascents rose despair;</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">And they who heard it as it passed,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">In mercy wished it were the last.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Parisina</span></span>.</div> +</div> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +[The coincidence, or borrowing of ideas, is manifest, but the +image has been amplified and beautified in the Polish poem.] +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">N.B.</span></span>—In all the Polish words retained in the text, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">j</span></span> is pronounced +like <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">y</span></span>, and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">w</span></span> like <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">v</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">EDINBURGH AND LONDON.</p> +</div> + + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + + + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> + <dl class="tei tei-list-footnotes"><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_1" name="note_1" href="#noteref_1">1.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lithuanian woman.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_2" name="note_2" href="#noteref_2">2.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Inhabitant of Rus (White Russia, Little Russia, also +Red Russia, or Galicia). +</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_3" name="note_3" href="#noteref_3">3.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pole. The native name of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Polska</span></span> is derived from <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">pole</span></span>=field, +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lachy</span></span>=plain of the Lachs. +</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_4" name="note_4" href="#noteref_4">4.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bard.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_5" name="note_5" href="#noteref_5">5.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“<span lang="la" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="la">Exoriare aliquis ex ossibus nostris ultor.</span>”</span></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">—Æneid, B. iv. l. 625.</p> +</dd></dl> + </div> + + + + + +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <div id="pgfooter" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"><pre class="pre tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KONRAD WALLENROD*** +</pre><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em"><a name="rightpageheader22" id="rightpageheader22"></a><a name="pgtoc23" id="pgtoc23"></a><a name="pdf24" id="pdf24"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Credits</span></h1><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr><th class="tei tei-label tei-label-gloss">October 9, 2010 </th></tr><tr><td class="tei tei-item tei-item-gloss"><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Project Gutenberg TEI edition 1</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item"><span class="tei tei-respStmt"> + <span class="tei tei-name"> + Produced by Jimmy O’Regan. + (Produced from images generously made available by + <a href="http://archive.org/" class="tei tei-xref">the Internet Archive</a>) + </span> + </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em"><a name="rightpageheader25" id="rightpageheader25"></a><a name="pgtoc26" id="pgtoc26"></a><a name="pdf27" id="pdf27"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">A Word from Project Gutenberg</span></h1><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This file should be named + 34050-h.html or + 34050-h.zip.</p><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This and all associated files of various formats will be found + in: + + <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/4/0/5/34050/" class="block tei tei-xref" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"><span style="font-size: 90%">http://www.gutenberg.org</span><span style="font-size: 90%">/dirs/3/4/0/5/34050/</span></a></p><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Updated editions will replace the previous one — the old + editions will be renamed.</p><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Creating the works from public domain print editions means that + no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the + Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United + States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. + Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this + license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg™ electronic works + to protect the Project Gutenberg™ concept and trademark. 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When the Prussians +submitted to the swords of the Teutonic knights, the +Lithuanians, issuing from their forests and marshes, +annihilated with sword and fire the neighbouring +empires, and soon became terrible in the north. +History has not as yet satisfactorily explained by +what means a nation so weak, and so long tributary +to foreigners, was able all at once to oppose and +threaten all its enemies—on one side, carrying on +a constant and murderous war with the Teutonic +Order; on the other, plundering Poland, exacting +tribute from Great Novgorod, and pushing itself as +far as the borders of the Wolga and the Crimean +peninsula. The brightest period of Lithuanian +<pb n='iv'/> +history occurs in the time of Olgierd and Witold, +whose rule extended from the Baltic to the Black +Sea. But this monstrous empire, having sprung +up too quickly, could not create in itself internal +strength, to unite and invigorate its differing portions. +The Lithuanian nationality, spread over too +large a surface of territory, lost its proper character. +The Litwini subjugated many Russian tribes, +and entered into political relations with Poland. +The Slavs, long since Christians, stood in a higher +degree of civilisation, and although conquered, or +threatened by Lithuania, gained by gradual influence +a moral preponderance over their strong, +but barbarous tyrants, and absorbed them, as the +Chinese their Tartar invaders. The Jagellons, and +their more powerful vassals, became Poles; many +Lithuanian princes adopted the Russian religion, +language, and nationality. By these means the +Grand Duchy of Lithuania ceased to be Lithuanian; +the nation proper found itself within its former +boundaries, its speech ceased to be the language +of the court and nobility, and was only preserved +among the common people. Litwa presents the +singular spectacle of a people which disappeared in +the immensity of its conquests, as a brook sinks +after an excessive overflow, and flows in a narrower +bed than before. +</p> +<pb n='v'/> +<p> +The circumstances here mentioned are covered +by some centuries. Both Lithuania, and her +cruellest enemy, the Teutonic Order, have disappeared +from the scene of political life; the relations +between neighbouring nations are entirely changed; +the interests and passions which kindled the wars +of that time are now expired; even popular song +has not preserved their memory. Litwa is now +entirely in the past: her history presents from this +circumstance a happy theme for poetry; so that a +poet, in singing of the events of that time, objects +only of historic interest, must occupy himself with +searching into, and with artfully rendering the subject, +without summoning to his aid the interests, +passions, or fashions of his readers. For such +subjects Schiller recommended poets to seek. +</p> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Was unsterblich im Gesang will leben,</q></l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Muss im Leben untergehen.</q></l> +</lg> +</div> +<div rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n='vii'/> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE</head> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>The</hi> Teutonic Order, originally, like the Knights +Hospitallers, established in the Holy Land about +1199, settled, after the cessation of the Crusades, +in the country bordering upon the Baltic Sea, at +the mouth of the Vistula, in the year 1225. The +possession of the Baltic shores, and of such lands +as the Order should conquer from the pagan +Prussians and Litwini, was assured to them by +Konrad, Duke of Masowsze, brother to Leszek +the White of Poland. The fatal error thus committed, +in abandoning a hold on the sea-coast, had +afterwards a disastrous effect on the history of +Poland. The Order speedily made themselves +masters of the whole country of Prussia, and +were engaged in ceaseless war with the pagans +of Lithuania, under pretext of their conversion; +more frequently, it is however to be feared, for +purposes of raid and plunder. It is, in fact, upon +record that a certain Lithuanian prince, who had +<pb n='viii'/> +offered to embrace Christianity for the purpose of +recovering part of his territory conquered by the +Order, upon finding that his conversion would +produce no better disposition in them towards +himself, declared his intention of abiding in +paganism, with the remark that he saw it was +no question of his faith, but of his possessions. +The plundering expeditions of the Teutonic +knights up country, in which many of the chivalry +of all Europe frequently bore a part, were +termed <hi rend='italic'>reyses</hi>. The English reader will remember +how Chaucer’s knight had fought <q>aboven alle +nations in Pruce.</q> +</p> +<p rend='text-align: center'> +<q>In <hi rend='italic'>Lettow had he reysed</hi> and in Ruce.</q> +</p> +<p> +Henry IV. also, during his banishment, fought in +the ranks of the Order. +</p> +<p> +After the conversion of Lithuania, and the union +of that country with Poland, the Teutonic knights +were frequently engaged in hostilities with both +powers combined, sustaining in the year 1410 a +terrible defeat at Tannenberg in E. Prussia, from +the forces of Jagellon. In this battle it is worthy +of note that the famous John Ziska was engaged. +In 1466 Casimir Jagellon inflicted heavy losses on +the Order. After its secularisation in 1521, when +the Grand-Master Albert embraced the reformed +<pb n='ix'/> +faith, the domains of E. Prussia were held as a +fief from Poland. In 1657 Prussia became an +independent state under Frederick William, the +great Elector. It is curious to observe how the +name of Prussia, originally that of a conquered, +non-Germanic people, has become in our time +that of the first German power in the world. +</p> +<p> +The historical circumstances on which the poem +of <q>Konrad Wallenrod</q> is founded are thus detailed +at length by the author himself, in the following +postscript to the work:— +</p> +<p> +<q>We have called our story historical, for the +characters of the actors, and all the more important +circumstances mentioned therein, are sketched according +to history. The contemporary chronicles, +in fragmentary and broken portions, must be filled +out sometimes only by guesses and conjectures, in +order to create some historic entirety from them. +Although I have permitted myself conjectures in the +history of Wallenrod, I hope to justify them by their +likeness to truth. According to the chronicle, Konrad +Wallenrod was not descended from the family +of Wallenrod renowned in Germany, though he gave +himself out as a member of it. He was said to +have been born of some illicit connection. The +royal chronicle says, <q>Er war ein Pfaffenkind.</q> +Concerning the character of this singular man, we +<pb n='x'/> +read many and contradictory traditions. The +greater number of the chroniclers reproach him +with pride, cruelty, drunkenness, severity towards +his subordinates, little zeal for religion, and even +with hatred for ecclesiastics. <q><foreign lang='de'>Er war ein rechter +Leuteschinder (library of Wallenrod). Nach Krieg, +Zank, und Hader hat sein Herz immer gestanden; +und ob er gleich ein Gott ergebener Mensch von +wegen seines Ordens sein wollte, doch ist er allen +frommen geistlichen Menschen Graüel gewesen. +(David Lucas). Er regierte nicht lange, denn Gott +plagte ihn inwendig mit dem laufenden Feuer.</foreign></q> +On the other hand, contemporary writers ascribe to +him greatness of intellect, courage, nobility, and +force of character; since without rare qualities he +could not have maintained his empire amid universal +hatred and the disasters which he brought upon +the Order. Let us now consider the proceedings +of Wallenrod. When he assumed the rule of the +Order, the season appeared favourable for war with +Lithuania, for Witold had promised himself to lead +the Germans to Wilna, and liberally repay them for +their assistance. Wallenrod, however, delayed to +go to war; and, what was worse, offended Witold, +and reposed such careless confidence in him, that +this prince, having secretly become reconciled to +Jagellon, not only departed from Prussia, but on +<pb n='xi'/> +the road, entering the German castles, burnt them +as an enemy, and slaughtered the garrisons. In +such an unimagined change of circumstances, it +was needful to neglect the war, or undertake it +with great prudence. The Grand-Master proclaimed +a crusade, wasted the treasures of the +Order in preparation—5,000,000 marks—a sum +at that time immeasurable, and marched towards +Lithuania. He could have captured Wilna, if he +had not wasted time in banquets and waiting for +auxiliaries. Autumn came; Wallenrod, leaving the +camp without provisions, retired in the greatest +disorder to Prussia. The chroniclers and later +historians were not able to imagine the cause of +this sudden departure, not finding in contemporary +circumstances any cause therefor. Some have +assigned the flight of Wallenrod to derangement +of intellect. All the contradictions mentioned in +the character and conduct of our hero may be reconciled +with each other, if we suppose that he +was a Lithuanian, and that he had entered the +Order to take vengeance on it; especially since +his rule gave the severest shock to the power of +the Order. We suppose that Wallenrod was Walter +Stadion (see note), shortening only by some years +the time which passed between the departure of +Walter from Lithuania, and the appearance of +<pb n='xii'/> +Konrad in Marienbourg. Wallenrod died suddenly +in the year 1394; strange events were said to +have accompanied his death. <q>Er starb,</q> says +the chronicle; <q><foreign lang='de'>in Raserei ohne letzte Oehlung, +ohne Priestersegen, kurz vor seinem Tode +wütheten Stürme, Regensgüsse, Wasserfluthen; +die Weichsel und die Nogat durchwühlten ihre +Dämme; hingegen wühlten die gewässer sich eine +neue Tiefe da, wo jetzt Pilau steht!</foreign></q> Halban, or, +as the chroniclers call him, Doctor Leander von +Albanus, a monk, the solitary and inseparable +companion of Wallenrod, though he assumed the +appearance of piety, was according to the chroniclers +a heretic, a pagan, and perhaps a wizard. Concerning +Halban’s death, there are no certain accounts. +Some write that he was drowned, others +that he disappeared secretly, or was carried away +by demons. I have drawn the chronicles chiefly +from the works of Kotzebue, <q><foreign lang='de'>Preussens Geschichte, +Belege und Erläuterungen.</foreign></q> Hartknoch, in calling +Wallenrod <q>unsinnig,</q> gives a very short account of +him.</q> +</p> +<p> +As to the conditions under which the poem was +written, it is perhaps needful to state that it was +composed by Mickiewicz, during the term of his +banishment into Russia, and was first published at +St. Petersburg in the year 1828. In the character of +<pb n='xiii'/> +the hero of the story, and in various circumstances +of the poem, it is impossible not to recognise the +influence of Lord Byron’s poetry, which obtained +so powerful an ascendency over the works and +imaginations of the Continental romanticists, and +had thus an influence over foreign literature not +conceded in the poet’s own country. The Byronic +character, however, presents a far nobler aspect in +the hands of the present author than in those of +its original creator; for, instead of being the outcome +of a mere morbid self-concentration, and +brooding over personal wrongs, it is the result of +a noble indignation for the sufferings of others, and +is conjoined with a high purpose for good, even +though such good be worked out by means in +themselves doubtful or questionable. +</p> +<p> +We cannot pass by the subject without saying a +word as to the undercurrent of political meaning +in <q>Konrad Wallenrod,</q> which fortunately escaped +the rigid censorship of the Russian press. Lithuania, +conquered and oppressed by the Teutonic +Order, is Poland, subjugated by Russia; and the +numerous expressions of hatred for oppressors and +love of an unhappy country woven into the substance +of the narrative must be read as the utterances +of a Pole against Russian tyranny. The +underhand machinations of the concealed enemy +<pb n='xiv'/> +against the state in which he is a powerful leader, +may be held to figure that intricate web of intrigue +and conspiracy which Russian liberalism is gradually +weaving throughout the whole political system, +and which is daily gaining influence and power. +The character of Wallenrod is essentially the same +as that of Cooper’s <q>Spy;</q> but we cannot suppose +that the author intended to hold up trickery and +deceit as praiseworthy and honourable, even though +it is the sad necessity of slaves to use treachery as +their only weapon; or that the Macchiavellian +precept with which the story is headed is at all +intended as one to be generally followed by seekers +of political liberty against despotism. The end and +aim of this, as of all the works of Mickiewicz, is to +show us a great and noble soul, noble in spite of +many errors and vices, striving to work out a high +ideal, and the fulfilment of a noble purpose; and +to exhibit the heroism of renunciation of personal +ease and enjoyment for the sake of the world’s or +a nation’s good. +</p> +<p> +In regard to the method used in the English +version, it is only necessary to add that as far as +possible verbal accuracy in rendering has been +endeavoured after; and an attempt, at least conscientious—whether +or not partially successful +must be left to the sentence of those qualified to +<pb n='xv'/> +form an opinion—has been made to reproduce as +nearly as may be something of the original spirit +In translating the main body of the narrative +blank verse has been the medium employed, not +as at all representing the beautiful and harmonious +interchange of rhymes and play of rhythm so +conspicuous in the Polish lines; but as securing, +by reason of freedom from the necessity for +rhymes, a truer verbal rendering, and as being the +measure par excellence best suited to English +narrative verse. The <q>Wajdelote’s Tale</q> has for +similar reasons been rendered into the same form, +instead of being reproduced in the original hexameter +stanza, as strange to the Polish as to the +English tongue, wherein, despite the works of +Longfellow and Clough, it can hardly be said to +have yet become thoroughly naturalised. Most +of the lyrics are translated into the same metres +as the originals, with the sole exception of the +ballad of Alpujara. This, as being upon a Spanish +or Moorish subject, it was judged best to render +into a form nearly resembling that of the ancient +Spanish ballad, and employed by Bishop Percy in +translation of the <q>Rio Verde,</q> and other poems +from a like source. Moreover, the original <q>Alpujara</q> +is couched in a metre which, though extremely +well suited to the Polish tongue, is difficult +<pb n='xvi'/> +of imitation in English; or only to be imitated by +great loss of accuracy in rendering. +</p> +<p> +In concluding, the translator begs to express a +hope that this humble effort to present, however +feebly, to the reading public of Great Britain an +image of the work of the greatest of Polish poets, +may, not be wholly unacceptable. Any defects +which the critical eye may note, must undoubtedly +be laid rather to the charge of the copyist, than to +the original of the great master. I dare, however, +to trust, that the shadow of so great a name, and +the sincere wish to contribute this slender homage +to the memory of one of Europe’s most illustrious +writers, may serve as an excuse for over-presumption. +</p> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>London</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>March</hi> 1882. +</p> +</div> + +<div rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n='1'/> +<p rend='font-size: x-large; text-align: center'>KONRAD WALLENROD</p> +<p rend='font-size: large; text-align: center; font-style: italic'>AN HISTORICAL TALE.</p> +<p rend='font-size: large; text-align: center'>(FROM THE ANNALS OF LITHUANIA AND PRUSSIA.)</p> + +<q>Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere... +bisogna essere volpe e leone.</q> + +<p rend='text-align: right'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Macchiavelli</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>Il Principe</hi>.</p> +</div> + +<div> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Introduction.</head> + +<lg> +<l><hi rend='smallcaps'>A hundred</hi> years have passed since first the Order</l> +<l>Waded in blood of Northern heathenesse;</l> +<l>The Prussian now had bent his neck to chains,</l> +<l>Or, yielding up his heritage, removed</l> +<l>With life alone. The German followed after,</l> +<l>Tracking the fugitive; he captive made</l> +<l>And murdered unto Litwa’s farthest bound.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Niemen divideth Litwa from the foe;</l> +<l>On one side gleam the sanctuary fanes,</l> +<l>And forests murmur, dwellings of the gods.</l> +<pb n="2"/> +<l>Upon the other shore the German ensign,</l> +<l>The cross, implanted on a hill, doth veil</l> +<l>Its forehead in the clouds, and stretches forth</l> +<l>Its threatening arms towards Litwa, as it would</l> +<l>Gather all lands of Palemon together,</l> +<l>Embrace them all, assembled ’neath its rule.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>This side, the multitude of Litwa’s youth,</l> +<l>With <hi rend='italic'>kolpak</hi> of the lynx-hide and in skins</l> +<l>Clad of the bear, the bow upon their shoulders,</l> +<l>Their hands all filled with darts, they prowl around,</l> +<l>Tracking the German wiles. On the other side,</l> +<l>In mail and helmet armed, the German sits</l> +<l>Upon his charger motionless; while fixed</l> +<l>His eyes upon the entrenchments of the foe,</l> +<l>He loads his arquebuse and counts his beads.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>And these and those alike the passage guard.</l> +<l>The Niemen thus, of hospitable fame,</l> +<l>In ancient days, uniting heritage</l> +<l>Of brother nations, now for them becomes</l> +<l>The threshold of eternity, and none,</l> +<l>But by foregoing liberty or life,</l> +<l>Cross the forbidden waters. Only now</l> +<l>A trailer of the Lithuanian hop,</l> +<pb n="3"/> +<l>Drawn by allurement of the Prussian poplar,</l> +<l>Stretches its fearless arms, as formerly,</l> +<l>Leaping the river, with luxuriant wreaths,</l> +<l>Twines with its loved one on a foreign shore.</l> +<l>The nightingales from Kowno’s groves of oak</l> +<l>Still with their brethren of Zapuszczan mount,</l> +<l>Converse, as once, in Lithuanian speech.</l> +<l>Or having on free pinions ’scaped, they fly,</l> +<l>As guests familiar, on the neutral isles.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>And mankind?—War has severed human kind!</l> +<l>The ancient love of nations has departed</l> +<l>Into oblivion. Love by time alone</l> +<l>Uniteth human hearts.—Two hearts I knew.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>O Niemen! soon upon thy fords shall rush</l> +<l>Hosts bearing death and burning, and thy shores,</l> +<l>Sacred till now, the axe shall render bare</l> +<l>Of all their garlands; soon the cannon’s roar</l> +<l>Shall from the gardens fright the nightingales.</l> +<l>Where nature with a golden chain hath bound,</l> +<l>The hatred of the nations shall divide;</l> +<l>It severs all things. But the hearts of lovers</l> +<l>Shall in the Wajdelote’s song unite once more.</l> +</lg> +</div> + +<div rend="page-break-before: right"> +<pb n="4"/> +<index index='toc' level1='I. The Election.'/> +<index index='pdf' level1='I. The Election.'/> +<head>The Election.</head> +<lg> +<l id='n_1'>In towers of Marienbourg<ref target='note_1' rend='superscript'>1</ref> the bells are ringing,</l> +<l>The cannon thunder loud, the drums are beating.</l> +<l>This in the Order is a solemn day.</l> +<l>The Komturs hasten to the capital,</l> +<l>Where, gathered in the chapter’s conclave, they,</l> +<l>The Holy Spirit invoked, take counsel who</l> +<l>Is worthiest to bear the mighty sword,—</l> +<l>Into whose hands may they confide the sword?</l> +<l>One day, and yet another flowed away</l> +<l>In council; many heroes there contend.</l> +<l>And all alike of noble race, and all</l> +<l>Alike deserving in the Order’s cause.</l> +<l>But hitherto the brethren’s general voice</l> +<l>Placed Wallenrod the highest over all</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>A stranger he, in Prussia all unknown,</l> +<l id='n_2'>But foreign houses of his fame were full<ref target='note_2' rend='superscript'>2</ref></l> +<l>Following the Moors upon Castilian sierras,</l> +<l>The Ottoman through ocean’s troubled waves,</l> +<l>In battle at the front, first on the wall,</l> +<l>To grapple vessels of the infidel</l> +<l>The first; and in the tourney, soon as he</l> +<l>Entered the lists and deigned his visor raise,</l> +<pb n="5"/> +<l id='n_3'>None dared with him the strife of keen-edged +swords,<ref target='note_3' rend='superscript'>3</ref></l> +<l>By one accord the victor’s garland yielding.</l> +<l>But not alone amid Crusading hosts</l> +<l>He with the sword had glorified his youth;</l> +<l>For many Christian graces him adorn,</l> +<l>Poverty, humbleness, of earth disdain.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>But Konrad shone not in the courtly crowd</l> +<l>By polished speech, by well-turned reverence;</l> +<l>Nor e’er his sword for vile advantage sold</l> +<l>To service of disputing barons. He</l> +<l>Had consecrated to the cloister walls</l> +<l>His youthful years; all plaudits he disdained,</l> +<l>And ruler’s place, even higher, sweeter meeds.</l> +<l>Nor minstrel’s hymn, nor beauty’s fair regard</l> +<l>Could speak to his cold spirit. Wallenrod</l> +<l>Listens unmoved to praise, and looks afar</l> +<l>On lovely cheeks, enchanting discourse flies.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Had Nature made him thus unfeeling, proud?</l> +<l>Or age? For albeit young in years, his locks</l> +<l>Were grey already, withered were his looks,</l> +<l>And sufferings sealed by age.—Twere hard to guess.</l> +<l>He would at times divide the sports of youth,</l> +<pb n="6"/> +<l>Or listen, pleased, to sound of female tongues,</l> +<l>To courtiers’ jests reply with other jests;</l> +<l>Or scatter unto ladies courteous words</l> +<l>With chilly smile, as dainties cast to children—</l> +<l>These were rare moments of forgetfulness;—</l> +<l>And speedily some light, unmeaning word,</l> +<l>That had no sense for others, woke in him</l> +<l>Passionate stirrings. These words: Fatherland,</l> +<l>Duty, Beloved,—the mention of Crusades,</l> +<l>And Litwa, all the mirth of Wallenrod</l> +<l>Instantly poisoned. Hearing them, again</l> +<l>He turned away his countenance, again</l> +<l>Became to all around insensible,</l> +<l>And buried him in thoughts mysterious.</l> +<l>Maybe, remembering his holy call,</l> +<l>He would forbid himself the sweets of earth;</l> +<l>The sweets of friendship only did he know,</l> +<l>One only friend had chosen to himself,</l> +<l>A saint by virtue and by holy state.</l> +<l>This was a hoary monk; men called him Halban.</l> +<l>He shared the loneliness of Wallenrod;</l> +<l>He was alike confessor of his soul,</l> +<l>And of his heart the trusted confidant</l> +<l>O blessed friendship! saint is he on earth,</l> +<l>Whom friendship with the holy ones unites.</l> +<pb n="7"/> +<l>Thus do the leaders of the Order’s council</l> +<l>Discourse of Konrad’s virtues. But one fault</l> +<l>Was his,—for who may spotless be from faults?</l> +<l>Konrad loved not the riots of the world,</l> +<l>Nor mingled Konrad in the drunken feast.</l> +<l>Though truly, in his secret chamber locked,</l> +<l>When weariness or sorrow tortured him,</l> +<l>He sought for solace in a burning draught;</l> +<l>And then he seemed a new form to indue,</l> +<l>And then his visage pallid and severe</l> +<l>A sickly red adorned, and his large eyes,</l> +<l>Erst heavenly blue, but somewhat now by time</l> +<l>Dulled and extinguished, shot the lightnings forth</l> +<l>Of ancient fires, while sighs of grief escape</l> +<l>From forth his breast, and with the pearly tear</l> +<l>The laden eyelid swells; the hand the lute</l> +<l>Seeks, the lips pour forth songs; the songs are sung</l> +<l>In speech of a strange land, but yet the hearts</l> +<l>Of the hearers understand them. ’Tis enough</l> +<l>To list that grave-like music, ’tis enough</l> +<l>The singer’s form to contemplate, to see</l> +<l>Memory’s inspiration on that face,</l> +<l>To view the lifted brows and sideward looks,</l> +<l>Striving to snatch some object from deep darkness.</l> +<l>What may the hidden thread be of the songs?</l> +<pb n="8"/> +<l>He tracketh surely, in this wandering chase,</l> +<l>In thought his youth through deep gulfs of the past.</l> +<l>Where is his soul?—In the land of memories!</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>But never did that hand in music’s impulse</l> +<l>Mere joyful tones from out the lute evoke;</l> +<l>And still it seemed his countenance did fear</l> +<l>Innocent smiles, even as deadly sins.</l> +<l>All strings he strikes in turn, one string except—</l> +<l>Except the string of mirth;—the hearer shares</l> +<l>All feelings with him,—one excepted—hope!</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Not seldom him the brethren have surprised,</l> +<l>And marvelled at his unaccustomed change.</l> +<l>Konrad, aroused, did writhe himself and rage,</l> +<l>Had cast away the lute and ceased to sing.</l> +<l>He spoke out loudly impious words; to Halban</l> +<l>Whispered some secret things; called to the host,</l> +<l>Gave forth commands, and uttered dreadful threats,</l> +<l>On whom they knew not. All their hearts were +troubled.</l> +<l>Old Halban tranquil sits, and on the face</l> +<l>Of Konrad drowns his glance,—a piercing glance,</l> +<l>Cold and severe, full of some secret speech.</l> +<pb n="9"/> +<l>Something he may recall, some counsel give,</l> +<l>Or waken grief in heart of Wallenrod,</l> +<l>Whose cloudy brow at once is calm again,</l> +<l>His eyes forego their fires, his rage is cool.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Thus when, in public sport, the lionward,</l> +<l>Before assembled lords, and dames, and knights,</l> +<l>Unbars the grating of the iron cage.</l> +<l>The trumpet signal given, the royal beast</l> +<l>Growls from his deep breast, horror falls on all.</l> +<l>Alone his keeper moveth not a step,</l> +<l>Folds tranquilly upon his breast his hands,</l> +<l>And smites with power the lion,—by the eye.</l> +<l>With talisman of an undying soul</l> +<l>Unreasoning strength in bonds he doth control.</l> +</lg> +</div> +<div> +<pb n="10"/> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>II.</head> +<lg> +<l>In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing;</l> +<l>Now from the hall of council to the chapel</l> +<l>Comes the chief Komtur, then the chiefest rulers,</l> +<l>The chaplain, brothers, and assembled knights.</l> +<l>The chapter listen vesper orisons,</l> +<l>And sing a hymn unto the Holy Spirit</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Hymn.</p> +<lg> +<l rend="margin-left: 4">Spirit! Thou Holy One,</l> +<l rend="margin-left: 4">Thou Dove of Sion’s Hill!</l> +<l>This Christian world, the footstool of Thy throne,</l> +<l rend="margin-left: 4">With glory visible</l> +<l rend="margin-left: 4">Lighten, that all behold.</l> +<l>Thy wings o’er Sion’s brotherhood unfold,</l> +<l>And let Thy glory shine from underneath</l> +<l rend="margin-left: 3">Thy wings, with sunlike rays.</l> +<pb n="11"/> +<l>And him, the worthiest of so holy praise,</l> +<l>Circle his temples with Thy golden wreath.</l> +<l>Fall on the visage of that son of man,</l> +<l>Whom shadows o’er Thy wings’ protecting van.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l rend="margin-left: 4">Thou Saviour Son!</l> +<l>With beckoning of Thy hand almighty, deign</l> +<l rend="margin-left: 4">To point of many one,</l> +<l rend="margin-left: 4">Worthiest to hold,</l> +<l>And wear the sacred symbol of Thy pain.</l> +<l>To lead with Peter’s sword thy soldiery,</l> +<l rend="margin-left: 2">Before the eyes of heathenesse unfold</l> +<l rend="margin-left: 2">The standards of Thy heavenly empery.</l> +<l>Then let the sons of earth bow lowly down,</l> +<l>Him on whose breast the cross shall gleam to own.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l id='n_4'>Prayers o’er, they parted. The Archkomtur<ref target='note_4' rend='superscript'>4</ref> ordered</l> +<l>After repose, to seek the choir again;</l> +<l>Again entreat that Heaven would enlighten</l> +<l>Chaplains and brethren, called to such election.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>So went they forth themselves to recreate</l> +<l>With the cool freshness of the night; and some</l> +<l>Sat in the castle porch, and others walk</l> +<pb n="12"/> +<l>Through gardens and through groves. The night +was still;</l> +<l>It was the fair May season; from afar</l> +<l>Peeped forth the pale uncertain dawn; the moon,</l> +<l>Having the sapphire plains o’ercoursed, with aspect</l> +<l>Changing, with varying lustre in her eye,</l> +<l>Now in a shadowy, now a silvery cloud</l> +<l>Slumbering, now sank her still and tranquil head,</l> +<l>Like to a lover in the wilderness;</l> +<l>Dreaming in thought, life’s circle he o’erruns,</l> +<l>All hopes, all sweetness, and all sufferings.</l> +<l>Now sheds he tears, now joyful is his glance.</l> +<l>At length upon his breast the weary brow</l> +<l>Sinketh, and falls in sense’s lethargy.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>By walking other knights beguile the time,</l> +<l>But the Archkomtur wastes no time in vain.</l> +<l>He quickly summons Halban and the chiefs</l> +<l>Unto himself, and leads them to one side;</l> +<l>That, from the curious crowd afar removed,</l> +<l>They may pursue their counsels and impart</l> +<l>Forewarnings; from the castle go they forth.</l> +<l>They hasten to the plain. Conversing thus,</l> +<l>All heedless of their path, some hours astray</l> +<l>They wandered in the region close beside</l> +<pb n="13"/> +<l>The inlets of a tranquil lake. ’Tis morn!</l> +<l>This hour they should regain the capital.</l> +<l>They stop,—a voice,—whence? From the corner +tower!</l> +<l>They listen,—’tis the voice of the recluse!</l> +<l>Long time within this tower, ten summers since,</l> +<l id='n_5'>Some unknown pious woman, from afar,<ref target='note_5' rend='superscript'>5</ref></l> +<l>Who came to Mary’s town,—Maybe that Heaven</l> +<l>Inspired her blest design, or with the balm</l> +<l>Of penance she would heal the wounds of conscience,—</l> +<l>Did seek the shelter of a lone recluse,</l> +<l>And here she found while living yet a tomb.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Long time the chaplains would not give consent.</l> +<l>Then, wearied by the constancy of prayers,</l> +<l>They gave her in this tower a shelter lone.</l> +<l>Scarcely the sacred threshold had she crossed,</l> +<l>When o’er the threshold bricks and stones were +piled;</l> +<l>The angels only, in the judgment-day</l> +<l>Shall ope the door which parts her from the living.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Above a little window and a grate,</l> +<l>Whereby the pious folk send nourishment,</l> +<pb n="14"/> +<l>And Heaven sends breezes and the rays of day.</l> +<l>Poor sinner! was it hatred of the world</l> +<l>Abused thy young heart to so great extreme</l> +<l>That thou dost fear the sun. and heaven’s fair face?</l> +<l>Scarcely imprisoned in her living grave,</l> +<l>None saw her, through the window of the tower,</l> +<l>Receive upon her lips the wind’s fresh breath,</l> +<l>Nor look upon the heaven in sunshine beauty,</l> +<l>Or the sweet flowerets on the plain of earth,</l> +<l>Or, dearer hundred-fold, her fellow-men.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>’Tis only known that still she is in life;</l> +<l>For when betimes a holy pilgrim wanders</l> +<l>Near her retreat by night, a sweet, low sound</l> +<l>Holds him awhile. Certain it is the sound</l> +<l>Of pious hymns. And when the village children</l> +<l>Together in the oak-grove sport at eve,</l> +<l>Then from the window shines a streak of white,</l> +<l>As ’twere a sunbeam from the rising dawn.</l> +<l>Is it an amber ringlet of her hair,</l> +<l>Or lustre of her slender, snowy hand</l> +<l>Blessing those innocent heads? The chivalry</l> +<l>Hear as they pass the corner tower these words:</l> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Thou art Konrad! Heaven! Fate is now fulfilled!</q></l> +<pb n="15"/> +<l>Thou shalt be Master, that thou mayest destroy +them!</l> +<l>Will they not recognise?—Thou hid’st in vain.</l> +<l>Though like the serpent’s were thy body changed,</l> +<l>Yet of the past would in thy soul remain</l> +<l>Many things still,—truly they cleave to me.</l> +<l>Though after burial thou shouldst return,</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Then, even then, would the Crusaders know +thee!</q></l> +<l>The knights attend,—’tis the recluse’s voice;</l> +<l>They look upon the grate; she bending seems,</l> +<l>Towards the earth she seems her arms to stretch.</l> +<l>To whom? The region is all desert round;</l> +<l>Only from far strikes an uncertain gleam,</l> +<l>In likeness of a steely helmet’s flame,</l> +<l>A shadow on the earth, a knightly cloak;—</l> +<l>Already it has vanished. Certainly</l> +<l>’Twas an illusion of the eyes, most certain</l> +<l>It was the rosy glance of morn that gleamed.</l> +<l>For morning’s clouds now rolled away from earth.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q>Brothers!</q> spoke Halban, <q rend='post: none'>give we thanks to +Heaven,</q></l> +<l>For certain Heaven’s decree hath led us here;</l> +<l>Trust we to the recluse’s prophet voice.</l> +<pb n="16"/> +<l>Heard ye? She made a prophecy of Konrad,—</l> +<l>Konrad, the name of valiant Wallenrod!</l> +<l>Let brother unto brother give the hand,</l> +<l>And knightly word, and in to-morrow’s council</l> +<l id='n_6'><q rend='pre: none'>Our Master he!</q><ref target='note_6' rend='superscript'>6</ref>—<q>Agreed,</q> they cried, <q>agreed!</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>And shouting went they. Far along the vale</l> +<l>Resounds the voice of triumph and of joy;</l> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Long Konrad live! long the Grand-Master live!</q></l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Long live the Order! perish heathenesse!</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Halban remained behind, in deep thought plunged;</l> +<l>He on the shouters cast an eye of scorn</l> +<l>He looked towards the tower, and in low tones,</l> +<l>This song he sang, departing from the place:—</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Song.</p> +<lg> +<l>Wilija, thou parent of streams in our land,</l> +<l>Heaven-blue is thy visage and golden thy sand;</l> +<l>But, lovely Litwinka,<note place='foot'><p>Lithuanian woman.</p></note> who drinkest its wave,</l> +<l>Far purer thy heart, and thy beauty more brave.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Wilija, thou flowest through Kowno’s fair vale,</l> +<l>Amid the gay tulips and narcissus pale.</l> +<pb n="17"/> +<l>At the feet of the maiden, the flower of our youth,</l> +<l>Than roses, than tulips, far fairer in sooth.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The Wilija despiseth the valley of flowers,</l> +<l>She seeks to the Niemen, her lover, to rove;</l> +<l>The Litwinka listens no love-tale of ours,</l> +<l>The youth of the strangers has filled her with love.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>In powerful embrace doth the Niemen enfold,</l> +<l>And beareth o’er rocks and o’er wild deserts lone;</l> +<l>He presses his love to his bosom so cold,</l> +<l>They perish together in sea-depths unknown.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Thee too, poor Litwinka, the stranger shall call</l> +<l>Away from the joys of that sweet native vale;</l> +<l>Thou deep in Forgetfulness’ billows must fall,</l> +<l>But sadder thy fate, for alone thou must fail.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>For streamlet and heart by no warning are crost,</l> +<l>The maiden will love and the Wilija will run;</l> +<l>And in her loved Niemen the Wilija is lost,</l> +<l>In the dark prison-tower weeps the maiden undone.</l> +</lg> +</div> + +<div> +<pb n="18"/> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>III.</head> +<lg> +<l>When the Grand-Master had the sacred books</l> +<l>Kissed of the holy laws, and from the Komtur</l> +<l>Received the sword and grand cross, ensigns high</l> +<l>Of power, he raised his haughty brow. Although</l> +<l>A cloud of care weighed on him, with his eye</l> +<l>He scattered fire around him. In his glance</l> +<l>Burns exultation, half with anger mixed,—</l> +<l>And, guest invisible, upon his face</l> +<l>Hovered a faint and transitory smile,</l> +<l>Like lightning which divides the morning cloud,</l> +<l>Boding at once the sunrise and the thunder.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The Master’s zeal, his threatening countenance,</l> +<l>All hearts with hope and newer courage fills;</l> +<l>Battle before them they behold and plunder,</l> +<l>And pour in thought great floods of pagan blood.</l> +<l>Who shall against such ruler dare to stand?</l> +<l>Who will not fear his sabre or his glance?</l> +<pb n="19"/> +<l>Tremble, Litwini! for the time is near,</l> +<l>From Wilna’s ramparts when the cross shall shine.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Vain are their hopes, for days and weeks flew by;</l> +<l>In peace a whole long year has flowed away,</l> +<l>And Litwa threatens. Wallenrod, ignobly</l> +<l>Himself nor combats, nor goes out to war;</l> +<l>And when he rouses and begins to act,</l> +<l>Reverses the old ruling suddenly.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>He cries, <q rend='post: none'>The Order has o’erstepped its laws,</q></l> +<l>The brethren violate their plighted vows.</l> +<l>Let us engage in prayer, renounce our treasures,</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>And seek in virtue and in peace renown.</q></l> +<l>To penance he compels them, fasts, and burdens;</l> +<l>Denies all pleasures, comforts innocent;</l> +<l>Each venial sin doth cruelly chastise</l> +<l>With dungeons underground, exile, the sword.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Meanwhile the Litwin, who long years afar</l> +<l>Had shunned the portals of the Order’s town,</l> +<l>Now burns the villages around each night,</l> +<l>And captive their defenceless people takes.</l> +<l>Beneath the very castle proudly boasts,</l> +<l>He in the Master’s chapel goes to mass.</l> +<pb n="20"/> +<l>And children trembled on their parents’ threshold,</l> +<l>To hear the roar of Samogitia’s horn.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>What time were better to begin a war</l> +<l>While Litwa by internal strife is torn?</l> +<l>Here the bold Rusin,<note place='foot'> +<p>Inhabitant of Rus (White Russia, Little Russia, also +Red Russia, or Galicia). +</p></note> here the unquiet Lach,<note place='foot'><p> +Pole. The native name of <hi rend='italic'>Polska</hi> is derived from <hi rend='italic'>pole</hi>=field, +and <hi rend='italic'>Lachy</hi>=plain of the Lachs. +</p></note></l> +<l>The Crimean Khans lead on a mighty host;</l> +<l>And Witold, by Jagellon dispossessed,</l> +<l>Has come to seek protection of the Order;</l> +<l>In recompense doth promise gold and land,</l> +<l>But hitherto for help he waits in vain.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The brothers murmur, council now assembles,</l> +<l>The Master is not seen. Old Halban hastes,</l> +<l>But in the castle, in the chapel finds</l> +<l>Not Konrad. Whither is he? At the tower!</l> +<l>The brotherhood have tracked his steps by night.</l> +<l>’Tis known to all; for at the evening hour,</l> +<l>When all the earth is veiled with thickest mists,</l> +<l>He sallies forth to wander by the lake.</l> +<l>Or on his knees, supported by the wall,</l> +<pb n="21"/> +<l>Draped in his mantle, till the white dawn gleams,</l> +<l>He lieth, moveless as a marble form,</l> +<l>And unsubdued by sleep the whole night long.</l> +<l>Oft at the soft voice of the fair recluse</l> +<l>He rises, and returns her low replies.</l> +<l>No ear their import can discern afar;</l> +<l>But from the lustre of the shaking helm,</l> +<l>View of the lifted head, unquiet hands,</l> +<l>’Tis seen some discourse pends of weighty things.</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Song from the Tower.</p> +<lg> +<l>Ah! who shall number all my tears and sighs?</l> +<l>Have I so long wept through these weary years?</l> +<l>Was such great bitterness in heart and eyes,</l> +<l>That all this grate is rusty with my tears?</l> +<l>Where falls the tear it penetrates the stone,</l> +<l>As in a good man’s heart ’twere sinking down.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l id='n_7'>A fire eternal burns in Swentorog’s halls;<ref target='note_7' rend='superscript'>7</ref></l> +<l>Its pious priests for ever feed the fire:</l> +<l>From Mendog’s hill a fount eternal falls;</l> +<l>The snows and storm-clouds swell it ever higher.</l> +<l>None feed the torrent of my sighs and tears,</l> +<l>Yet pain for ever heart and eyeballs sears.</l> +</lg> +<pb n="22"/> +<lg> +<l>A father’s care, a mother’s tender love,</l> +<l>And a rich castle and a joyous land,</l> +<l>Days without longing, nights no dream might move</l> +<l>Peace like a tranquil angel aye did stand</l> +<l>Near me, abroad, at home, by day and night,</l> +<l>Guarding me close, though viewless to the sight.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Three lovely daughters from one mother born,</l> +<l>And I the first demanded as a bride;</l> +<l>Happy in youth, happy in joys to be,</l> +<l>Who told me there were other joys beside?</l> +<l>O lovely youth! why didst thou tell me more</l> +<l>Than e’er in Litwa any knew before?</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Of the great God, of angels bright as day,</l> +<l>Of stone-built cities where religion rests,</l> +<l>Where in rich churches all the people pray,</l> +<l>Where princely lords obey their maidens’ hests;</l> +<l>Like to our warriors great in warlike pains,</l> +<l>Tender in love as are our shepherd swains.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Where man, from covering of clay set free,</l> +<l>A winged soul, flies through a joyful heaven.</l> +<l>I could believe it, for in listening thee</l> +<l>I had a foretaste of those wonders even.</l> +<pb n="23"/> +<l>Ah! since that time, in good and evil plight,</l> +<l>I dream of thee and those fair heavens bright.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The cross upon thy breast rejoiced mine eyes;</l> +<l>The sign of future bliss therein I read.</l> +<l>Alas! when from the cross the thunder flies,</l> +<l>All things around are silenced, perished.</l> +<l>Nought I regret, though bitter tears I pour;</l> +<l>Thou tookest all from me, but hope leftst o’er.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q>Hope!</q> the low echoes from the shore replied,</l> +<l>The valleys and the forest Konrad woke,</l> +<l>And laughing wildly, answered, <q rend='post: none'>Where am I?</q></l> +<l>To hear in this place—hope? Wherefore this +song?</l> +<l>I do recall thy vanished happiness.</l> +<l>Three lovely daughters from one mother born,</l> +<l>And thou the first demanded as a bride.</l> +<l>Woe unto you, fair flowers! woe to you!</l> +<l>A fearful viper crept into the garden,</l> +<l>And where the reptile’s livid breast has touched</l> +<l>The grass is withered and the roses fade,</l> +<l>And yellow as the reptile’s bosom grow.</l> +<l>Fly from the present in thought; recall the days</l> +<l>Which thou hadst spent in joyousness without—</l> +<pb n="24"/> +<l>Thou’rt silent! Raise thy voice again and curse;</l> +<l>Let not the dreadful tear which pierces stones</l> +<l>Perish in vain. My helmet I’ll remove.</l> +<l>Here let it fall; I am prepared to suffer;</l> +<l>Would learn betimes what waiteth me in hell.</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Voice from the Tower.</p> +<lg> +<l>Pardon, my loved one, pardon! I am guilty!</l> +<l>Late was thy coming, weary ’twas to wait,</l> +<l>And thus, despite myself, some childish song—</l> +<l>Away with it! What have I to regret?</l> +<l>With thee, my love, with thee a passing space</l> +<l>We lived through; but the memory of that time</l> +<l>I would not change with all earth’s habitants,</l> +<l>For tranquil life passed through in weariness.</l> +<l>Thyself didst say to me that common men</l> +<l>Are as those shells deep hidden in the marsh;</l> +<l>Scarce once a year by some tempestuous wave</l> +<l>Cast up, they peep from out the troubled water,</l> +<l>Open their lips, and sigh forth once towards +heaven,</l> +<l>And to their burial once more return.</l> +<l>No! I am not created for such bliss.</l> +<l>While yet within my Fatherland I dwelt</l> +<pb n="25"/> +<l>A still life, sometimes in my comrades’ midst</l> +<l>A longing seized me, and I sighed in secret,</l> +<l>And felt unquiet throbbings in my heart;</l> +<l>And sometimes fled I from the lower plain,</l> +<l>And standing on the higher hill, I thought,</l> +<l>If but the larks would give me from their wings</l> +<l>One feather only, I would fly with them,</l> +<l>And only from this mountain wish to pluck</l> +<l>One little flower, the flower forget-me-not,</l> +<l>And then afar beyond the clouds to fly</l> +<l>Higher and higher, and to disappear!</l> +<l>And thou didst hear me! Thou, with eagle +pinions,</l> +<l>Monarch of birds, didst raise me to thyself.</l> +<l>O now, ye larks, I beg for nought from you,</l> +<l>For whither should she fly, what pleasures seek,</l> +<l>Who has the great God learned to know in heaven,</l> +<l>And loved a great man on this lower world?</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Konrad.</p> +<lg> +<l>Greatness, and greatness yet again, mine angel!</l> +<l>Greatness for which we groan in misery!</l> +<l>A few days still,—let it torment the heart,—</l> +<l>A few days only, fewer already are.</l> +<pb n="26"/> +<l>’Tis done! ’Tis vain to grieve for vanished time.</l> +<l>Aye! let us weep, but let our proud foes tremble!</l> +<l>For Konrad wept, but ’twas to murder them!</l> +<l>But wherefore cam’st thou here—wherefore, my +love?</l> +<l>Unto God’s service did I vow myself.</l> +<l>Was it not better in His holy walls,</l> +<l>Afar from me to live and die than here,</l> +<l>In the land of lying and of murderous war,</l> +<l>In this tower-grave by long and painful tortures</l> +<l>To expire, and open solitary eyes,</l> +<l>And through the unbroken fetters of this grate</l> +<l>Implore for help, and I be forced to hear,</l> +<l>To look upon the torture of long death,</l> +<l>Standing afar, and curse my very soul,</l> +<l>That harbours relics yet of tenderness?</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Voice from the Tower.</p> +<lg> +<l>If thou lamentest, hither come no more!</l> +<l>Though thou shouldst come, with burning zeal +implore,</l> +<l>Thou shouldst hear nought. My window now I +close,</l> +<l>Descend once more into my prison darkness.</l> +<pb n="27"/> +<l>Let me in silence drink my bitter tears.</l> +<l>Farewell for aye, farewell, my only one!</l> +<l>And let the memory perish of this hour,</l> +<l>Wherein thou didst no pity for me show.</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Konrad.</p> +<lg> +<l>Then thou have pity! for thou art an angel!</l> +<l>Stay! But if prayer is powerless to restrain,</l> +<l>On the tower’s angle will I strike my head;</l> +<l>I will implore thee by the death of Cain.</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Voice from the Tower.</p> +<lg> +<l>O let us both have pity on ourselves!</l> +<l>My love, remember, great as is this world,</l> +<l>Two of us only on this mighty earth,</l> +<l>Upon the seas of sand two drops of dew.</l> +<l>Scarce breathes a little wind, from the earthly vale</l> +<l>For aye we vanish—ah! together perish!</l> +<l>I came not here for this, to torture thee.</l> +<l>I would not on me take the holy vows,</l> +<l>Because I dared not pledge my heart to Heaven,</l> +<l>While yet in it an earthly lover reigned.</l> +<l>I in the cloister would remain, and humbly</l> +<l>Devote my days to service of the nuns.</l> +<pb n="28"/> +<l>But there without thee, everything around</l> +<l>Was all so new, so wild, so strange to me!</l> +<l>Remembering then that after many years,</l> +<l>Thou shouldst return again to Mary’s town</l> +<l>To seek for vengeance on the enemy,</l> +<l>The cause defending of a hapless folk,</l> +<l>I said unto myself, <q rend='post: none'>Who waits long years</q></l> +<l>Shortens with thoughts; maybe he now returns,</l> +<l>Maybe is come. Is it not free to ask,</l> +<l>Though living I immure me in the grave,</l> +<l>That once more I may look upon thy face,</l> +<l>That I at least may perish near to thee?</l> +<l>And therefore to the hermit’s narrow house</l> +<l>Upon the road, upon the broken rock,</l> +<l>I will betake me, and enclose myself.</l> +<l>Some knight maybe, in passing by my hut,</l> +<l>May speak aloud by chance my loved one’s name;</l> +<l>Among the foreign helmets I may view</l> +<l>His crest; though changed the fashion of his arms,</l> +<l>Although a strange device adorn his shield,</l> +<l>Although his face be changed, even then my +heart</l> +<l>Will recognise my lover from afar.</l> +<l>And when a heavy duty him compels</l> +<l>To shed the blood of all and to destroy,</l> +<pb n="29"/> +<l>And all shall curse him, one heart yet alone</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Shall dare afar to bless him.</q> Here I chose</l> +<l>My habitation and my grave apart,</l> +<l>In silence, where the sacrilege of groans</l> +<l>The traveller dare not listen. Thou, I know,</l> +<l>Lovest to walk alone. Within myself</l> +<l>I thought, <q rend='post: none'>Maybe at even he will come,</q></l> +<l>Having his comrades left behind, to hold</l> +<l>Converse with winds and billows of the lake;</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>And he will think of me and hear my voice.</q></l> +<l>And Heaven did fulfil my innocent wish.</l> +<l>Thou earnest; thou didst understand my song.</l> +<l>I prayed in former times that dreams might bless</l> +<l>Me with thine image, though the form were mute:</l> +<l>To-day, what happiness! To-day, together,—</l> +<l>Together we may weep!</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Konrad.</p> +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>And wherefore weep?</l> +<l>I wept, thou dost remember, when I tore</l> +<l>Myself for ever from thy dear embrace,</l> +<l>And of my free will died from happiness,</l> +<l>That thus I might designs of blood fulfil.</l> +<l>That too long martyrdom at length is crowned.</l> +<pb n="30"/> +<l>Now stand I at the summit of desires;</l> +<l>I can revenge me on the enemy.</l> +<l>And thou hast come to tear my victory from me!</l> +<l>Till now, when from the window of thy turret</l> +<l>Thou didst look on me, in the world’s whole circle</l> +<l>Again there seemed no thing to meet my eye,</l> +<l>But the lake only, and the tower and grate.</l> +<l>Around me all with tumult seethes of war.</l> +<l>’Mid trumpet clamour, ’mid the clash of arms,</l> +<l>I seek impatient with a straining ear,</l> +<l>For the angelic sound of thy sweet lips,</l> +<l>And all the day for me is waiting hope.</l> +<l>And when the evening season I have reached,</l> +<l>I wish to lengthen it by memories:</l> +<l>I reckon by its evenings all my life.</l> +<l>Meanwhile the Order murmurs at repose,</l> +<l>Entreat for war, demand their own perdition;</l> +<l>And vengeful Halban will not let me breathe,</l> +<l>But still recalls to me those ancient vows,</l> +<l>The slaughtered hamlets, and the lands destroyed;</l> +<l>Or if I will not listen his reproaches,</l> +<l>He with one sigh, one glance, one beckoning,</l> +<l>Can blow my smouldering vengeance to a flame.</l> +<l>Now seems my destiny to near its end;</l> +<l>Nought the Crusaders can withhold from war.</l> +<pb n="31"/> +<l>A messenger from Rome came yesterday.</l> +<l>From the world’s every quarter, clouds unnumbered</l> +<l>A pious zeal hath gathered in the field,</l> +<l>And all call out to me to lead them on</l> +<l>With sword and cross upon the walls of Wilna.</l> +<l>And yet—with shame I must confess—ev’n now,</l> +<l>While destinies of mighty nations pend,</l> +<l>I think of thee, and still invent delays,</l> +<l>That we may pass together one more day.</l> +<l>O youth! how fearful was thy sacrifice!</l> +<l>When young, love, happiness, a very heaven,</l> +<l>I for a nation’s cause could sacrifice</l> +<l>With grief, but courage;—and to-day, grown old,—</l> +<l>To-day despair, my duty, and God’s will</l> +<l>Compel me to the field, and still I dare not</l> +<l>Tear my grey head from these walls’ pedestal,</l> +<l>That I may not forego thy sweet conversing.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>He ceased. Groans only issued from the tower.</l> +<l>Long hours flowed by in silence. Now the night</l> +<l>Reddened, and now the water’s stilly face</l> +<l>Blushed with the ray of dawn. Among the leaves</l> +<l>Of sleeping bushes with a rustling murmur</l> +<l>The morning freshness flew. The birds awoke</l> +<pb n="32"/> +<l>With their soft notes, then once again they ceased,</l> +<l>And by long-during silence gave to know</l> +<l>They had too early woken. Konrad rose,</l> +<l>Lifted his eyes unto the tower, and looked</l> +<l>With anguish on the grate. The nightingale</l> +<l>Awoke in song, then Konrad looked around.</l> +<l>’Tis morning! and he let his visor down,</l> +<l>And in his cloak’s wide folds concealed his face.</l> +<l>With beckoning of his hand he signs adieu,</l> +<l>And in the bushes how is lost</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Ev’n thus,</l> +<l>A spirit infernal from a hermit’s door</l> +<l>Doth vanish at the sound of matin bell.</l> +</lg> +</div> + +<div> +<pb n="33"/> +<index index='toc' level1='IV. The Festival.'/> +<index index='pdf' level1='IV. The Festival.'/> +<head>IV.</head> + +<head>The festival.</head> + +<lg> +<l><hi rend='smallcaps'>It</hi> was the Patron’s day, a solemn feast;</l> +<l>Komturs and brethren to the city ride;</l> +<l>White banners wave upon the castle towers:</l> +<l>Konrad invites the knights to festival.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>A hundred white cloaks wave around the board,</l> +<l>On every mantle is the long black cross,—These</l> +<l>are the brethren, and behind them stand</l> +<l>The young esquires to serve them, in a ring.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Konrad sat at the top; upon his left</l> +<l id='n_8'>The place was Witold’s,<ref target='note_8' rend='superscript'>8</ref> with his leaders brave,—</l> +<l>One time their foe, to-day the Order’s guest,</l> +<l>Leagued against Litwa as their firm ally.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The Master, rising, gives the festal word,</l> +<l><q>Rejoice we in the Lord!</q> The goblets gleamed.</l> +<pb n="34"/> +<l><q>Rejoice we in the Lord!</q> cried thousand voices.</l> +<l>The silver shone, the wine poured forth in streams.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Silent sat Wallenrod, upon his elbow</l> +<l>Leaning, and heard with scorn the unseemly +noise.</l> +<l>The uproar ceased; scarcely low-spoken jests</l> +<l>Alternate here and there the cup’s light clash.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q>Let us rejoice,</q> he says. <q rend='post: none'>How now, my +brethren!</q></l> +<l>Beseems it valiant knights to thus rejoice?</l> +<l>One time a drunken clamour, now low murmurs?</l> +<l>Must we then feast like bandits or like monks?</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>There were far other customs in my time,</q></l> +<l>When on the battlefield with corpses piled,</l> +<l>On Castile’s mountains or in Finland’s woods,</l> +<l>We drank beside the camp-fire.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'><q rend='post: none'>Those were songs!</q></l> +<l>Is there no bard, no minstrel in the crowd?</l> +<l>Wine maketh glad indeed the heart of man,</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>But song it is that forms the spirit’s wine.</q></l> +</lg> +<pb n="35"/> +<lg> +<l>Then various singers all at once arose;</l> +<l>A fat Italian here, with birdlike tones,</l> +<l>Sings Konrad’s valour and great piety;</l> +<l>And there a troubadour from the Garonne,</l> +<l>The stories of enamoured shepherds sings,</l> +<l>Of maids enchanted and of wandering knights.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Wallenrod slept;—meanwhile the songs are o’er.</l> +<l>Awakened sudden by the loss of sound,</l> +<l>He to the Italian cast a purse of gold.</l> +<l><q>To me alone,</q> he said, <q rend='post: none'>thou didst sing praise.</q></l> +<l>Another may not give thee recompense;</l> +<l>Take and depart. Let that young troubadour,</l> +<l>Who serveth youth and beauty, pardon us</l> +<l>That in the knightly throng we have no damsel,</l> +<l>To fasten a vain rosebud to his breast</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The roses here are faded. I would have</l> +<l>Another bard,—the cloister knight desires</l> +<l>Another song; but be it wild and harsh,</l> +<l>Like to the voice of horns, the clash of swords.</l> +<l>And be it gloomy as the cloister walls,</l> +<l>And fiery as a solitary drunkard.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Of us, who sanctify and murder men,</q></l> +<l>Let song of murderous tone proclaim the saintship,</l> +<pb n="36"/> +<l>And melt our heart, and rouse to rage,—and +weary;</l> +<l>And let it then again affright the weary.</l> +<l>Such is our life, and such our song should be;</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Who then will sing it?</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left:8'><q>I,</q> replied an old</l> +<l>And venerable man, who near the door</l> +<l>Sat ’mid the squires and pages, by his robe</l> +<l>Prussian or Litwin. Thick his beard, by age</l> +<l>Whitened; the last grey hairs wave on his head;</l> +<l>His brow and eyes are covered by a veil;</l> +<l>Sufferings and years are graven on his face.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>He bore in his right hand a Prussian lute,</l> +<l>But towards the table stretched his left hand +forth,</l> +<l>And by this sign entreated audience.</l> +<l>All then were silent.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'><q>I will sing,</q> he cried.</l> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Once sang I to the Prussians and to Litwa;</q></l> +<l>Some now have perished in their land’s defence;</l> +<l>Others will not outlive their country’s loss,</l> +<l>But rather slay themselves upon her corse;</l> +<l>As servants true, in good and evil lot,</l> +<l>Will perish on their benefactor’s pile.</l> +<pb n="37"/> +<l>Others more shamefully in forests hide;</l> +<l>Others, like Witold, dwell among you here.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>But after death?—Germans! ye know full well.</q></l> +<l>Ask of the wicked traitors to their land</l> +<l>What, they shall do when, in that further world,</l> +<l>Condemned to burning of eternal fires,</l> +<l>They would their ancestors invoke from paradise?</l> +<l>What language shall entreat them for their aid?</l> +<l>If in their German, their barbaric speech,</l> +<l>The forefathers will know their children’s voice.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>O children! what a foul disgrace for Litwa,</q></l> +<l>That none of you, aye, none, defended me,</l> +<l>When from the shrine, the hoary Wajdelote,<note place='foot'><p>Bard.</p></note></l> +<l>Away they dragged me into German chains!</l> +<l>Alone in foreign lands have I grown old.</l> +<l>A singer!—alas! to no one can I sing!</l> +<l>On Litwa looking, I wept out mine eyes.</l> +<l>To-day, if I would sigh towards my home,</l> +<l>I know not where that home beloved lies,</l> +<l>If here, or there, or in another place.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Here only, in my heart, have I preserved</q></l> +<l>That in my Fatherland my best possession;</l> +<pb n="38"/> +<l>And these poor remnants of my former treasure</l> +<l>You Germans take from me,—take memory from +me!</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>As a defeated knight in tournament</q></l> +<l>Escapes with life though honour has been lost;</l> +<l>And, dragging out despisèd days in scorn,</l> +<l>Returns once more unto his conqueror;</l> +<l>And for the last time straining forth his arm,</l> +<l>Breaketh his sword beneath the victor’s feet,—</l> +<l>So my last failing courage me inspires;</l> +<l>Yet once more to the lute my hand is bold;</l> +<l>Let the last Wajdelote of Litwa sing</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Litwa’s last song!</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>He ended, and awaited</l> +<l>The Master’s answer. All in silence deep</l> +<l>Await. With mockery and with curious eye</l> +<l>Konrad tracks Witold’s every look and motion.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>They noted all how when the Wajdelote</l> +<l>Of traitors spoke, a change o’er Witold came.</l> +<l>Livid he grew and pale again he blushed,</l> +<l>Alike tormented by his rage and shame.</l> +<l>At last, his sabre casting from his side,</l> +<l>He goes, dividing all the astonished crowd.</l> +<pb n="39"/> +<l>He looked upon the old man, stayed his steps;</l> +<l>The clouds of anger hanging o’er his brow</l> +<l>Fell sudden in a rapid flood of tears;</l> +<l>He turned, sat down, with cloak he veiled his face,</l> +<l>And into secret meditation plunged</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The Germans whispered, <q rend='post: none'>Shall we to our feasts</q></l> +<l>Admit old beggars? Who will hear the song,</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>And who will understand?</q> Such voices were</l> +<l>Among the crowd of revellers, and broken</l> +<l>By constant peals of ever-growing laughter.</l> +<l>The pages cry, whistling on nuts, <q rend='post: none'>Behold!</q></l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>This is the tune of the Litvanian song.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Upon that Konrad rose. <q rend='post: none'>Ye valiant knights!</q></l> +<l>To-day the Order, by a solemn custom,</l> +<l>Receiveth gifts from princes and from towns,</l> +<l>As homage from a conquered country due.</l> +<l>The beggar brings a song as offering</l> +<l>To you: forbid we not the old man’s homage.</l> +<l>Take we the song; ’twill be the widow’s mite.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Among us we behold the Litwin prince;</q></l> +<l>His captains are the Order’s guests: to him</l> +<l>Sweet will it be to list the memory</l> +<pb n="40"/> +<l>Of ancient deeds, recalled in native speech.</l> +<l>Who understands not, let him go from hence.</l> +<l>I love betimes to hear the gloomy groans</l> +<l>Of those Litvanian songs, not understood,</l> +<l>Even as I love the noise of warring waves,</l> +<l>Or the soft murmur of the rain in spring;—</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Sweetly they charm to sleep. Sing, ancient bard!</q></l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps' id='n_9'>Song of the Wajdelote.<ref target='note_9' rend='superscript'>9</ref></p> +<lg> +<l>When over Litwa cometh plague and death,</l> +<l>The bard’s prophetic eye beholds, afraid.</l> +<l>If to the Wajdelote’s word be given faith,</l> +<l>On desert plains and churchyards, sayeth fame,</l> +<l id='n_10'>Stands visibly the pestilential maid,<ref target='note_10' rend='superscript'>10</ref></l> +<l>In white, upon her brow a wreath of flame,—</l> +<l id='n_11'>Her brow the trees of Bialowiez<ref target='note_11' rend='superscript'>11</ref> outbraves,—</l> +<l>And in her hand a blood-stained cloth she waves.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The castle guards in terror veil their eyes,</l> +<l>The peasants’ dogs, deep burrowing in the ground,</l> +<l>Scent death approaching, howl with fearful cries</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The maid’s ill-boding step, o’er all is found;</l> +<l>O’er hamlets, castles, and rich towns she goes.</l> +<pb n="41"/> +<l>Oft as she waves the bloody cloth, no less</l> +<l>A palace changes to a wilderness;</l> +<l>Where treads her foot a recent grave up-grows.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>O <corr sic='woful'>woeful</corr> sight! But yet a heavier doom</l> +<l>Foretold to Litwa from the German side,—</l> +<l>The shining helmet with the ostrich plume,</l> +<l>And the wide mantle with the black cross dyed.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>For where that spectre’s fearful step has passed,</l> +<l>Nought is a hamlet’s ruin or a town,</l> +<l>But a whole country to the grave is cast</l> +<l>O thou to whom is Litwa’s spirit dear!</l> +<l>Come, on the graves of nations sit we down;</l> +<l>We’ll meditate, and sing, and shed the tear.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>O native song! between the elder day,</l> +<l>Ark of the Covenant, and younger times,</l> +<l>Wherein their heroes’ swords the people lay,</l> +<l>Their flowers of thought and web of native rhymes.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Thou ark! no stroke can break thee or subdue,</l> +<l>While thine own people hold thee not debased.</l> +<l>O native song! thou art as guardian placed,</l> +<pb n="42"/> +<l>Defending memories of a nation’s word.</l> +<l>The Archangel’s wings are thine, his voice thine too,</l> +<l>And often wieldest thou Archangel’s sword.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The flame devoureth story’s pictured words,</l> +<l>And thieves with steel wide scatter treasure +hoards.</l> +<l>But scatheless is the song the poet sings.</l> +<l>And should vile spirits still refuse to give</l> +<l>Sorrow and hope, whereby the song may live,</l> +<l>Upward she flieth and to ruins clings,</l> +<l>And thence relateth ancient histories.</l> +<l>The nightingale from burning dwellings flits,</l> +<l>But on the roof, a moment yet she sits;</l> +<l>When falls the roof she to the forest flies,</l> +<l>And from her laden breast o’er dying embers,</l> +<l>Sings a low dirge the passer-by remembers.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>I heard the song! An ancient peasant swain,</l> +<l>When over bones his iron ploughshare rang,</l> +<l>Stood, and on flute of willow played a strain,</l> +<l>Prayers for the dead, or, with a rhymed lament,</l> +<l>Of you, great childless fathers, then he sang.</l> +<l>The echoes answered. I from far did hear,</l> +<pb n="43"/> +<l>And sorrow brought the sight and song more near;</l> +<l>In eyes and ears my spirit all was bent.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>As on the judgment-day the dead past all</l> +<l>The Archangel’s trumpet from the tomb shall call,</l> +<l>So from the song the dead bones upward grew</l> +<l>To giant forms, from sleep of death awake,</l> +<l>Pillars and arches from their ruin anew,</l> +<l>And countless oars splashed in the desert lake;</l> +<l>And soon the castle-gates wide open seemed,</l> +<l>And princes’ crowns and warriors’ armour gleamed.</l> +<l>Now sing the bards, the dance the maidens weave;</l> +<l>I dreamed of marvels,—and awoke to grieve.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Forests and native hills are vanished,</l> +<l>And thought doth fail, on weary pinions fled,</l> +<l>And sinketh in a hidden stillness drear.</l> +<l>The lute is silent in my stiffened hand,</l> +<l>And ’mid the groan of comrades of my land,</l> +<l>The voices of the past I may not hear.</l> +<l>Still something of that youthful fire once mine</l> +<l>Smoulders within me, and at times its light</l> +<l>Wakens the soul and maketh memory bright.</l> +<l>Then memory, like a lamp of crystalline,</l> +<l>The pencil has with painted colours decked,</l> +<pb n="44"/> +<l>Although by dust bedimmed, with scars beflecked;</l> +<l>Place but within its heart a little light,</l> +<l>With freshness of its colours eyes are lured,</l> +<l>On palace walls yet gleaming fair and bright,</l> +<l>Lovely, though yet with dusty cloud obscured.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>O could I but this fire of mine impart</l> +<l>To all my hearers’ breasts, the shapes upraise</l> +<l>Of those dead times, and reach the very heart</l> +<l>Of all my brothers with my burning lays!</l> +<l>But haply even in this passing hour,</l> +<l>Now when their native song their hearts can move,</l> +<l>The pulses of those hearts may beat more strong,</l> +<l>Their souls may feel the ancient pride and love;</l> +<l>And live one moment in such noble power,</l> +<l>As lived their forefathers their whole life long.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>But why invoke the ages long gone by,</l> +<l>And for the present’s glory find no voice?</l> +<l>For in your midst a great man liveth nigh—</l> +<l>I sing of him. Ye, Litwini, rejoice!</l> +</lg> +<!--<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 10%'/>--> +<lg> +<l>Silent the old man was, and hearkened round,</l> +<l>If still the Germans will permit his song.</l> +<l>Around the hall there reigned a silence deep;</l> +<pb n="45"/> +<l>This warms all poets to a newer zeal.</l> +<l>Once more he raised his song, but other theme;</l> +<l>O’er freer cadences his voice did range.</l> +<l>More rarely he, and lighter, touched the strings,</l> +<l>Descending from the hymn to simple story.</l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>The Wajdelote’s Tale.</p> +<lg> +<l>Whence come the Litwins? From a nightly sally;</l> +<l>From church and castle they have won rich spoils,</l> +<l>And crowds of German slaves with fettered hands,</l> +<l>Ropes on their necks, follow the victors’ steeds.</l> +<l>They look towards Prussia and dissolve in tears,</l> +<l>On Kowno look, commend their souls to God.</l> +<l>In midst of Kowno stretches Perun’s plain;</l> +<l>The Litwin princes, there returned from conquest,</l> +<l id='n_12'>Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.<ref target='note_12' rend='superscript'>12</ref></l> +<l>Two captive knights untroubled ride to Kowno,</l> +<l>One fair and young, the other bowed with years.</l> +<l>They in the battle left the German troops,</l> +<l>Fled to the Litwins. Kiejstut did receive them,</l> +<l>But led them to the castle under guard.</l> +<l>He asks their race, with what intent they come.</l> +<l><q>I know not,</q> said the youth, <q rend='post: none'>my race or name;</q></l> +<l>In childhood was I made the Germans’ captive.</l> +<pb n="46"/> +<l>I recollect alone, somewhere in Litwa,</l> +<l>Amid a great town stood my father’s house.</l> +<l>It was a wooden town on lofty hills,</l> +<l>The house was of red brick. Around the hills</l> +<l>Murmured a wood of fir-trees on the plains;</l> +<l>Among the woods a white lake gleamed afar.</l> +<l>One night a shout aroused us from our sleep;</l> +<l>A fiery day dawned in the window, shook</l> +<l>The window-panes, and whirling wreaths of smoke</l> +<l>Burst forth within the house. We to the door.</l> +<l>Flames curled through all the streets, sparks fell +like hail.</l> +<l>A horrid cry arose, ‘To arms! the Germans</l> +<l>Are in the town! to arms!’ My father rushed</l> +<l>Forth with his sword,—rushed forth—returned no +more!</l> +<l>The Germans poured into the house. One seized +me</l> +<l>And caught me to his saddle. What came further</l> +<l>I know not; but long, long my mother’s shrieks</l> +<l>I heard ’mid clash of swords, ’mid fall of houses.</l> +<l>This cry long followed me, stayed in my ear;</l> +<l>Even now when I view flames and falling houses,</l> +<l>This cry wakes in my soul as echo wakes</l> +<l>In caverns after thunder’s voice. Behold</l> +<pb n="47"/> +<l>My memories all of Litwa and my parents.</l> +<l>Sometimes in dreams I view the honoured forms</l> +<l>Of mother, father, brethren; but anew</l> +<l>Some cloud mysterious veils their features o’er,</l> +<l>Thicker and darker growing evermore.</l> +<l>The years of childhood passed away. I lived</l> +<l>A German among Germans, and they gave me</l> +<l id='n_13'>The name of Walter,<ref target='note_13' rend='superscript'>13</ref> Alf thereto as surname.</l> +<l>German the name, my soul remained Litvanian;</l> +<l>Grief for my parents, for the strangers hatred</l> +<l>Remained. The Master Winrych in his palace</l> +<l>Reared me, himself did hold me to the font,</l> +<l>Loved and caressed me as his very son.</l> +<l>But weary in his palace, from his knees</l> +<l>I fled unto the Wajdelote. That time</l> +<l>Among the Germans was a Litwin bard,</l> +<l>Captive for many years,—interpreter,</l> +<l>He served the army. When he heard of me</l> +<l>That I was orphan and Litvanian,</l> +<l>He told of Litwa, cheered my longing soul</l> +<l>With his caresses, song, and with the sound</l> +<l>Of the Litvanian speech. He often led me</l> +<l>To the grey Niemen’s shores; from thence I +joyed</l> +<l>To look upon my country’s well-loved mountains.</l> +<pb n="48"/> +<l>And when unto the castle we returned,</l> +<l>He dried my tears to waken no suspicion:</l> +<l>He dried my tears, but kindled in me vengeance</l> +<l>Against the Germans. I remember well</l> +<l>How, when we came again into the castle,</l> +<l>I sharpened secretly a knife, with what</l> +<l>Delight of vengeance cut I Winrych’s carpets,</l> +<l>Or broke his mirrors, on his shining shield</l> +<l>Flung sand, or spit upon it. Later on,</l> +<l>When grown near manhood, from Klajpedo’s port</l> +<l>I sailed with the old man to view the shores</l> +<l>Of Litwa. There I plucked my country’s flowers;</l> +<l>Their magic fragrance woke within my soul</l> +<l>Some ancient, dark remembrance. With the fragrance</l> +<l>Intoxicated, seemed me that a child</l> +<l>Once more I grew, and in my parents’ garden,</l> +<l>Played with my little brothers. The old man</l> +<l>Assisted memory with his words, more lovely</l> +<l>Than herbs and flowers,—painted the happy past,</l> +<l>How sweet in native land ’mid friends and kin</l> +<l>To pass one’s youth, how many Litwin children</l> +<l>Knew not such bliss, in the Order’s fetters weeping.</l> +<l>I heard this on the plains, but on the beach,</l> +<l>Where the white billows break with roaring breasts,</l> +<pb n="49"/> +<l>And from their foamy throat cast streams of sand,</l> +<l>‘Thou seest,’ the old man then was used to say,</l> +<l>‘The grassy carpet of this seaboard meadow.</l> +<l>The sand blows over it. These fragrant herbs,</l> +<l>Thou seest, would pierce the deadly covering,</l> +<l>By their brow’s strength. In vain, alas! for now</l> +<l>Another hydra comes of gravel-dust,</l> +<l>Spreads its white fins, subdues the living lands,</l> +<l>Stretching its kingdom of wild desert round.</l> +<l>My son! the gifts of spring are living cast</l> +<l>Into the grave. Behold! they are conquered +peoples,</l> +<l>Our brothers the Litwini! Son, this sand</l> +<l>Storm-driven from the sea, it is the Order.’</l> +<l>My heart did pain me hearing, and I longed</l> +<l>To murder all Crusaders, or to fly</l> +<l>To Litwa; but the old man checked my zeal.</l> +<l>‘To free knights,’ said he, ‘it is free to choose’</l> +<l>Their weapon, and with equal strength to fight</l> +<l>in open field. Thou art a slave; the only</l> +<l>Weapon that slaves may use is treachery.</l> +<l>Remain awhile and learn the Germans’ war-craft;</l> +<l>Try thou to gain their confidence; we later</l> +<l>Shall see what thing to do.’ I was obedient</l> +<l>Unto the old man’s words—went with the Germans.</l> +<pb n="50"/> +<l>But in the first fight, scarce I viewed the standards,</l> +<l>Scarce did I hear my, nation’s songs of war,</l> +<l>I sprang unto our own,—led the old man with me.</l> +<l>As the young falcon, severed from his nest,</l> +<l>And nourished in a cage, although the fowlers</l> +<l>By cruel torments strip him of his reason,</l> +<l>And send him forth to war on brother-falcons;</l> +<l>Soon as he rises ’mid the clouds, soon as</l> +<l>His eyes o’erstretch the far unmeasured plains</l> +<l>Of his blue Fatherland, he breathes free air,</l> +<l>And hears the rustle of his wings.—Return</l> +<l>Unto thy home, O fowler! do not wait</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">To see the falcon in his narrow cage.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The youth made end; with wonder Kiejstut heard,</l> +<l>And listened also Kiejstut’s daughter fair,</l> +<l>Aldona, young and lovely as a goddess.</l> +<l>The autumn passes, therewith evenings lengthen;</l> +<l>And Kiejstut’s daughter, as accustomed, sits</l> +<l>Among her sisters and her comrades’ train,</l> +<l>Weaves at the loom or spins the distaff thread;</l> +<l>But as the needles fly or spindles turn,</l> +<l>Walter stands by and telleth wondrous tales,</l> +<l>About the German countries and his youth.</l> +<l>The damsel seizes all that Walter speaks,</l> +<l>Her soul, insatiable, devours all things;</l> +<pb n="51"/> +<l>She knows them all by heart, repeats in dreams.</l> +<l>Walter related of the castle halls,</l> +<l>Great towns beyond the Niemen, what rich dresses,</l> +<l>What splendid pastimes; how in tourney knights</l> +<l>Break lances, and the damsels look upon them</l> +<l>Down from their galleries, and adjudge the prize.</l> +<l>He spoke of the great God who rules beyond</l> +<l>The Niemen, and His Son’s Immaculate Mother,</l> +<l>Whose angel form he showed in wondrous picture.</l> +<l>This picture piously adorned his breast;</l> +<l>The youth now gave it to the fair Litwinka,</l> +<l>The day he brought her to the holy faith,</l> +<l>When he prayed with her;—he would teach her all</l> +<l>He knew himself. Alas! he taught her too</l> +<l>That which as yet he knew not,—taught her love.</l> +<l>And he himself learned much. With what delight</l> +<l>He from her lips the half-forgotten words</l> +<l>Heard of Litvanian speech. New feelings rose</l> +<l>With each new-risen word like sparks from ashes.</l> +<l>Sweet were the names of family, of friendship,</l> +<l>And sweeter yet than all the name of love,</l> +<l>Which no word equals here on earth, but—country.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q>Whence,</q> Kiejstut thought, <q rend="post: none">my daughters +sudden change?</q></l> +<pb n="52"/> +<l>Where is her former mirth, her childish sports?</l> +<l>On holidays all maidens join in dance;</l> +<l>She sits alone, or converse holds with Walter.</l> +<l>On other days the needle or the loom</l> +<l>Engage the damsels; from her hands the needle</l> +<l>Falls, and the threads are tangled in the loom.</l> +<l>She sees not what she does; all tell me so.</l> +<l>And yesterday, I marked she sewed a rose,</l> +<l>The flowers with green, the leaves with rosy silk.</l> +<l>How could she know this, when her eyes and +thoughts</l> +<l>Seek only Walter’s eyes, seek his discourse?</l> +<l>Oft as I ask, ‘Where goes she?’ ‘To the valley.’</l> +<l>‘Whence comes she?’ ‘From the valley.’ +‘What is there?’</l> +<l>‘The youth has made in it a garden for her.’</l> +<l>What! is that garden fairer than my orchards?</l> +<l>(For Kiejstut owned proud orchards full of apples</l> +<l>And pears, allurement of the Kowno damsels.)</l> +<l>’Tis not the garden lures her. I have marked</l> +<l>Her windows in the winter; all the panes</l> +<l>Which look on Niemen clear are as in May;</l> +<l>The frost has not obscured the crystal glass.</l> +<l>Thence Walter comes. She sat beside the window,</l> +<l>And with her burning sighs did melt the ice.</l> +<pb n="53"/> +<l>I thought, he teaches her to read and write,</l> +<l>Hearing all princes now instruct their children,—</l> +<l>A good lad, valiant, skilled like priest in books.</l> +<l>Shall I expel him from my house? He is</l> +<l>So needful to our Litwa; he can rank</l> +<l>The troops as can no other; rampart mounds</l> +<l>He best can heap; the thunder-arms direct.</l> +<l>I have one behind my army.—Walter, come,</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">And be my son-in-law, and fight for Litwa.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>So Walter wed Aldona. Germans! you</l> +<l>No doubt will think this is the story’s end;</l> +<l>For in your love romances when the knights</l> +<l>Are married, then the minstrel ends his song,</l> +<l>And only adds, <q>They lived long and were happy.</q></l> +<l>Well Walter loved his wife; his noble soul</l> +<l>Yet found no happiness in heart or home,</l> +<l>For in the country was there blessing none.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The snows scarce vanished, scarce the first lark +sung;—</l> +<l>The lark to other lands sings love and joy,</l> +<l>But unto hapless Litwa he proclaims</l> +<l>With every year carnage and fire;—on march</l> +<l>Crusading armies in unnumbered crowds.</l> +<l>Now from the hills beyond the Niemen echo</l> +<pb n="54"/> +<l>To Kowno bears a mighty army’s shouts,</l> +<l>The clang of armour and the neigh of steeds.</l> +<l>Like mist the camp descends, o’erflows the plain,</l> +<l>And here and there the leaders’ standards gleam</l> +<l>Like lightning ere the storm. The Germans stood</l> +<l>Upon the shore, threw bridges o’er the Niemen,</l> +<l>And day by day the walls and bastions fall</l> +<l>With shock of battering-ram, and night by night</l> +<l>The storming mines work underground like moles;</l> +<l>Beneath the heavens the bomb in fiery flight</l> +<l>Rises, and swoops upon the city roofs,</l> +<l>As falls the falcon on the lesser fowl.</l> +<l>Kowno is fallen in ruins. Then the Litwin</l> +<l>Retires to Kiejdan; Kiejdan falls in ruin.</l> +<l>Then Litwa makes defence in woods and hills;</l> +<l>The Germans march on farther, robbing, burning;</l> +<l>Kiejstut and Walter first in battle, last</l> +<l>Retreating. Kiejstut was untroubled still,</l> +<l>From childhood used to combat with his foe,</l> +<l>To attack, to conquer, or to fly. He knew</l> +<l>His forefathers warred ever with the Germans;</l> +<l>He, following in their footsteps, ever fought,</l> +<l>And cared not for the future. Other were</l> +<l>The thoughts of Walter. Nurtured ’mid the Germans,</l> +<pb n="55"/> +<l>He knew the Order’s power; the Master’s summons,</l> +<l>He knew, could draw forth armies, treasures, swords,</l> +<l>From all of Europe. Prussia made defence;</l> +<l>In former times the Teutons broke the Prussians;</l> +<l>Sooner or later Litwa meets such fate.</l> +<l>He had seen the Prussians’ misery; he trembled</l> +<l>To think of Litwa’s future. <q>Son,</q> cries Kiejstut,</l> +<l><q rend="post: none">Thou art an evil prophet; thou hast reft</q></l> +<l>The veil before my eyes, to show the abyss.</l> +<l>While hearing thee, it seemed my hands grew weak,</l> +<l>With victory’s hope all courage left my breast</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">How shall we with the German power contend?</q></l> +<l><q>Father,</q> said Walter, <q rend="post: none">one sole way I know,</q></l> +<l>A dreadful way, alas! effectual!</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">Some day I may reveal it.</q> Thus did they</l> +<l>Converse, the battle over, ere the trumpet</l> +<l>Did summon to fresh battles and defeats.</l> +<l>Kiejstut grew ever sadder, and how changed</l> +<l>Seemed Walter; never over-merry he.</l> +<l>Even in happy moments some light shade</l> +<l>Of thought o’erhung his brow, but with Aldona</l> +<l>Serene was once his brow and visage tranquil,</l> +<l>Aye welcoming her with smiles, with tender glance</l> +<l>Bidding farewell to her. Now, as it seemed,</l> +<l>He was tormented by some hidden pain.</l> +<pb n="56"/> +<l>By morn, before the house, wringing his hands,</l> +<l>He looked upon the smoke of towns and hamlets,</l> +<l>Burning far off; there gazed he with wild eyes.</l> +<l>By night he started out of sleep, and looked</l> +<l>Forth from the window on the blood-red blaze.</l> +<l><q>Husband, what ails thee?</q> asks with tears Aldona.</l> +<l><q rend="post: none">What ails me? Shall I peaceful sleep till Germans</q></l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">Shall give me sleeping, bound, to hangman’s +hands?</q></l> +<l><q rend="post: none">O husband! Heaven forbid! The sentries guard</q></l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">Full well the trenches.</q> <q rend="post: none">True the sentries guard +them.</q></l> +<l>I watch and grasp the sabre in my hand.</l> +<l>But when the sentries die the sword is broken.</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">List, if I live to old age, wretched age&qdash;</q></l> +<l><q>But Heaven will give us comfort in our children.</q></l> +<l><q rend="post: none">The Germans will fall on us, slay the wife,</q></l> +<l>The children tear away, and lead them far,</l> +<l>Teach them to loose the arrow on their father.</l> +<l>Myself my father, brothers, might have slain,</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">Unless the Wajdelote&qdash;</q> <q rend="post: none">Dear Walter! go we</q></l> +<l>Farther in Litwa; hide we from the Germans</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">In mountains and in forests.</q> <q rend="post: none">Aye, we go,</q></l> +<l>And other mothers, children leave behind.</l> +<l>Thus fled the Prussians; Germans overtook them</l> +<pb n="57"/> +<l><q rend="pre: none">In Litwa. If they trace us in the mountains&qdash;</q></l> +<l><q>Let us again go farther.</q> <q rend="post: none">Farther? farther?</q></l> +<l>Unhappy one! shall we go far from Litwa,</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">Into the Tartar’s or the Rusin’s hands?</q></l> +<l>Hushed was Aldona, troubled at this answer,</l> +<l>For hitherto it had to her appeared</l> +<l>Her Fatherland were long as is the world,</l> +<l>Wide without end; and now for the first time</l> +<l>She heard there was no refuge in all Litwa.</l> +<l>Wringing her hands she asked, <q>What may be +done?</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">One way, Aldona, one remains to Litwa</q></l> +<l>To break the Order’s power: that way I know;</l> +<l>But ask it not for God’s sake. Hundred times</l> +<l>Be cursed that hour in which, constrained by foes,</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">I seize these means.</q> No farther would he say,</l> +<l>Heard not Aldona’s prayers, but only heard</l> +<l>And saw before him Litwa’s misery.</l> +<l>At last the flame of vengeance, nursed in silence,</l> +<l>By sight of suffering and defeat, increased,</l> +<l>And did surround his heart, consumed all feelings—</l> +<l>One feeling even, hitherto life-sweetening,—</l> +<l>Feeling of love. So when the hunters light</l> +<l>A hidden fire ’neath oaks of Bialowiez,</l> +<l>It burns away the inner pith; the monarch</l> +<pb n="58"/> +<l>Of the forest loses all his waving leaves,</l> +<l>His branches fly off, even that green crown</l> +<l>That once adorned his brow, the mistletoe,</l> +<l>Dries up and withers.</l> +<l rend='left-margin: 10'>Long the Litwini</l> +<l>Wandered through castles, mountains, and through +woods,</l> +<l>The Germans harrying or by them attacked,</l> +<l>Till fought the dreadful fight on Rudaw’s plains,</l> +<l>Where many thousand Litwin youth lay slaughtered,</l> +<l>Beside as many of the Teuton host</l> +<l>Soon reinforcements from beyond the sea</l> +<l>Came to the Germans. Kiejstut then and Walter</l> +<l>Ascended with a handful to the mountains.</l> +<l>With broken sabres and with dinted shields,</l> +<l>Covered with dust and clotted gore, they went</l> +<l>Gloomy towards home. There Walter neither +looked</l> +<l>Upon his wife, nor spoke to her one word;</l> +<l>But in the German tongue held he discourse</l> +<l>With Kiejstut and the Wajdelote. Aldona</l> +<l>Nought understood, but yet her heart forebode</l> +<l>Some dire event When ended was their council,</l> +<l>All three turned sorrowing glances on Aldona.</l> +<l>Walter looked longest, with despair’s mute gaze;</l> +<pb n="59"/> +<l>Thick-falling teardrops trickled from his eyes;</l> +<l>He fell before Aldona’s feet and pressed</l> +<l>Her hands unto his heart, and pardon begged</l> +<l>For all the things that she had suffered of him.</l> +<l><q>Woe!</q> cried he, <q rend="post: none">unto women loving madmen,</q></l> +<l>Whose hearts domestic happiness contents not.</l> +<l>Great hearts, Aldona, are like hives too large;</l> +<l>Honey can fill them not, and they become</l> +<l>The lizard’s nest. Forgive me, dear Aldona!</l> +<l>To-day I would remain at home, to-day</l> +<l>Forget all things; be we for each to-day</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">What once we used to be. To-morrow&qdash;</q> But</l> +<l>He could not finish. What joy then Aldona’s!</l> +<l>She thought, unhappy, Walter would be changed,</l> +<l>That he would live in peace and joyousness.</l> +<l>Less thoughtful did she see him, in his eyes</l> +<l>More life; she saw new colour in his cheeks;</l> +<l>And all that evening at Aldona’s feet</l> +<l>Spent Walter. Litwa, Teutons, and the war</l> +<l>He cast awhile into forgetfulness;</l> +<l>Talked of those happy times when first he came</l> +<l>To Litwa, his first converse with Aldona,</l> +<l>The first walk to the valley, and of all</l> +<l>Those childish things, but memorable to the heart,</l> +<l>Of that first love. Wherefore such sweet discourse</l> +<pb n="60"/> +<l>Must he break off with that sad word—to-morrow,</l> +<l>And plunge in thought, look long upon his wife?</l> +<l>Tears circle in his eyes. Would he then speak,</l> +<l>But dares not? Did he but invoke the feelings,</l> +<l>The memories of ancient happiness,</l> +<l>Only to bid farewell to them? Shall all</l> +<l>This evening’s converse, all its sweet caresses,</l> +<l>Be but the last, last flickerings of love’s torch?</l> +<l>’Tis vain to ask. Aldona looks and waits,</l> +<l>Uncertain. Passing from the room, she gazed</l> +<l>Still through the crannies. Walter poured out wine,</l> +<l>And emptied many cups, and near him kept</l> +<l>The hoary Wajdelote through all the night.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Scarce risen had the sun when hoofs were clattering;</l> +<l>Up with the morning mists two riders haste;</l> +<l>The guards all missed them; one eye could not miss.</l> +<l>A lover’s eyes are vigilant. Aldona</l> +<l>Had guessed their flight; she rushed into the valley.</l> +<l>Sad was that meeting. <q rend="post: none">O my love, return!</q></l> +<l>Return thou home—return! Thou must be happy,</l> +<l>Blest in embraces of thy family.</l> +<l>Thou art young and fair; comfort will soon be thine.</l> +<l>Forget me. Many princes formerly</l> +<pb n="61"/> +<l>Contended for thy hand. And thou art free,</l> +<l>Being as widow left of a great man,</l> +<l>Who for his country’s weal renounced ev’n thee!</l> +<l>Farewell! forget; but weep for me at times;</l> +<l>For Walter loses all; he doth remain</l> +<l>Lone as the lone wind in the wilderness,</l> +<l>And he must wander over all the world,</l> +<l>To plunder, murder, and at last to perish</l> +<l>By shameful death. But after vanished years</l> +<l>The name of Alf again shall sound in Litwa,</l> +<l>And from the Wajdelote’s lips thou shalt again</l> +<l>Hear of his deeds. Then, loved one, think thou +then,</l> +<l>This dreadful knight, with cloud of mystery veiled,</l> +<l>Is known to thee alone,—was once thy husband;</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">And be thy pride thy desolation’s comfort.</q></l> +<l>Silent Aldona did assent, although</l> +<l>She heard no word. <q>Thou goest! thou goest!</q> +she cried,</l> +<l>And her own anguish wrought with her own words.</l> +<l><q>Thou goest!</q> this one word sounded in her ear.</l> +<l>She framed no thought, nothing recalled; her +thoughts,</l> +<l>Her memories, her future, tangled all;</l> +<l>But guessed her heart she never could return,</l> +<pb n="62"/> +<l>Nor e’er forget. Her eyes all wandering roved,</l> +<l>And many times met Walter’s wildered look,</l> +<l>Wherein she might not find the ancient joy;</l> +<l>She seemed to seek for something new around,</l> +<l>And looked once more. ’Twas forest wilderness.</l> +<l>Beyond the Niemen ’mid the forests gleamed</l> +<l>A turret height; a convent ’twas of nuns,</l> +<l>Sad dwelling of the Christians. On this tower</l> +<l>Rested Aldona’s eyes and thoughts; the dove</l> +<l>Seized by the wind amidst a raging sea,</l> +<l>Thus falls upon an unknown vessel’s mast.</l> +<l>And Walter understood Aldona. Silent</l> +<l>He followed her, and told her his design,</l> +<l>Commanding secrecy before the world.</l> +<l>And at the doors—ah! fearful was that parting!</l> +<l>Alf rode off with the Wajdelote. Till now</l> +<l>Nought has been heard of them. But woe to him</l> +<l>If he fulfil not hitherto his vows,</l> +<l>If, having all his bliss renounced and poisoned</l> +<l>Aldona’s happiness, and sacrificed</l> +<l>So much, he still have sacrificed in vain!</l> +<l>The future shows the rest. I have ended, Germans.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>This is the end?—great murmur in the hall.</l> +<l><q rend="post: none">Who is this Walter, and what are his deeds?</q></l> +<pb n="63"/> +<l><q rend="pre: none">Where? vengeance upon whom?</q> the hearers cried.</l> +<l>The Master only, ’mid the murmuring crowd,</l> +<l>In silence sat with head bent down. He seemed</l> +<l>As deeply moved; each instant snatches cups</l> +<l>Of wine, and to the very bottom drains.</l> +<l>Upon him came a change of somewhat new,</l> +<l>Many emotions break in sudden lightnings,</l> +<l>And circle o’er his burning countenance;</l> +<l>His pale lips quiver, and his wandering eyes</l> +<l>Fly round like swallows in the midst of storm.</l> +<l>At last he cast his mantle off, and sprang</l> +<l>Into the midst. <q rend="post: none">Where is the story’s end?</q></l> +<l>Sing me at once the end or give the lute.</l> +<l>Why stand’st thou trembling? Give the lute to me.</l> +<l>Fill up the goblets; I will sing the end</l> +<l>If thou dost fear to sing it.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">I know ye. Every song the Wajdelote sings</q></l> +<l>Portendeth woe, as howls of dogs at night.</l> +<l>Murders and burnings ye delight to sing,</l> +<l>Ye leave to us—glory and sorrowing.</l> +<l>Yet in the cradle doth your traitorous song</l> +<l>Circle the infant’s breast in reptile form,</l> +<l>And cruellest poison sheds into the soul,</l> +<l>Foolish desire of praise and patriot love.</l> +<pb n="64"/> +<l><q rend="post: none">She follows hard the footsteps of a youth</q></l> +<l>Like shade of slaughtered foe, sometimes reveals</l> +<l>Herself in midst of banquets, mixing blood</l> +<l>In cups of joy. I have heard the song—too well,</l> +<l>Alas! Tis done, ’tis done! I know thee, traitor!</l> +<l>Thou winnest! War! what triumph for a poet!</l> +<l>Give to me wine; now my designs are working.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">I know the song’s end. No! I’ll sing another.</q></l> +<l>When on the mountains of Castile I fought,</l> +<l>There the Moors taught me ballads. Old man! play</l> +<l>That melody, that childish melody,</l> +<l>Which in the valley,—’twas a blessed time;</l> +<l>Unto that music did I ever sing.</l> +<l>Return at once, old man, for by all gods,</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">German or Prussian&qdash;</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>The old man must return.</l> +<l>He struck the lute, and with uncertain voice</l> +<l>Followed the savage tones of Konrad, as</l> +<l>A slave may walk behind his angry lord.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Meanwhile the lights went out upon the table.</l> +<l>The knights had slumbered at the lengthy banquet,</l> +<l>But Konrad sings, and they awake again.</l> +<l>They stand, and, in a narrow circle pressed,</l> +<l>Attentive marked the ballad’s every word.</l> +</lg> +<pb n="65"/> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-size: large'>BALLAD.</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'>ALPUJARA.</p> + +<lg> +<l>Ruined lie the Moorish cities,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Still the Moors upraise the sword;</l> +<l>In the country still resisting,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Reigns the pestilence as lord.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>And the towers of Alpujara</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Brave Almanzor still defends:</l> +<l>Floats below the Spaniard’s banner,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Siege to-morrow he intends.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Roar the guns at sunrise loudly,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Ramparts break, and crumble walls;</l> +<l>From the towers the cross gleams proudly,—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Now the Spaniard owns these halls.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Sad Almanzor views his warriors</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Slain in battle desperate;</l> +<l>Hews his way through swords and lances,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Flieth Spain’s pursuing hate.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Now the Spaniards in the fortress,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>’Mid the stones and corpses there,</l> +<l>Hold the feast and drain the wine-cup,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>And the spoils and captives share.</l> +</lg> +<pb n="66"/> +<lg> +<l>Soon the guard.without announces</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>That a stranger knight doth wait,</l> +<l>Craving for a swift admittance,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Bringing tidings of great weight</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>’Twas the vanquished Moor Almanzor.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Swift his mantle off was thrown;</l> +<l>To the Spaniards he surrenders,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>And he craves for life alone.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">I am come, ye Christian warriors,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>To submit me to your power;</l> +<l>I will serve the God of Christians,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Own your prophet from this hour,</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">Let the blast of fame, world-filling,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Say, the Arab chief o’erthrown</l> +<l>Would be brother to his victors,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'><q rend="pre: none">Vassal of a stranger’s crown.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Well the Spaniard prizes valour.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>So the great Almanzor knowing,</l> +<l>They embraced him, circled round him,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>As their true companion showing.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Each one then Almanzor greeted,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>And their captain close embraced:</l> +<pb n="67"/> +<l>Hung upon his neck, and kissed him;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Such true love their friendship graced.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>All at once his strength grew feebler,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>And he fell upon the ground;</l> +<l>But he drew the Spaniard with him,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>To his feet the turban bound.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>All with wonder looked upon him,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>And his livid visage scan;</l> +<l>Horrid smiles deformed his features,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>And with blood his eyes o’erran.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q>Christian dogs,</q> he cries, <q rend="post: none">look on me,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>If you understand this thing;</l> +<l>I deceived you, from Granada</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Come I, and the plague I bring.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">For my kiss breathed venom in ye,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>And the plague shall lay you low;</l> +<l>Come and look upon my tortures—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'><q rend="pre: none">Ye such death must undergo.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Wide he cast his eyes around him,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>As he would eternally</l> +<l>Chain all Spaniards to his bosom;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>And a horrid laugh laughed he.</l> +</lg> +<pb n="68"/> +<lg> +<l>Laughed, and died; his eyes yet open,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Open yet his lips remained:</l> +<l>In that hellish smile for ever</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Those cold features still were strained.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Fled the Spaniards from the city.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>But the plague their steps pursuing,</l> +<l>Ere they left doomed Alpujara,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 1'>Was that gallant host’s undoing.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">Thus years ago the Moors avenged themselves;</q></l> +<l>Would you the vengeance of the Litwin know?</l> +<l>What if some day it issue forth in words,</l> +<l>And come to mingle poison in the wine?</l> +<l>But no! ah, no! to-day are other customs,</l> +<l>Prince Witold; for to-day the Litwin lords</l> +<l>Come to deliver us their native land,</l> +<l>And seek for vengeance on their harassed people.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">But yet, indeed, not all—oh! no, by Perun!</q></l> +<l>There are in Litwa yet—I’ll sing yet to you!</l> +<l>Away from me that lute—a string is broken.</l> +<l>No song will be—but I do trust indeed</l> +<l>One time there will be. This day, o’er filled cups,—</l> +<pb n="69"/> +<l>I have drunk too much—rejoice yourselves and +play!</l> +<l>And thou Al—manzor, leave my sight, old man!</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">Away with Halban—leave me here alone.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>He said, and turning by uncertain way,</l> +<l>He found his place, and sank into his chair.</l> +<l>Still threatening somewhat, stamping with his foot,</l> +<l>O’erturned the table with the wine and cups.</l> +<l>At last grown weaker, he inclined his head</l> +<l>Upon the chair-arm; soon his glance was quenched;</l> +<l>His quivering lips were covered o’er with foam.</l> +<l>He slept.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The knights awhile in fixed amazement stood:</l> +<l>They knew full well Konrad’s unhappy custom;</l> +<l>How, when inflamed unto excess with wine,</l> +<l>Into wild transports and forgetfulness</l> +<l>He falls; but at a banquet, public shame!</l> +<l>Before the strangers, in such unheard rage!</l> +<l>Who thus inflamed him? Where that Wajdelote?</l> +<l>He vanished privately, none know of him.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Stories there were that Halban thus disguised</l> +<l>To Konrad that Litvanian song had sung,</l> +<pb n="70"/> +<l>To kindle by this means the zeal of Christians</l> +<l>To battle against heathenesse; but whence</l> +<l>A change so sudden in the Master? Wherefore</l> +<l>Did Witold show such angry wrath? What means</l> +<l>The Master’s strange, wild ballad? With conjectures,</l> +<l>Each vainly tries to track the hidden secret.</l> +</lg> +</div> + +<div rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n="71"/> +<index index='toc' level1='V. War.'/> +<index index='pdf' level1='V. War.'/> +<head>V.</head> +<head id='n_14'>War.<ref target='note_14' rend='superscript'>14</ref></head> +<lg> +<l>War now. For Konrad may no longer curb</l> +<l>The people’s zeal, the council’s fierce insistance:</l> +<l>The whole land calls for vengeance long delayed,</l> +<l>For Litwa’s inroad, and for Witold’s treason.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Witold, once suitor for the Order’s grace,</l> +<l>To aid recovery of his capital,</l> +<l>After the banquet, on this new report</l> +<l>That the Crusading hosts will take the field,</l> +<l>Changed measures—traitor to his recent friendship,</l> +<l>And led his knights in secrecy away.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>And in the Teuton castles on the road</l> +<l>He entered, by the Master’s forged commands;</l> +<l>And then disarming all the garrison,</l> +<l>Annihilated all with fire and sword.</l> +<l>The Order, roused with burning rage and shame,</l> +<l>Against the heathens stirred up fierce Crusade;</l> +<l>The Pope sends forth a bull,—seas, land, o’erflow</l> +<pb n="72"/> +<l>At once with swarms of warriors numberless,</l> +<l>Princes with mighty following of vassals;</l> +<l>The Red Cross decks their armour. Each his life</l> +<l>Devotes to christen pagans,—or to die.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>They went towards Litwa. What their actions +there?</l> +<l>If thou wouldst know, gaze from the ramparts' +heights,</l> +<l>Look towards Litwa, as the day declines.</l> +<l>Thou see’st a fiery blaze; the vault of heaven</l> +<l>O’er-deluged with a stream of bloody flame;</l> +<l>Behold the annals of invading war.</l> +<l>Few words relate their carnage, plunder, fire,</l> +<l>And blaze, which may rejoice the foolish crowd,</l> +<l>But in it wise men do with fear confess,</l> +<l>A voice that crieth for revenge to Heaven.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The winds blew on that dreadful fire apace,</l> +<l>The knights marched further to the heart of Litwa.</l> +<l>Report says Kowno, Wilna, are besieged.</l> +<l>Then ceased report, and couriers came no more.</l> +<l>No longer in the region flames were seen,</l> +<l>But further off the heaven’s ruddy blaze.</l> +<l>In vain the Prussians look with eager hope,</l> +<pb n="73"/> +<l>For spoils and prisoners of the conquered land;</l> +<l>In vain despatch swift couriers for the news,</l> +<l>The couriers hasten—and return no more.</l> +<l>As each this cruel doubt interpreteth,</l> +<l>He willingly would know despair itself.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The autumn passed away. The winter’s snows</l> +<l>Revelled upon the mountains, block the ways.</l> +<l>Once more upon the distant heaven shine—</l> +<l>Midnight auroras? or the fires of war?</l> +<l>And ever nearer comes the light of flames,</l> +<l>And nearer yet the heaven’s ruddy blaze.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>From Marienbourg the folk look on the road;</l> +<l>They see afar—grovelling through deepest snows,</l> +<l>Some travellers!—Konrad! And our generals!</l> +<l>How welcome them? Victors? or fugitive?</l> +<l>Where are the others? Konrad raised his hand,</l> +<l>And pointed further off a scattered crowd,</l> +<l>Alas! their very aspect told the secret!</l> +<l>They rush in disarray, plunge in the snowdrifts;</l> +<l>Roll each on each, down treading like vile insects,</l> +<l>Within a narrow vessel perishing;</l> +<l>They push o’er corpses, ever newer crowds,</l> +<l>Hurl those new risen down again to earth.</l> +<pb n="74"/> +<l>Some drag still onward chilled and stiffened limbs,</l> +<l>Some on the march have frozen to the road;</l> +<l>But with raised hands the corpses standing point</l> +<l>Straight to the town, like pillars on the way.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>The townsfolk, terror-stricken, curious ran,</l> +<l>Fearing to guess the truth they dared not ask;</l> +<l>For all the story of that luckless war</l> +<l>They in the warriors’ eyes and faces read</l> +<l>For o’er their eyes hung death in frosty shape,</l> +<l>And Famine’s harpy hollowed out their cheeks.</l> +<l>Now are the trumpets of the Litwin heard,</l> +<l>Now rolls the storm, snow whirlwinds o’er the +plain;</l> +<l>Far off a multitude of gaunt dogs howls,</l> +<l>And overhead the ravens hover round.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>All perished! Konrad has destroyed them all!</l> +<l>He, that once reaped such glory with the sword,</l> +<l>He, for his prudence formerly renowned,</l> +<l>Timid and careless in this latter war,</l> +<l>Marked not the cunning snares that Witold laid;</l> +<l>Deceived and blinded by the wish of vengeance,</l> +<l>Driving his army on the Litwin steppes,</l> +<l>Wilna thus long in sluggard guise besieged.</l> +<pb n="75"/> +<l>When plunder and provisions were consumed,</l> +<l>When hunger came upon the German camp,</l> +<l>And scattered all around, the enemy</l> +<l>Destroyed the auxiliars, cut off all supplies,</l> +<l>Each day a myriad Germans died from need.</l> +<l>Now time approached to end by storm the war,</l> +<l>Or else bethink them of a swift return.</l> +<l>Then Wallenrod, in peace and confidence,</l> +<l>Rode to the chase, or, closed within his tent,</l> +<l>Forged secret treaties, and denied his captains</l> +<l>Admission to the councils of the war.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>And thus in warlike fervour grew he cold,</l> +<l>That by his people’s tears untouched, unmoved,</l> +<l>He deigned not raise the sword in their defence;</l> +<l>All day with folded arms upon his breast,</l> +<l>In thought remaining, or discourse with Halban.</l> +<l>Meanwhile the winter piled its heaps of snow,</l> +<l>And Witold, with his fresh recruited bands,</l> +<l>Besieged the army, fell upon the camp.</l> +<l>Oh! shame in annals of the valiant Order!</l> +<l>The Master first did fly the battle-field!</l> +<l>In place of laurels, and abundant spoil,</l> +<l>He brought the news of Litwa’s victories!</l> +<pb n="76"/> +<l>Did ye but mark, when from that thunder stroke</l> +<l>He led this host of spectres to their homes,</l> +<l>What gloomy sadness darkened o’er his brow?</l> +<l>The worm of pain unwound him from his cheek,</l> +<l>And Konrad suffered; but look on his eyes!</l> +<l>That large half-open eye, bright shining throws</l> +<l>Its darts aslant, like comet threatening war;</l> +<l>Each moment changing, like the gleams of night,</l> +<l>Whereby the wily demon travellers lures.</l> +<l>Uniting joy and rabid rage in one,</l> +<l>It shone as with a right Satanic glance.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Trembled the folk and murmured. Konrad care +not.</l> +<l>He called to council the unwilling knights,</l> +<l>Looked on them, spoke, and beckoned. O disgrace!</l> +<l>They hear attentive, and believe his words.</l> +<l>They view Heaven’s judgments in the faults of man;</l> +<l>For whom of humankind persuades not—anguish.</l> +</lg> +<!--<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 10%'/>--> +<lg> +<l>Tarry, proud ruler! Judgment waits even thee!</l> +<l>In Malborg is a dungeon underground.</l> +<l>There, when the night in darkness wraps the town,</l> +<l id='n_15'>The secret tribunal descends to council.<ref target='note_15'>15</ref></l> +<pb n="77"/> +<l>One single lamp upon the high-arched roof,</l> +<l>And day and night it burns mysteriously.</l> +<l>Twelve chairs, in circle placed around a throne,—</l> +<l>Upon the throne the secret book of laws.</l> +<l>Twelve judges each in sable armour clad;</l> +<l>The visages of all inlocked by masks,</l> +<l>In dungeons hide them from the common crowd;</l> +<l>But each thus masked enshrouds him from his +fellows.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>All sworn, of their own will, with one accord,</l> +<l>Crimes of their potent rulers to chastise,</l> +<l>Too heinous, or unknown before the world.</l> +<l>And soon as falls on him the last decree,</l> +<l>Not even a brother’s trespass to condone;</l> +<l>Each must by violent or by treasonous ways,</l> +<l>On him condemned fulfil the spoken doom;</l> +<l>Dagger in hand, and rapier at their side.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>One of the maskers now approached the throne,</l> +<l>And standing with drawn sword before the book,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Spoke thus: <q rend="post: none">Tremendous judges!</q></l> +<l>Proof now our long suspicion has confirmed.</l> +<l>That man who calls him Konrad Wallenrod,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>He is not Wallenrod.</l> +<pb n="78"/> +<l>Who is he? ’Tis unknown. Twelve years ago,</l> +<l>From unknown parts he to the Rhine-land came.</l> +<l>When passed Count Wallenrod to Palestine,</l> +<l>He in the count’s train wore an esquire’s dress.</l> +<l>But soon Count Wallenrod, unknown, did perish.</l> +<l>And then his squire, suspected of his death,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Departed secretly from Palestine;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Then did he land upon the Spanish shore;</l> +<l>In battles with the Moors gave proof of valour,</l> +<l>And in the tourneys prizes rich obtained,</l> +<l>And everywhere gained fame as Wallenrod.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>He took on him at length the Order’s vows,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Was chosen Master, to the Order’s loss.</l> +<l>How ruled he, all ye know. This latter winter</l> +<l>When we with frost, famine, and Litwa fought,</l> +<l>Konrad in woods and oak-groves rode alone;</l> +<l>And there in secret held discourse with Witold.</l> +<l>Long time my spies have traced his every deed;</l> +<l>Hidden at evening by the corner tower,</l> +<l>They understood not the discourse which Konrad</l> +<l>Did hold with the recluse;—but, dreadful judges,</l> +<l>He spoke, they said, in the Litvanian tongue.</l> +<l>And weighing duly what the messengers</l> +<l>Of our tribunal of this man reported,</l> +<l>And that intelligence my spy late brought,</l> +<pb n="79"/> +<l>And fame reporteth, scarcely secretly;</l> +<l>Tremendous judges! I accuse the Master</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">Of falsehood, murder, heresy, and treason.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Here the accuser knelt before the book,</l> +<l>And laid his hand upon the crucifix;</l> +<l>And with an oath confirmed his story’s truth,</l> +<l>By God, and by the Saviour’s agony.</l> +<l>He ceased. The judges arbitrate the cause,</l> +<l>But not by open voice or still discourse;</l> +<l>Scarce by a glance of eye, or sign of hand,</l> +<l>Their deep and dreadful thought communicate.</l> +<l>Each in his turn approached him to the throne,</l> +<l>And with the dagger’s point o’erturned the leaves,</l> +<l>Of the Order’s book, and silent read the law,</l> +<l>Inquiring sentence of his conscience only.</l> +<l>And having judged, his hand lays on his heart,</l> +<l>And all in concord raised the cry of <q>Woe!</q></l> +<l>With threefold echo then the walls repeated,</l> +<l><q>Woe!</q>—In that word alone, that single word,</l> +<l>A sentence lies! The arraigners understood.</l> +<l>Twelve swords were raised aloft; one aim was +theirs—</l> +<l>Destined to Konrad’s heart. Then all departed</l> +<l>In gloomy silence, and the walls behind,</l> +<l>Repeated with a fearful echo: <q>Woe!</q></l> +</lg> +</div> +<div> +<pb n="80"/> +<index index='toc' level1='VI. The Parting.'/> +<index index='pdf' level1='VI. The Parting.'/> +<head>VI</head> +<head>The Parting.</head> +<lg> +<l><hi rend='smallcaps'>A wintry</hi> dawn, with stormy wind and snow;</l> +<l>Through storm and snow-clouds hastens Wallenrod.</l> +<l>Scarce stands he on the borders of the lake,</l> +<l>He calls aloud, striking the tower with sword.</l> +<l><q>Aldona,</q> cries he, <q rend="post: none">let us live, Aldona!</q></l> +<l>Thy lover comes; his vows are all fulfilled,</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">The foes have perished, all is now fulfilled.</q></l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>The Recluse.</p> +<lg> +<l><q rend="post: none">Alf! ’tis his voice indeed! My Alf, my love!</q></l> +<l>What! peace already! thou returnest safe?</l> +<l><q rend="pre: none">Thou goest not forth again?</q></l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Konrad.</p> +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'><q rend="post: none">For love of God,</q></l> +<l>Ask thou no tidings!—Listen, my beloved!</l> +<l>Listen, and weigh with carefulness each word,</l> +<pb n="81"/> +<l>The foes have perished. Dost thou see these fires?</l> +<l>Thou see’st? ’Tis Litwa’s havoc with the Germans.</l> +<l>A hundred years heal not the Order’s wounds,</l> +<l>I smote the hundred-headed monster’s heart.</l> +<l>Their treasures wasted, well-springs of their power,</l> +<l>Their towns in flames, a sea of blood has flowed,—</l> +<l>I caused all this! I have fulfilled my vows!</l> +<l>More fearful vengeance hell might not conceive.</l> +<l>I will no more of it—I am a man!</l> +<l>I spent my youth in foul hypocrisy,</l> +<l>In bloody, murders. Now, bent down with age,</l> +<l>Wearied of treasons, I am unfit for war.</l> +<l>Enough of vengeance. Germans, too, are men!</l> +<l>God has enlightened me. I come from Litwa,</l> +<l>And I have seen those places, seen thy castle,</l> +<l>The Kowno castle,—now it lies in ruin.</l> +<l>I turned away, urged thence my rapid course;</l> +<l>And hurried to that valley, our own valley.</l> +<l>All was as formerly! Those woods, those flowers!</l> +<l>All as it was upon that very eve,</l> +<l>When to the valley breathed we long farewell.</l> +<l>Alas! it seems to me but yesterday!</l> +<l>That stone—rememberest thou that high-raised +stone</l> +<l>Once of our rambles limit made and end?</l> +<pb n="82"/> +<l>It standeth now, though overgrown with moss;</l> +<l>Scarce might I view it, hidden thus in green.</l> +<l>I tore the herb off, watered it with tears.</l> +<l>That grassy seat, where, through the summer noon,</l> +<l>Thou didst among the maples love to rest;</l> +<l>That spring, whose waters then I sought for thee—</l> +<l>I found them all, looked on them, passed around.</l> +<l>And even thy little arbour still remains,</l> +<l>As with dry willow-twigs I fenced it in;</l> +<l>And those dry twigs, a wonder, my Aldona,</l> +<l>That once I planted in the barren sand,</l> +<l>To-day thou wouldst not know them—lovely trees,</l> +<l>And the light leaves of spring upon them wave,</l> +<l>And on them grows the youthful catkin’s down.</l> +<l>Oh! seeing these, a blessing all unknown,</l> +<l>Foreshadowing of joy, revived my heart;</l> +<l>The trees embracing, on my knees I fell</l> +<l>O God! I cried, grant all may be fulfilled!</l> +<l>Oh! may we, to our Fatherland restored,</l> +<l>When dwelling in our Litwa’s native fields,</l> +<l>Again revive to life; may leaves of hope</l> +<l>Again o’erdeck with green our destiny.</l> +<l>Let us return! consent! I rule the Order;</l> +<l>I will bid open. But what need commands?</l> +<l>For were this door a thousand times more hard</l> +<pb n="83"/> +<l>Than steel, I’d beat it down—I’d pluck it up;</l> +<l>And thee, O my beloved, to our valley,</l> +<l>There will I lead thee, raise thee with my hand.</l> +<l>Or go we further still? Litwa has deserts;</l> +<l>There lie deep shades in woods of Bialowiez,</l> +<l>Where never rings the clang of foreign swords,</l> +<l>Nor sounds the haughty victor’s signal-word—</l> +<l>No, nor the groanings of our vanquished brothers.</l> +<l>There, in the midst of silent, pastoral joy,</l> +<l>And in thine arms, and on thy bosom, let me</l> +<l>Forget that there are nations in the world;</l> +<l>Or any worlds; we for ourselves will live—</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Return, oh! speak, consent!</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>Aldona spoke not;</l> +<l>And Konrad, silent, waited yet reply:</l> +<l>Meanwhile the blood-red dawn shone forth in +heaven.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>O God! Aldona, morning is before us,</q></l> +<l>And men will wake: the guard arrest us here.</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Aldona!</q>—called he, trembling with despair.</l> +<l>No voice was his; beseeching with his eyes,</l> +<l>He lifted to the tower his claspèd hands,</l> +<l>Fell on his knees, and pity to entreat,</l> +<l>Embraced and kissed the walls of that cold tower.</l> +</lg> +<pb n="84"/> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>The Recluse.</p> +<lg> +<l><q>No, no! the time is past,</q> her sad voice spoke;</l> +<l><q rend='post: none'>But be thou tranquil, Heaven will give me strength,</q></l> +<l>The Lord will shield me from that heaviest stroke.</l> +<l>When here I came, I on the threshold swore</l> +<l>Never to leave this tower, but for the grave.</l> +<l>I wrestled with myself, and thou, my love,</l> +<l>Thou, even thou, against the Lord wouldst aid me.</l> +<l>Wouldst give back to the world a wretched +phantom?</l> +<l>Oh think! oh think! if madly I should give</l> +<l>Myself to be persuaded, leave this cave</l> +<l>And fall with rapture into thine embrace;</l> +<l>But thou wouldst know not, neither welcome me,</l> +<l>Avert thine eyes, and ask, with horror struck,</l> +<l>‘What, is this fearful spectre fair Aldona?’</l> +<l>And thou wouldst seek in this extinguished eye,</l> +<l>And in this visage her—the thought is death!</l> +<l>No, never let the poor recluse’s woe</l> +<l>Offend the beauty of the bright Aldona!</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Myself, I will confess, forgive me, love!</q></l> +<l>Oft as the moon with brighter lustre gleams,</l> +<l>Hearing thy voice, I hide behind these walls,</l> +<pb n="85"/> +<l>Unwishing, loved one, to behold thee near!</l> +<l>For thou, maybe, art not the same to-day</l> +<l>Which once thou wert, in those sweet years gone +by,</l> +<l>When with our hosts didst to our castle ride.</l> +<l>But thou retainest, hidden in my breast,</l> +<l>Those self-same eyes, that posture, form, and dress.</l> +<l>So the fair moth, within the amber drowned,</l> +<l>Retains its primal form eternally.</l> +<l>O Alf! ’twere better far that we remain</l> +<l>That which we were in former days, and as</l> +<l>We shall unite again,—but not on earth.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Leave we the beauteous valleys to the happy,</q></l> +<l>I love the stony stillness of my cell;</l> +<l>For me ’tis bliss enough to see thee living,</l> +<l>And in the evening thy loved voice to hear.</l> +<l>And in this silence, Alf, beloved, we may</l> +<l>Heal every suffering, sweeten every pang,</l> +<l>All treasons, murders, burnings, cast aside,</l> +<l>Strive thou to come but earlier and more frequent.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>If thou shouldst—listen, on these very plains,</q></l> +<l>Like to that arbour plant another bower,</l> +<l>And hither bring those willows that thou lovest,</l> +<pb n="86"/> +<l>And flowers, and even that stone from out the +valley;</l> +<l>There let the children from the hamlet near,</l> +<l>Play joyously beneath their native trees,</l> +<l>And into garlands weave their native plants;</l> +<l>Let them repeat the Lithuanian songs,</l> +<l>For native song doth meditation aid,</l> +<l>And brings me dreams of Litwa and of thee.</l> +<l>And later, later, when my life is o’er,</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Here let them sing, and on the grave of Alf.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Alf heard no longer; he, on that wild shore,</l> +<l>Wandered on aimless, without thought or will;</l> +<l>A mountain there of ice, a forest there</l> +<l>Allured him; savage sights and hasty course</l> +<l>Afforded him relief in weariness.</l> +<l>His breast was heavy in the winter rain,</l> +<l>He cast aside his mantle, coat-of-mail,</l> +<l>He tore his garments, from his breast threw off</l> +<l>All—all but sorrow!</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Now morning lighted on the city ramparts.</l> +<l>He saw an unknown shadow, stopped, and gazed—</l> +<l>The shadow further moved; with silent steps</l> +<l>It glided o’er the snow, and disappeared</l> +<pb n="87"/> +<l>Within the trenches, but a voice was heard</l> +<l>Three times that voice repeated: <q>Woe, woe, +woe!</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Alf at this voice awoke, and stood in thought</l> +<l>He thought awhile,—and understood the whole.</l> +<l>He drew his sword, and looked to every side;</l> +<l>He turned him round, searched with unquiet eye—</l> +<l>’Twas waste around; only the winter snow</l> +<l>Flew in a whirlwind, and the north wind roared</l> +<l>He looked upon the shore, he stood in grief.</l> +<l>At length with rapid stride, though tottering,</l> +<l>He came again beneath Aldona’s tower.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Far off he saw her, at the window still.</l> +<l><q>Good day!</q> he cried; <q rend='post: none'>so many, many years,</q></l> +<l>We saw each other only in the night.</l> +<l>And now good day! what happy augury!</l> +<l>The first good day after so many years!</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>And canst thou guess, wherefore I come so soon?</q></l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Aldona.</p> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>I will not guess. Farewell, belovèd friend!</q></l> +<l>The light has risen too brightly—if they knew +thee—</l> +<pb n="88"/> +<l>Cease to importune me. Farewell till evening.</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>I cannot come forth—will not</q></l> +</lg> +<p rend='text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps'>Alf.</p> +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'><q rend='post: none'>Tis too late.</q></l> +<l>Know’st thou for what I pray thee? Throw some +twig;</l> +<l>No, no, thou hast no flowers. From thy garments</l> +<l>A thread, or from thy tresses cast a lock;</l> +<l>Or throw a pebble from thy prison walls.</l> +<l>To-day I wish—all may not see to-morrow.</l> +<l>I would to-day have some remembrance of thee,</l> +<l>That lay this very morn upon thy breast,</l> +<l>And which a tear shall glow on, lately shed,</l> +<l>For I would lay it on my heart in death,</l> +<l>And bid the gift farewell with my last breath.</l> +<l>I must die shortly, swiftly, suddenly!</l> +<l>Well die together! Dost thou see that shot-hole?</l> +<l>There will I dwell. Each morning for a sign,</l> +<l>I’ll hang a black cloth on the balcony,</l> +<l>And at the grate each evening place a lamp.</l> +<l>There gaze thou steadfast. Throw I down the cloth,</l> +<l>Or if the lamp expires before its time,</l> +<l>Close thou thy window. I maybe return not.</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Farewell, beloved!</q></l> +<pb n="89"/> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>He vanished. Still Aldona</l> +<l>Gazed, bending downward from the window grate.</l> +<l>The morn had passed away, the sun had set,</l> +<l>But her white garments, dallying in the wind,</l> +<l>And arms stretched down to earth were long +beheld.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q>The sun has set at last,</q> spoke Alf to Halban,</l> +<l>And pointed from his shot-hole to the sun.</l> +<l>Within the turret, from the early morn</l> +<l>He sat, and looked upon Aldona’s window,</l> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Give me my cloak and sword. Farewell, true +friend;</q></l> +<l>I go unto the tower. Farewell for long,</l> +<l>Maybe for ever!—Listen to me, Halban.</l> +<l>If, when to-morrow day begins to gleam,</l> +<l>I come not back, leave thou this dwelling-place.</l> +<l>I will, I would give something to thy charge.</l> +<l>How lone am I! either in earth or heaven,</l> +<l>To no one, nowhere, have I aught to say</l> +<l>In my death-hour, except to her and thee!</l> +<l>Farewell unto thee, Halban; she will know it.</l> +<l>Throw down the kerchief if to-morrow morn—</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>But what is that? Dost hear? There comes a +knocking.</q></l> +<pb n="90"/> +<l><q>Who goeth there?</q> three times the sentry cried.</l> +<l><q>Woe!</q> answered many voices wild and strange.</l> +<l>Resistance none the sentry might oppose;</l> +<l>The door could not withstand the heavy shocks.</l> +<l>The invaders passed the lower galleries through,</l> +<l>And mounted up the winding iron stair</l> +<l>That led to Wallenrod’s last dwelling-place.</l> +<l>Alf with the iron bolt secured the door,</l> +<l>His sabre drew, a cup raised from the board,</l> +<l>Drew near the window. <q>It is done!</q> he cried.</l> +<l>He filled, and drank. <q>Old man, ’tis in thy hands.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Halban grew pale. With motion of his hand</l> +<l>He thought to spill the draught—he stopt in +thought.</l> +<l>The sounds aye nearer through the doors were +heard,</l> +<l>His hand relaxed. <q>’Tis they, the foes are come!</q></l> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Old man, thou knowest what this uproar means?</q></l> +<l>What are thy thoughts? Thou hast the goblet full—</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>I have drunk my portion. In thy hands, old man.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Halban gazed on in silence of despair.</l> +<l><q rend='post: none'>No, no, I will survive even thee, my son!</q></l> +<pb n="91"/> +<l>I would as yet remain to close thine eyes,</l> +<l>And live, so that the glory of thy deed,</l> +<l>I to the world may tell, to ages show.</l> +<l>I’ll traverse Litwa’s castles, hamlets, towns;</l> +<l>And where I pass not, there my song shall fly.</l> +<l>The bard shall sing them unto knights in war,</l> +<l>And women sing them for their babes at home.</l> +<l>Aye! they shall sing them, and in future days</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Some venger shall arise from out our bones.</q><note place='foot'> +<p><q><foreign lang='la'>Exoriare aliquis ex ossibus nostris ultor.</foreign></q></p> +<p rend='text-align: right'>—Æneid, B. iv. l. 625.</p> +</note></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Alf fell upon the window-sill with tears,</l> +<l>And long, long time upon the tower he gazed,</l> +<l>As though he yet his gaze would satiate</l> +<l>With those dear sights he shortly must forego.</l> +<l>He hung on Halban’s neck; they mixed their +sighs,</l> +<l>In that embrace of long and last farewell.</l> +<l>But at the bolts they heard a steely rattle,</l> +<l>And armèd men came in, and called Alf s name.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Traitor, thy head must fall beneath the sword;</q></l> +<l>Repent thee of thy sins, prepare for death!</l> +<l>Behold this old man, chaplain of the Order,</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>Cleanse thou thy soul and make a fitting end!</q></l> +<pb n="92"/> +<l>Alf stood with drawn sword ready for their coming;</l> +<l>But paler aye he grew, he bowed, and tottered,</l> +<l>Leaned on the sill; casting a haughty glance,</l> +<l>His mantle tore off, flung the Master’s badge</l> +<l>On earth, and trampled scornful under foot.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>Behold the sins committed in my life.</q></l> +<l>Ready am I to die; what will ye more?</l> +<l>The annals of my ruling will ye hear?</l> +<l>Look on these many thousands hurled to death,</l> +<l>On towns in ruins, and domains in flames.</l> +<l>Hear ye the storm-winds? clouds of snow drive on;</l> +<l>Thither your army’s remnants freeze in ice.</l> +<l>Hear ye? The hungry packs of dogs do howl,</l> +<l>They tear each other for the banquet’s remnant.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l><q rend='post: none'>I caused all this, and I am great and proud,</q></l> +<l>So many hydras’ heads one blow has felled;</l> +<l>As Samson, by once shaking of the column,</l> +<l><q rend='pre: none'>To o’er throw the temple, dying in its ruin.</q></l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>He spoke, looked on the window, and he fell.</l> +<l>But ere he fell, he cast the lamp to earth.</l> +<l>It three times glimmered with a circling blaze,</l> +<l>That rested latterly on Konrad’s brow;</l> +<pb n="93"/> +<l>And in its scattered flow the fire’s rust gleamed,</l> +<l>But ever deeper into darkness sank.</l> +<l>At length, as though it gave the sign of death,</l> +<l>One last great ring of light shot forth its blaze;</l> +<l>And in this blaze were seen the eyes of Alf,</l> +<l>All white in death, and now the light was dark.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>And at this moment through the tower walls +pierced</l> +<l id='n_16'>A sudden cry,<ref target='note_16'>16</ref> strong, lengthened, broken off—</l> +<l>From whose breast came it? Surely ye can guess</l> +<l>But he who heard it readily might tell,</l> +<l>That from the breast whence such a cry escaped,</l> +<l>Now never more should any voice come forth.</l> +<l>For this voice a whole life spoke aloud.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Thus lute strings, shuddering from a heavy stroke,</l> +<l>Vibrate and burst; in their confusèd sounds</l> +<l>They seem to voice the first notes of a song,</l> +<l>But of such song let none expect the end.</l> +</lg> +<lg> +<l>Such be my singing of Aldona’s fate.</l> +<l>Let music’s angel sing it through in heaven,</l> +<l>And thou, O tender reader, in thy soul.</l> +</lg> +</div> + +<div rend="page-break-before: always"> +<pb n='95'/> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head> +NOTES. +</head> + +<p id='note_1'><ref target='n_1'> +(1) <hi rend='italic'><q>In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +Marienbourg, in Polish Malborg, a fortified town, formerly the +capital of the Teutonic Order, under Kazimir Jagellon (1444-1492) +united to the Polish Republic; later on, given as a pledge +to the Margraves of Brandenburgh. It came at last into the +possession of the Kings of Prussia. In the vaults of the castle +were the graves of the Grand-Masters, some of which are still +preserved. +</p> + +<p id ='note_2'><ref target='n_2'> +(2) <hi rend='italic'><q>But foreign houses of his fame were full.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +Houses—so were called the convents, or rather castles, scattered +through various parts of Europe. +</p> + +<p id='note_3'><ref target='n_3'> +(3) <hi rend='italic'><q>The strife of keen-edged swords</q> = combattre à +outrance.</hi> +</ref></p> + +<p id='note_4'><ref target='n_4'> +(4) <hi rend='italic'>The Archkomtur.</hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +The Grosskomthur was the chief officer after the Grand-Master. +</p> + +<p id='note_5'><ref target='n_5'> +(5) <hi rend='italic'><q>Some unknown pious woman from afar.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +The chronicles of that time speak of a country girl, who, +having come to Marienbourg, asked to be walled up in a +solitary cell, and there ended her life. Her grave was famous +for miracles. +</p> + +<p id='note_6'><ref target='n_6'> +(6) <hi rend='italic'><q>Our master he.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +In time of election, if opinions were divided or uncertain, +similar occurrences were often taken as omens, and influenced +the decisions of the chapter. Thus Winrych Kniprode gained +all the voices, because some of the brothers heard, as though +from the tombs of the Grand-Masters, a three-fold calling: +<q>Vinrice, ordo laborat.</q> +</p> + +<p id='note_7'><ref target='n_7'> +(7) <hi rend='italic'><q>A fire eternal burns in Swentorog’s halls.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +The castle of Wilna, where formerly was maintained the +Znicz; that is, an ever-burning fire. +</p> + +<p id='note_8'><ref target='n_8'> +(8) <hi rend='italic'><q>The place was Witold’s.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +[Witold, the son of Kiejstut, after rising over the heads of the +other Lithuanian princes to the sovereignty of the whole country, +was ultimately dispossessed by his cousin Jagellon, founder of +the Jagellon dynasty, which reigned over Poland and Lithuania +from 1386 to 1572.] +</p> + +<p id='note_9'><ref target='n_9'> +(9) <hi rend='italic'>Song of the Wajdelote.</hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +The Wajdelotes, Sigonoci, Lingustoni were priests whose office +was to relate or sing to the people the acts of their forefathers at +all festivals. That the old Lithuanians and Prussians loved and +cultivated poetry is proved by the enormous number of ancient +songs, still remaining among the common people, and by the +testimony of chroniclers. We read that during a grand festival +on the occasion of the election of the Grand-Master Winrych von +Kniprode, a German Minnesinger, being honoured with applause +and a gold cup, a Prussian named Rizelus, was so encouraged +by this good reception of a poet, that he entreated for permission +to sing in his native Lithuanian tongue, and celebrated the deeds +of the first king of the Litwini, Wajdewut. The Grand-Master +and the knights, not understanding and disliking the Lithuanian +speech, ridiculed the poet, and gave him a present of a plate +of empty nutshells. In Prussia the Crusaders forbade officials +and all who approached the court to use the Lithuanian tongue, +under penalty of death; they banished from the country, together +with the Jews and gipsies, the Wajdelotes, or Lithuanian +bards, who alone knew and could relate the national annals. +Again in Lithuania, after the introduction of the Christian faith +and the Polish language, the ancient priests and the native speech +fell into disrepute, and were forgotten; thence the common +people, changed to serfs, and attached to the soil, having abandoned +the sword, also forgot those chivalric songs. Still something +has remained of their ancient annals and heroic verse, long +joined with superstition, communicated in secret to the people. +Simon Grunau, in the sixteenth century, came by accident on the +Prussians at a solemnity, and with difficulty saved his life, on promising +the peasants, that he never would reveal to any one what +he should see or hear; then, after performing sacrifice, an old Wajdelote +began to sing the deeds of the ancient Lithuanian heroes, +mingling therewith prayers and moral instructions. Grunau, +<pb n='97'/> +who well understood Lithuanian, confesses that he never expected +to hear anything similar from the lips of a Lithuanian, +such was the beauty of the theme and the phraseology. +</p> + +<p id='note_10'><ref target='n_10'> +(10) <hi rend='italic'><q>Stands visibly the pestilential maid.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +The common people in Lithuania figure pestilential air under +the form of a maiden, whose appearance, here described according +to the popular song, precedes a terrible sickness. I +quote, in substance at least, a ballad I once heard in Lithuania: +—<q>In a village appeared the maiden of the pestilence; and, after +her custom, thrusting her hand through door or window, and +waving a red cloth, scattered death through the houses. The +inhabitants shut themselves up in a state of siege, but hunger +and other necessities soon obliged them to neglect such means +of safety; all therefore awaited death. A certain gentleman, +although well provided with victuals, and able to maintain a long +while this strange siege, yet resolved to sacrifice himself for the +good of his neighbours, took a sabre of the time of the Sigismonds, +on which was the name of Jesus and the name of Mary, +and thus armed, opened the window of the house. The gentleman, +with one stroke, cut off the spectre’s hand, and got possession +of the handkerchief. It is true he died, and all his family +died; but from that time the disease was never known in the +village.</q> This handkerchief was said to be preserved in the +church, I do not recollect of what village. In the East, before +the appearance of the plague, a phantom with bats’ wings is +said to appear, and to point with its fingers at those condemned +to die. It appears as though popular imagination wished to +present, by such images, that mysterious foreboding and strange +anxiety which usually precedes great misfortune or destruction, +and which often is shared, not by individuals only, but by whole +nations. Thus in Greece were forebodings of the long duration +and terrible results of the Peloponnesian war; in the Roman +Empire of the fall of monarchy; in America of the coming of +the Spaniards. +</p> + +<p id='note_11'><ref target='n_11'> +(11) <hi rend='italic'><q>The trees of Bialowiez.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +[The trees here referred to are of an immense age and extra-ordinary +height, challenging comparison with the giant trees of +California. Many of them were venerated as divinities by the +pagans of Lithuania, in whose religion tree and serpent worship +formed a prominent feature. Oracles were supposed to be +given from a peculiar species of oak, called Baublis, ever green +both summer and winter. In the trunk of one of these, cut +down about the year 1845, there were counted 1417 rings.] +</p> + +<pb n='98'/> +<p id='note_12'><ref target='n_12'> +(12) <hi rend='italic'><q>Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +The Lithuanians used to burn prisoners of war, especially +Germans, as offerings to the gods. For this purpose was set +aside the leader, or the most distinguished of the knights for +high descent and bravery; if several had become prisoners, the +unfortunate victim was chosen by lot. For example, after the +victory of the Lithuanians over the Crusaders, in the year 1315, +Stryjkowski says: <q>And Litwa and Zmudz (Samogitia) after +this victory, and after taking abundant spoil from their conquered +and thunder-stricken foes, when they had paid to their gods +sacrifices and the accustomed prayers, burnt alive a distinguished +Crusader of the name of Gerard Rudde, the chief of the prisoners, +with the horse on which he made war, and with the armour which +he had worn, on a lofty pile of wood; and with the smoke they +sent his soul to heaven, and scattered his body to the winds with +the ashes.</q> +</p> + + +<p id='note_13'><ref target='n_13'> +(13) <hi rend='italic'><q>They gave me the name of Walter.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +Walter von Stadion, a German knight, taken prisoner by the +Lithuanians, married the daughter of Kiejstut, and with her +secretly departed from Lithuania. It frequently occurred that +Prussians and Lithuanians, carried off as children, and educated +in Germany, returned to their country, and became the bitterest +foes of the Germans. Thus the Prussian Herkus Monte was +remarkable in the annals of the Order. +</p> + +<p id='note_14'><ref target='n_14'> +(14) <hi rend='italic'>War.</hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +The picture of this war is drawn from history. [The circumstances +of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, no doubt largely +furnished the painful and realistic details in the text.] +</p> + +<p id='note_15'><ref target='n_15'> +(15) <hi rend='italic'><q>The secret tribunal descends to council.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<p> +In the Middle Ages, when powerful dukes and barons frequently +permitted themselves great crimes, when the power of +ordinary tribunals was too weak to humble them, secret brotherhoods +were formed, whose members, unknown to one another, +bound themselves by oath to punish the guilty, not pardoning +even their own friends or relatives. As soon as the secret judges +had pronounced the decree of death, the condemned man was +made aware of it, by a voice calling under his windows, or +somewhere in his presence, the word—<hi rend='italic'>Weh!</hi> (woe!) This +word, three times repeated, was a warning that he who heard +<pb n='99'/> +it should prepare for death, which he must infallibly and unexpectedly +receive from an unknown hand. The secret court +was called the <hi rend='italic'>fehm</hi> tribunal (Vehmgericht) or Westphalian. It +is difficult to determine its origin; according to some writers +it was instituted by Charlemagne. At first necessary, it gave +opportunity for many abuses later on, and governments were +forced to exercise severity occasionally against the judges themselves, +before this institution was completely overthrown. +[Scott’s graphic description in <q>Anne of Geierstein</q> of the +court and procedure of the Vehmgericht will be instantly +suggested.] +</p> + +<p id='note_16'><ref target='n_16'> +(16) <hi rend='italic'><q>A sudden cry.</q></hi> +</ref></p> + +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'><hi rend='italic'>—<q rend='post: none'>What cleaves the silent air,</q></hi></l> +<l><hi rend='italic'>So madly shrill, so passing wild?</hi></l> +<!--<milestone unit='tb' rend='dots: 5'/>--> +<l><hi rend='italic'>It was a woman’s shriek, and ne’er</hi></l> +<l><hi rend='italic'>In madlier ascents rose despair;</hi></l> +<l><hi rend='italic'>And they who heard it as it passed,</hi></l> +<l><hi rend='italic'><q rend='pre: none'>In mercy wished it were the last.</q></hi>—<hi rend='smallcaps'>Parisina</hi>.</l> +</lg> +<p> +[The coincidence, or borrowing of ideas, is manifest, but the +image has been amplified and beautified in the Polish poem.] +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>N.B.</hi>—In all the Polish words retained in the text, <hi rend='italic'>j</hi> is pronounced +like <hi rend='italic'>y</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>w</hi> like <hi rend='italic'>v</hi>. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'>PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.</p> +<p rend='text-align: center'>EDINBURGH AND LONDON.</p> +</div> + + +<div> +<pgIf output="html"> + <then> + <div> + <divGen type="footnotes" /> + </div> + </then> +</pgIf> +<pgIf output="txt"> + <then> + <div> + <divGen type="footnotes" /> + </div> + </then> +</pgIf> +</div> + +<div rend="page-break-before: right"> + <divGen type="pgfooter"/> +</div> + + </body> + <back> + </back> + </text> +</TEI.2> diff --git a/34050.txt b/34050.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b042e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/34050.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3280 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Konrad Wallenrod by Adam Mickiewicz + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: Konrad Wallenrod + +Author: Adam Mickiewicz + +Release Date: October 9, 2010 [Ebook #34050] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KONRAD WALLENROD*** + + + + + + KONRAD WALLENROD. + + An Historical Poem. + + BY + + ADAM MICKIEWICZ. + + _TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH INTO ENGLISH VERSE_ + + BY + + MISS MAUDE ASHURST BIGGS. + + "Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere... + bisogna essere volpe e leone." + + MACCHIAVELLI, _Il Principe_. + + LONDON: + + TRUeBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. + + 1882. + + _[All rights reserved]_ + + + + + +CONTENTS + + +AUTHOR'S PREFACE +TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE +Introduction. +I. The Election. +II. +III. +IV. The Festival. +V. War. +VI. The Parting. +NOTES. + + + + + + + Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co. + + _Edinburgh and London_ + + + + + +AUTHOR'S PREFACE + + +THE Lithuanian nation, formed out of the tribes of the Litwini, Prussians +and Leti, not very numerous, settled in an inextensive country, not very +fertile, long unknown to Europe, was called, about the thirteenth century, +by the incursions of its neighbours, to a more active part. When the +Prussians submitted to the swords of the Teutonic knights, the +Lithuanians, issuing from their forests and marshes, annihilated with +sword and fire the neighbouring empires, and soon became terrible in the +north. History has not as yet satisfactorily explained by what means a +nation so weak, and so long tributary to foreigners, was able all at once +to oppose and threaten all its enemies--on one side, carrying on a constant +and murderous war with the Teutonic Order; on the other, plundering +Poland, exacting tribute from Great Novgorod, and pushing itself as far as +the borders of the Wolga and the Crimean peninsula. The brightest period +of Lithuanian history occurs in the time of Olgierd and Witold, whose rule +extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea. But this monstrous empire, +having sprung up too quickly, could not create in itself internal +strength, to unite and invigorate its differing portions. The Lithuanian +nationality, spread over too large a surface of territory, lost its proper +character. The Litwini subjugated many Russian tribes, and entered into +political relations with Poland. The Slavs, long since Christians, stood +in a higher degree of civilisation, and although conquered, or threatened +by Lithuania, gained by gradual influence a moral preponderance over their +strong, but barbarous tyrants, and absorbed them, as the Chinese their +Tartar invaders. The Jagellons, and their more powerful vassals, became +Poles; many Lithuanian princes adopted the Russian religion, language, and +nationality. By these means the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ceased to be +Lithuanian; the nation proper found itself within its former boundaries, +its speech ceased to be the language of the court and nobility, and was +only preserved among the common people. Litwa presents the singular +spectacle of a people which disappeared in the immensity of its conquests, +as a brook sinks after an excessive overflow, and flows in a narrower bed +than before. + +The circumstances here mentioned are covered by some centuries. Both +Lithuania, and her cruellest enemy, the Teutonic Order, have disappeared +from the scene of political life; the relations between neighbouring +nations are entirely changed; the interests and passions which kindled the +wars of that time are now expired; even popular song has not preserved +their memory. Litwa is now entirely in the past: her history presents from +this circumstance a happy theme for poetry; so that a poet, in singing of +the events of that time, objects only of historic interest, must occupy +himself with searching into, and with artfully rendering the subject, +without summoning to his aid the interests, passions, or fashions of his +readers. For such subjects Schiller recommended poets to seek. + +"Was unsterblich im Gesang will leben, +Muss im Leben untergehen." + + + + + +TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE + + +THE Teutonic Order, originally, like the Knights Hospitallers, established +in the Holy Land about 1199, settled, after the cessation of the Crusades, +in the country bordering upon the Baltic Sea, at the mouth of the Vistula, +in the year 1225. The possession of the Baltic shores, and of such lands +as the Order should conquer from the pagan Prussians and Litwini, was +assured to them by Konrad, Duke of Masowsze, brother to Leszek the White +of Poland. The fatal error thus committed, in abandoning a hold on the +sea-coast, had afterwards a disastrous effect on the history of Poland. +The Order speedily made themselves masters of the whole country of +Prussia, and were engaged in ceaseless war with the pagans of Lithuania, +under pretext of their conversion; more frequently, it is however to be +feared, for purposes of raid and plunder. It is, in fact, upon record that +a certain Lithuanian prince, who had offered to embrace Christianity for +the purpose of recovering part of his territory conquered by the Order, +upon finding that his conversion would produce no better disposition in +them towards himself, declared his intention of abiding in paganism, with +the remark that he saw it was no question of his faith, but of his +possessions. The plundering expeditions of the Teutonic knights up +country, in which many of the chivalry of all Europe frequently bore a +part, were termed _reyses_. The English reader will remember how Chaucer's +knight had fought "aboven alle nations in Pruce." + + "In _Lettow had he reysed_ and in Ruce." + +Henry IV. also, during his banishment, fought in the ranks of the Order. + +After the conversion of Lithuania, and the union of that country with +Poland, the Teutonic knights were frequently engaged in hostilities with +both powers combined, sustaining in the year 1410 a terrible defeat at +Tannenberg in E. Prussia, from the forces of Jagellon. In this battle it +is worthy of note that the famous John Ziska was engaged. In 1466 Casimir +Jagellon inflicted heavy losses on the Order. After its secularisation in +1521, when the Grand-Master Albert embraced the reformed faith, the +domains of E. Prussia were held as a fief from Poland. In 1657 Prussia +became an independent state under Frederick William, the great Elector. It +is curious to observe how the name of Prussia, originally that of a +conquered, non-Germanic people, has become in our time that of the first +German power in the world. + +The historical circumstances on which the poem of "Konrad Wallenrod" is +founded are thus detailed at length by the author himself, in the +following postscript to the work:-- + +"We have called our story historical, for the characters of the actors, +and all the more important circumstances mentioned therein, are sketched +according to history. The contemporary chronicles, in fragmentary and +broken portions, must be filled out sometimes only by guesses and +conjectures, in order to create some historic entirety from them. Although +I have permitted myself conjectures in the history of Wallenrod, I hope to +justify them by their likeness to truth. According to the chronicle, +Konrad Wallenrod was not descended from the family of Wallenrod renowned +in Germany, though he gave himself out as a member of it. He was said to +have been born of some illicit connection. The royal chronicle says, 'Er +war ein Pfaffenkind.' Concerning the character of this singular man, we +read many and contradictory traditions. The greater number of the +chroniclers reproach him with pride, cruelty, drunkenness, severity +towards his subordinates, little zeal for religion, and even with hatred +for ecclesiastics. 'Er war ein rechter Leuteschinder (library of +Wallenrod). Nach Krieg, Zank, und Hader hat sein Herz immer gestanden; und +ob er gleich ein Gott ergebener Mensch von wegen seines Ordens sein +wollte, doch ist er allen frommen geistlichen Menschen Graueel gewesen. +(David Lucas). Er regierte nicht lange, denn Gott plagte ihn inwendig mit +dem laufenden Feuer.' On the other hand, contemporary writers ascribe to +him greatness of intellect, courage, nobility, and force of character; +since without rare qualities he could not have maintained his empire amid +universal hatred and the disasters which he brought upon the Order. Let us +now consider the proceedings of Wallenrod. When he assumed the rule of the +Order, the season appeared favourable for war with Lithuania, for Witold +had promised himself to lead the Germans to Wilna, and liberally repay +them for their assistance. Wallenrod, however, delayed to go to war; and, +what was worse, offended Witold, and reposed such careless confidence in +him, that this prince, having secretly become reconciled to Jagellon, not +only departed from Prussia, but on the road, entering the German castles, +burnt them as an enemy, and slaughtered the garrisons. In such an +unimagined change of circumstances, it was needful to neglect the war, or +undertake it with great prudence. The Grand-Master proclaimed a crusade, +wasted the treasures of the Order in preparation--5,000,000 marks--a sum at +that time immeasurable, and marched towards Lithuania. He could have +captured Wilna, if he had not wasted time in banquets and waiting for +auxiliaries. Autumn came; Wallenrod, leaving the camp without provisions, +retired in the greatest disorder to Prussia. The chroniclers and later +historians were not able to imagine the cause of this sudden departure, +not finding in contemporary circumstances any cause therefor. Some have +assigned the flight of Wallenrod to derangement of intellect. All the +contradictions mentioned in the character and conduct of our hero may be +reconciled with each other, if we suppose that he was a Lithuanian, and +that he had entered the Order to take vengeance on it; especially since +his rule gave the severest shock to the power of the Order. We suppose +that Wallenrod was Walter Stadion (see note), shortening only by some +years the time which passed between the departure of Walter from +Lithuania, and the appearance of Konrad in Marienbourg. Wallenrod died +suddenly in the year 1394; strange events were said to have accompanied +his death. 'Er starb,' says the chronicle; 'in Raserei ohne letzte +Oehlung, ohne Priestersegen, kurz vor seinem Tode wuetheten Stuerme, +Regensguesse, Wasserfluthen; die Weichsel und die Nogat durchwuehlten ihre +Daemme; hingegen wuehlten die gewaesser sich eine neue Tiefe da, wo jetzt +Pilau steht!' Halban, or, as the chroniclers call him, Doctor Leander von +Albanus, a monk, the solitary and inseparable companion of Wallenrod, +though he assumed the appearance of piety, was according to the +chroniclers a heretic, a pagan, and perhaps a wizard. Concerning Halban's +death, there are no certain accounts. Some write that he was drowned, +others that he disappeared secretly, or was carried away by demons. I have +drawn the chronicles chiefly from the works of Kotzebue, 'Preussens +Geschichte, Belege und Erlaeuterungen.' Hartknoch, in calling Wallenrod +'unsinnig,' gives a very short account of him." + +As to the conditions under which the poem was written, it is perhaps +needful to state that it was composed by Mickiewicz, during the term of +his banishment into Russia, and was first published at St. Petersburg in +the year 1828. In the character of the hero of the story, and in various +circumstances of the poem, it is impossible not to recognise the influence +of Lord Byron's poetry, which obtained so powerful an ascendency over the +works and imaginations of the Continental romanticists, and had thus an +influence over foreign literature not conceded in the poet's own country. +The Byronic character, however, presents a far nobler aspect in the hands +of the present author than in those of its original creator; for, instead +of being the outcome of a mere morbid self-concentration, and brooding +over personal wrongs, it is the result of a noble indignation for the +sufferings of others, and is conjoined with a high purpose for good, even +though such good be worked out by means in themselves doubtful or +questionable. + +We cannot pass by the subject without saying a word as to the undercurrent +of political meaning in "Konrad Wallenrod," which fortunately escaped the +rigid censorship of the Russian press. Lithuania, conquered and oppressed +by the Teutonic Order, is Poland, subjugated by Russia; and the numerous +expressions of hatred for oppressors and love of an unhappy country woven +into the substance of the narrative must be read as the utterances of a +Pole against Russian tyranny. The underhand machinations of the concealed +enemy against the state in which he is a powerful leader, may be held to +figure that intricate web of intrigue and conspiracy which Russian +liberalism is gradually weaving throughout the whole political system, and +which is daily gaining influence and power. The character of Wallenrod is +essentially the same as that of Cooper's "Spy;" but we cannot suppose that +the author intended to hold up trickery and deceit as praiseworthy and +honourable, even though it is the sad necessity of slaves to use treachery +as their only weapon; or that the Macchiavellian precept with which the +story is headed is at all intended as one to be generally followed by +seekers of political liberty against despotism. The end and aim of this, +as of all the works of Mickiewicz, is to show us a great and noble soul, +noble in spite of many errors and vices, striving to work out a high +ideal, and the fulfilment of a noble purpose; and to exhibit the heroism +of renunciation of personal ease and enjoyment for the sake of the world's +or a nation's good. + +In regard to the method used in the English version, it is only necessary +to add that as far as possible verbal accuracy in rendering has been +endeavoured after; and an attempt, at least conscientious--whether or not +partially successful must be left to the sentence of those qualified to +form an opinion--has been made to reproduce as nearly as may be something +of the original spirit In translating the main body of the narrative blank +verse has been the medium employed, not as at all representing the +beautiful and harmonious interchange of rhymes and play of rhythm so +conspicuous in the Polish lines; but as securing, by reason of freedom +from the necessity for rhymes, a truer verbal rendering, and as being the +measure par excellence best suited to English narrative verse. The +"Wajdelote's Tale" has for similar reasons been rendered into the same +form, instead of being reproduced in the original hexameter stanza, as +strange to the Polish as to the English tongue, wherein, despite the works +of Longfellow and Clough, it can hardly be said to have yet become +thoroughly naturalised. Most of the lyrics are translated into the same +metres as the originals, with the sole exception of the ballad of +Alpujara. This, as being upon a Spanish or Moorish subject, it was judged +best to render into a form nearly resembling that of the ancient Spanish +ballad, and employed by Bishop Percy in translation of the "Rio Verde," +and other poems from a like source. Moreover, the original "Alpujara" is +couched in a metre which, though extremely well suited to the Polish +tongue, is difficult of imitation in English; or only to be imitated by +great loss of accuracy in rendering. + +In concluding, the translator begs to express a hope that this humble +effort to present, however feebly, to the reading public of Great Britain +an image of the work of the greatest of Polish poets, may, not be wholly +unacceptable. Any defects which the critical eye may note, must +undoubtedly be laid rather to the charge of the copyist, than to the +original of the great master. I dare, however, to trust, that the shadow +of so great a name, and the sincere wish to contribute this slender homage +to the memory of one of Europe's most illustrious writers, may serve as an +excuse for over-presumption. + +LONDON, _March_ 1882. + + + + + + KONRAD WALLENROD + + _AN HISTORICAL TALE._ + + (FROM THE ANNALS OF LITHUANIA AND PRUSSIA.) + +"Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere... bisogna +essere volpe e leone." + + MACCHIAVELLI, _Il Principe_. + + + + + +INTRODUCTION. + + +A HUNDRED years have passed since first the Order +Waded in blood of Northern heathenesse; +The Prussian now had bent his neck to chains, +Or, yielding up his heritage, removed +With life alone. The German followed after, +Tracking the fugitive; he captive made +And murdered unto Litwa's farthest bound. + +Niemen divideth Litwa from the foe; +On one side gleam the sanctuary fanes, +And forests murmur, dwellings of the gods. +Upon the other shore the German ensign, +The cross, implanted on a hill, doth veil +Its forehead in the clouds, and stretches forth +Its threatening arms towards Litwa, as it would +Gather all lands of Palemon together, +Embrace them all, assembled 'neath its rule. + +This side, the multitude of Litwa's youth, +With _kolpak_ of the lynx-hide and in skins +Clad of the bear, the bow upon their shoulders, +Their hands all filled with darts, they prowl around, +Tracking the German wiles. On the other side, +In mail and helmet armed, the German sits +Upon his charger motionless; while fixed +His eyes upon the entrenchments of the foe, +He loads his arquebuse and counts his beads. + +And these and those alike the passage guard. +The Niemen thus, of hospitable fame, +In ancient days, uniting heritage +Of brother nations, now for them becomes +The threshold of eternity, and none, +But by foregoing liberty or life, +Cross the forbidden waters. Only now +A trailer of the Lithuanian hop, +Drawn by allurement of the Prussian poplar, +Stretches its fearless arms, as formerly, +Leaping the river, with luxuriant wreaths, +Twines with its loved one on a foreign shore. +The nightingales from Kowno's groves of oak +Still with their brethren of Zapuszczan mount, +Converse, as once, in Lithuanian speech. +Or having on free pinions 'scaped, they fly, +As guests familiar, on the neutral isles. + +And mankind?--War has severed human kind! +The ancient love of nations has departed +Into oblivion. Love by time alone +Uniteth human hearts.--Two hearts I knew. + +O Niemen! soon upon thy fords shall rush +Hosts bearing death and burning, and thy shores, +Sacred till now, the axe shall render bare +Of all their garlands; soon the cannon's roar +Shall from the gardens fright the nightingales. +Where nature with a golden chain hath bound, +The hatred of the nations shall divide; +It severs all things. But the hearts of lovers +Shall in the Wajdelote's song unite once more. + + + + + +THE ELECTION. + + +In towers of Marienbourg1 the bells are ringing, +The cannon thunder loud, the drums are beating. +This in the Order is a solemn day. +The Komturs hasten to the capital, +Where, gathered in the chapter's conclave, they, +The Holy Spirit invoked, take counsel who +Is worthiest to bear the mighty sword,-- +Into whose hands may they confide the sword? +One day, and yet another flowed away +In council; many heroes there contend. +And all alike of noble race, and all +Alike deserving in the Order's cause. +But hitherto the brethren's general voice +Placed Wallenrod the highest over all + +A stranger he, in Prussia all unknown, +But foreign houses of his fame were full2 +Following the Moors upon Castilian sierras, +The Ottoman through ocean's troubled waves, +In battle at the front, first on the wall, +To grapple vessels of the infidel +The first; and in the tourney, soon as he +Entered the lists and deigned his visor raise, +None dared with him the strife of keen-edged swords,3 +By one accord the victor's garland yielding. +But not alone amid Crusading hosts +He with the sword had glorified his youth; +For many Christian graces him adorn, +Poverty, humbleness, of earth disdain. + +But Konrad shone not in the courtly crowd +By polished speech, by well-turned reverence; +Nor e'er his sword for vile advantage sold +To service of disputing barons. He +Had consecrated to the cloister walls +His youthful years; all plaudits he disdained, +And ruler's place, even higher, sweeter meeds. +Nor minstrel's hymn, nor beauty's fair regard +Could speak to his cold spirit. Wallenrod +Listens unmoved to praise, and looks afar +On lovely cheeks, enchanting discourse flies. + +Had Nature made him thus unfeeling, proud? +Or age? For albeit young in years, his locks +Were grey already, withered were his looks, +And sufferings sealed by age.--Twere hard to guess. +He would at times divide the sports of youth, +Or listen, pleased, to sound of female tongues, +To courtiers' jests reply with other jests; +Or scatter unto ladies courteous words +With chilly smile, as dainties cast to children-- +These were rare moments of forgetfulness;-- +And speedily some light, unmeaning word, +That had no sense for others, woke in him +Passionate stirrings. These words: Fatherland, +Duty, Beloved,--the mention of Crusades, +And Litwa, all the mirth of Wallenrod +Instantly poisoned. Hearing them, again +He turned away his countenance, again +Became to all around insensible, +And buried him in thoughts mysterious. +Maybe, remembering his holy call, +He would forbid himself the sweets of earth; +The sweets of friendship only did he know, +One only friend had chosen to himself, +A saint by virtue and by holy state. +This was a hoary monk; men called him Halban. +He shared the loneliness of Wallenrod; +He was alike confessor of his soul, +And of his heart the trusted confidant +O blessed friendship! saint is he on earth, +Whom friendship with the holy ones unites. +Thus do the leaders of the Order's council +Discourse of Konrad's virtues. But one fault +Was his,--for who may spotless be from faults? +Konrad loved not the riots of the world, +Nor mingled Konrad in the drunken feast. +Though truly, in his secret chamber locked, +When weariness or sorrow tortured him, +He sought for solace in a burning draught; +And then he seemed a new form to indue, +And then his visage pallid and severe +A sickly red adorned, and his large eyes, +Erst heavenly blue, but somewhat now by time +Dulled and extinguished, shot the lightnings forth +Of ancient fires, while sighs of grief escape +From forth his breast, and with the pearly tear +The laden eyelid swells; the hand the lute +Seeks, the lips pour forth songs; the songs are sung +In speech of a strange land, but yet the hearts +Of the hearers understand them. 'Tis enough +To list that grave-like music, 'tis enough +The singer's form to contemplate, to see +Memory's inspiration on that face, +To view the lifted brows and sideward looks, +Striving to snatch some object from deep darkness. +What may the hidden thread be of the songs? +He tracketh surely, in this wandering chase, +In thought his youth through deep gulfs of the past. +Where is his soul?--In the land of memories! + +But never did that hand in music's impulse +Mere joyful tones from out the lute evoke; +And still it seemed his countenance did fear +Innocent smiles, even as deadly sins. +All strings he strikes in turn, one string except-- +Except the string of mirth;--the hearer shares +All feelings with him,--one excepted--hope! + +Not seldom him the brethren have surprised, +And marvelled at his unaccustomed change. +Konrad, aroused, did writhe himself and rage, +Had cast away the lute and ceased to sing. +He spoke out loudly impious words; to Halban +Whispered some secret things; called to the host, +Gave forth commands, and uttered dreadful threats, +On whom they knew not. All their hearts were troubled. +Old Halban tranquil sits, and on the face +Of Konrad drowns his glance,--a piercing glance, +Cold and severe, full of some secret speech. +Something he may recall, some counsel give, +Or waken grief in heart of Wallenrod, +Whose cloudy brow at once is calm again, +His eyes forego their fires, his rage is cool. + +Thus when, in public sport, the lionward, +Before assembled lords, and dames, and knights, +Unbars the grating of the iron cage. +The trumpet signal given, the royal beast +Growls from his deep breast, horror falls on all. +Alone his keeper moveth not a step, +Folds tranquilly upon his breast his hands, +And smites with power the lion,--by the eye. +With talisman of an undying soul +Unreasoning strength in bonds he doth control. + + + + + +II. + + +In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing; +Now from the hall of council to the chapel +Comes the chief Komtur, then the chiefest rulers, +The chaplain, brothers, and assembled knights. +The chapter listen vesper orisons, +And sing a hymn unto the Holy Spirit + + HYMN. + + Spirit! Thou Holy One, + Thou Dove of Sion's Hill! +This Christian world, the footstool of Thy throne, + With glory visible + Lighten, that all behold. +Thy wings o'er Sion's brotherhood unfold, +And let Thy glory shine from underneath + Thy wings, with sunlike rays. +And him, the worthiest of so holy praise, +Circle his temples with Thy golden wreath. +Fall on the visage of that son of man, +Whom shadows o'er Thy wings' protecting van. + + Thou Saviour Son! +With beckoning of Thy hand almighty, deign + To point of many one, + Worthiest to hold, +And wear the sacred symbol of Thy pain. +To lead with Peter's sword thy soldiery, + Before the eyes of heathenesse unfold + The standards of Thy heavenly empery. +Then let the sons of earth bow lowly down, +Him on whose breast the cross shall gleam to own. + +Prayers o'er, they parted. The Archkomtur4 ordered +After repose, to seek the choir again; +Again entreat that Heaven would enlighten +Chaplains and brethren, called to such election. + +So went they forth themselves to recreate +With the cool freshness of the night; and some +Sat in the castle porch, and others walk +Through gardens and through groves. The night was still; +It was the fair May season; from afar +Peeped forth the pale uncertain dawn; the moon, +Having the sapphire plains o'ercoursed, with aspect +Changing, with varying lustre in her eye, +Now in a shadowy, now a silvery cloud +Slumbering, now sank her still and tranquil head, +Like to a lover in the wilderness; +Dreaming in thought, life's circle he o'erruns, +All hopes, all sweetness, and all sufferings. +Now sheds he tears, now joyful is his glance. +At length upon his breast the weary brow +Sinketh, and falls in sense's lethargy. + +By walking other knights beguile the time, +But the Archkomtur wastes no time in vain. +He quickly summons Halban and the chiefs +Unto himself, and leads them to one side; +That, from the curious crowd afar removed, +They may pursue their counsels and impart +Forewarnings; from the castle go they forth. +They hasten to the plain. Conversing thus, +All heedless of their path, some hours astray +They wandered in the region close beside +The inlets of a tranquil lake. 'Tis morn! +This hour they should regain the capital. +They stop,--a voice,--whence? From the corner tower! +They listen,--'tis the voice of the recluse! +Long time within this tower, ten summers since, +Some unknown pious woman, from afar,5 +Who came to Mary's town,--Maybe that Heaven +Inspired her blest design, or with the balm +Of penance she would heal the wounds of conscience,-- +Did seek the shelter of a lone recluse, +And here she found while living yet a tomb. + +Long time the chaplains would not give consent. +Then, wearied by the constancy of prayers, +They gave her in this tower a shelter lone. +Scarcely the sacred threshold had she crossed, +When o'er the threshold bricks and stones were piled; +The angels only, in the judgment-day +Shall ope the door which parts her from the living. + +Above a little window and a grate, +Whereby the pious folk send nourishment, +And Heaven sends breezes and the rays of day. +Poor sinner! was it hatred of the world +Abused thy young heart to so great extreme +That thou dost fear the sun. and heaven's fair face? +Scarcely imprisoned in her living grave, +None saw her, through the window of the tower, +Receive upon her lips the wind's fresh breath, +Nor look upon the heaven in sunshine beauty, +Or the sweet flowerets on the plain of earth, +Or, dearer hundred-fold, her fellow-men. + +'Tis only known that still she is in life; +For when betimes a holy pilgrim wanders +Near her retreat by night, a sweet, low sound +Holds him awhile. Certain it is the sound +Of pious hymns. And when the village children +Together in the oak-grove sport at eve, +Then from the window shines a streak of white, +As 'twere a sunbeam from the rising dawn. +Is it an amber ringlet of her hair, +Or lustre of her slender, snowy hand +Blessing those innocent heads? The chivalry +Hear as they pass the corner tower these words: +"Thou art Konrad! Heaven! Fate is now fulfilled! +Thou shalt be Master, that thou mayest destroy them! +Will they not recognise?--Thou hid'st in vain. +Though like the serpent's were thy body changed, +Yet of the past would in thy soul remain +Many things still,--truly they cleave to me. +Though after burial thou shouldst return, +Then, even then, would the Crusaders know thee!" +The knights attend,--'tis the recluse's voice; +They look upon the grate; she bending seems, +Towards the earth she seems her arms to stretch. +To whom? The region is all desert round; +Only from far strikes an uncertain gleam, +In likeness of a steely helmet's flame, +A shadow on the earth, a knightly cloak;-- +Already it has vanished. Certainly +'Twas an illusion of the eyes, most certain +It was the rosy glance of morn that gleamed. +For morning's clouds now rolled away from earth. + +"Brothers!" spoke Halban, "give we thanks to Heaven, +For certain Heaven's decree hath led us here; +Trust we to the recluse's prophet voice. +Heard ye? She made a prophecy of Konrad,-- +Konrad, the name of valiant Wallenrod! +Let brother unto brother give the hand, +And knightly word, and in to-morrow's council +Our Master he!"6--"Agreed," they cried, "agreed!" + +And shouting went they. Far along the vale +Resounds the voice of triumph and of joy; +"Long Konrad live! long the Grand-Master live! +Long live the Order! perish heathenesse!" + +Halban remained behind, in deep thought plunged; +He on the shouters cast an eye of scorn +He looked towards the tower, and in low tones, +This song he sang, departing from the place:-- + + SONG. + +Wilija, thou parent of streams in our land, +Heaven-blue is thy visage and golden thy sand; +But, lovely Litwinka,(1) who drinkest its wave, +Far purer thy heart, and thy beauty more brave. + +Wilija, thou flowest through Kowno's fair vale, +Amid the gay tulips and narcissus pale. +At the feet of the maiden, the flower of our youth, +Than roses, than tulips, far fairer in sooth. + +The Wilija despiseth the valley of flowers, +She seeks to the Niemen, her lover, to rove; +The Litwinka listens no love-tale of ours, +The youth of the strangers has filled her with love. + +In powerful embrace doth the Niemen enfold, +And beareth o'er rocks and o'er wild deserts lone; +He presses his love to his bosom so cold, +They perish together in sea-depths unknown. + +Thee too, poor Litwinka, the stranger shall call +Away from the joys of that sweet native vale; +Thou deep in Forgetfulness' billows must fall, +But sadder thy fate, for alone thou must fail. + +For streamlet and heart by no warning are crost, +The maiden will love and the Wilija will run; +And in her loved Niemen the Wilija is lost, +In the dark prison-tower weeps the maiden undone. + + + + + +III. + + +When the Grand-Master had the sacred books +Kissed of the holy laws, and from the Komtur +Received the sword and grand cross, ensigns high +Of power, he raised his haughty brow. Although +A cloud of care weighed on him, with his eye +He scattered fire around him. In his glance +Burns exultation, half with anger mixed,-- +And, guest invisible, upon his face +Hovered a faint and transitory smile, +Like lightning which divides the morning cloud, +Boding at once the sunrise and the thunder. + +The Master's zeal, his threatening countenance, +All hearts with hope and newer courage fills; +Battle before them they behold and plunder, +And pour in thought great floods of pagan blood. +Who shall against such ruler dare to stand? +Who will not fear his sabre or his glance? +Tremble, Litwini! for the time is near, +From Wilna's ramparts when the cross shall shine. + +Vain are their hopes, for days and weeks flew by; +In peace a whole long year has flowed away, +And Litwa threatens. Wallenrod, ignobly +Himself nor combats, nor goes out to war; +And when he rouses and begins to act, +Reverses the old ruling suddenly. + +He cries, "The Order has o'erstepped its laws, +The brethren violate their plighted vows. +Let us engage in prayer, renounce our treasures, +And seek in virtue and in peace renown." +To penance he compels them, fasts, and burdens; +Denies all pleasures, comforts innocent; +Each venial sin doth cruelly chastise +With dungeons underground, exile, the sword. + +Meanwhile the Litwin, who long years afar +Had shunned the portals of the Order's town, +Now burns the villages around each night, +And captive their defenceless people takes. +Beneath the very castle proudly boasts, +He in the Master's chapel goes to mass. +And children trembled on their parents' threshold, +To hear the roar of Samogitia's horn. + +What time were better to begin a war +While Litwa by internal strife is torn? +Here the bold Rusin,(2) here the unquiet Lach,(3) +The Crimean Khans lead on a mighty host; +And Witold, by Jagellon dispossessed, +Has come to seek protection of the Order; +In recompense doth promise gold and land, +But hitherto for help he waits in vain. + +The brothers murmur, council now assembles, +The Master is not seen. Old Halban hastes, +But in the castle, in the chapel finds +Not Konrad. Whither is he? At the tower! +The brotherhood have tracked his steps by night. +'Tis known to all; for at the evening hour, +When all the earth is veiled with thickest mists, +He sallies forth to wander by the lake. +Or on his knees, supported by the wall, +Draped in his mantle, till the white dawn gleams, +He lieth, moveless as a marble form, +And unsubdued by sleep the whole night long. +Oft at the soft voice of the fair recluse +He rises, and returns her low replies. +No ear their import can discern afar; +But from the lustre of the shaking helm, +View of the lifted head, unquiet hands, +'Tis seen some discourse pends of weighty things. + + SONG FROM THE TOWER. + +Ah! who shall number all my tears and sighs? +Have I so long wept through these weary years? +Was such great bitterness in heart and eyes, +That all this grate is rusty with my tears? +Where falls the tear it penetrates the stone, +As in a good man's heart 'twere sinking down. + +A fire eternal burns in Swentorog's halls;7 +Its pious priests for ever feed the fire: +From Mendog's hill a fount eternal falls; +The snows and storm-clouds swell it ever higher. +None feed the torrent of my sighs and tears, +Yet pain for ever heart and eyeballs sears. + +A father's care, a mother's tender love, +And a rich castle and a joyous land, +Days without longing, nights no dream might move +Peace like a tranquil angel aye did stand +Near me, abroad, at home, by day and night, +Guarding me close, though viewless to the sight. + +Three lovely daughters from one mother born, +And I the first demanded as a bride; +Happy in youth, happy in joys to be, +Who told me there were other joys beside? +O lovely youth! why didst thou tell me more +Than e'er in Litwa any knew before? + +Of the great God, of angels bright as day, +Of stone-built cities where religion rests, +Where in rich churches all the people pray, +Where princely lords obey their maidens' hests; +Like to our warriors great in warlike pains, +Tender in love as are our shepherd swains. + +Where man, from covering of clay set free, +A winged soul, flies through a joyful heaven. +I could believe it, for in listening thee +I had a foretaste of those wonders even. +Ah! since that time, in good and evil plight, +I dream of thee and those fair heavens bright. + +The cross upon thy breast rejoiced mine eyes; +The sign of future bliss therein I read. +Alas! when from the cross the thunder flies, +All things around are silenced, perished. +Nought I regret, though bitter tears I pour; +Thou tookest all from me, but hope leftst o'er. + +"Hope!" the low echoes from the shore replied, +The valleys and the forest Konrad woke, +And laughing wildly, answered, "Where am I? +To hear in this place--hope? Wherefore this song? +I do recall thy vanished happiness. +Three lovely daughters from one mother born, +And thou the first demanded as a bride. +Woe unto you, fair flowers! woe to you! +A fearful viper crept into the garden, +And where the reptile's livid breast has touched +The grass is withered and the roses fade, +And yellow as the reptile's bosom grow. +Fly from the present in thought; recall the days +Which thou hadst spent in joyousness without-- +Thou'rt silent! Raise thy voice again and curse; +Let not the dreadful tear which pierces stones +Perish in vain. My helmet I'll remove. +Here let it fall; I am prepared to suffer; +Would learn betimes what waiteth me in hell. + + VOICE FROM THE TOWER. + +Pardon, my loved one, pardon! I am guilty! +Late was thy coming, weary 'twas to wait, +And thus, despite myself, some childish song-- +Away with it! What have I to regret? +With thee, my love, with thee a passing space +We lived through; but the memory of that time +I would not change with all earth's habitants, +For tranquil life passed through in weariness. +Thyself didst say to me that common men +Are as those shells deep hidden in the marsh; +Scarce once a year by some tempestuous wave +Cast up, they peep from out the troubled water, +Open their lips, and sigh forth once towards heaven, +And to their burial once more return. +No! I am not created for such bliss. +While yet within my Fatherland I dwelt +A still life, sometimes in my comrades' midst +A longing seized me, and I sighed in secret, +And felt unquiet throbbings in my heart; +And sometimes fled I from the lower plain, +And standing on the higher hill, I thought, +If but the larks would give me from their wings +One feather only, I would fly with them, +And only from this mountain wish to pluck +One little flower, the flower forget-me-not, +And then afar beyond the clouds to fly +Higher and higher, and to disappear! +And thou didst hear me! Thou, with eagle pinions, +Monarch of birds, didst raise me to thyself. +O now, ye larks, I beg for nought from you, +For whither should she fly, what pleasures seek, +Who has the great God learned to know in heaven, +And loved a great man on this lower world? + + KONRAD. + +Greatness, and greatness yet again, mine angel! +Greatness for which we groan in misery! +A few days still,--let it torment the heart,-- +A few days only, fewer already are. +'Tis done! 'Tis vain to grieve for vanished time. +Aye! let us weep, but let our proud foes tremble! +For Konrad wept, but 'twas to murder them! +But wherefore cam'st thou here--wherefore, my love? +Unto God's service did I vow myself. +Was it not better in His holy walls, +Afar from me to live and die than here, +In the land of lying and of murderous war, +In this tower-grave by long and painful tortures +To expire, and open solitary eyes, +And through the unbroken fetters of this grate +Implore for help, and I be forced to hear, +To look upon the torture of long death, +Standing afar, and curse my very soul, +That harbours relics yet of tenderness? + + VOICE FROM THE TOWER. + +If thou lamentest, hither come no more! +Though thou shouldst come, with burning zeal implore, +Thou shouldst hear nought. My window now I close, +Descend once more into my prison darkness. +Let me in silence drink my bitter tears. +Farewell for aye, farewell, my only one! +And let the memory perish of this hour, +Wherein thou didst no pity for me show. + + KONRAD. + +Then thou have pity! for thou art an angel! +Stay! But if prayer is powerless to restrain, +On the tower's angle will I strike my head; +I will implore thee by the death of Cain. + + VOICE FROM THE TOWER. + +O let us both have pity on ourselves! +My love, remember, great as is this world, +Two of us only on this mighty earth, +Upon the seas of sand two drops of dew. +Scarce breathes a little wind, from the earthly vale +For aye we vanish--ah! together perish! +I came not here for this, to torture thee. +I would not on me take the holy vows, +Because I dared not pledge my heart to Heaven, +While yet in it an earthly lover reigned. +I in the cloister would remain, and humbly +Devote my days to service of the nuns. +But there without thee, everything around +Was all so new, so wild, so strange to me! +Remembering then that after many years, +Thou shouldst return again to Mary's town +To seek for vengeance on the enemy, +The cause defending of a hapless folk, +I said unto myself, "Who waits long years +Shortens with thoughts; maybe he now returns, +Maybe is come. Is it not free to ask, +Though living I immure me in the grave, +That once more I may look upon thy face, +That I at least may perish near to thee? +And therefore to the hermit's narrow house +Upon the road, upon the broken rock, +I will betake me, and enclose myself. +Some knight maybe, in passing by my hut, +May speak aloud by chance my loved one's name; +Among the foreign helmets I may view +His crest; though changed the fashion of his arms, +Although a strange device adorn his shield, +Although his face be changed, even then my heart +Will recognise my lover from afar. +And when a heavy duty him compels +To shed the blood of all and to destroy, +And all shall curse him, one heart yet alone +Shall dare afar to bless him." Here I chose +My habitation and my grave apart, +In silence, where the sacrilege of groans +The traveller dare not listen. Thou, I know, +Lovest to walk alone. Within myself +I thought, "Maybe at even he will come, +Having his comrades left behind, to hold +Converse with winds and billows of the lake; +And he will think of me and hear my voice." +And Heaven did fulfil my innocent wish. +Thou earnest; thou didst understand my song. +I prayed in former times that dreams might bless +Me with thine image, though the form were mute: +To-day, what happiness! To-day, together,-- +Together we may weep! + + KONRAD. + + And wherefore weep? +I wept, thou dost remember, when I tore +Myself for ever from thy dear embrace, +And of my free will died from happiness, +That thus I might designs of blood fulfil. +That too long martyrdom at length is crowned. +Now stand I at the summit of desires; +I can revenge me on the enemy. +And thou hast come to tear my victory from me! +Till now, when from the window of thy turret +Thou didst look on me, in the world's whole circle +Again there seemed no thing to meet my eye, +But the lake only, and the tower and grate. +Around me all with tumult seethes of war. +'Mid trumpet clamour, 'mid the clash of arms, +I seek impatient with a straining ear, +For the angelic sound of thy sweet lips, +And all the day for me is waiting hope. +And when the evening season I have reached, +I wish to lengthen it by memories: +I reckon by its evenings all my life. +Meanwhile the Order murmurs at repose, +Entreat for war, demand their own perdition; +And vengeful Halban will not let me breathe, +But still recalls to me those ancient vows, +The slaughtered hamlets, and the lands destroyed; +Or if I will not listen his reproaches, +He with one sigh, one glance, one beckoning, +Can blow my smouldering vengeance to a flame. +Now seems my destiny to near its end; +Nought the Crusaders can withhold from war. +A messenger from Rome came yesterday. +From the world's every quarter, clouds unnumbered +A pious zeal hath gathered in the field, +And all call out to me to lead them on +With sword and cross upon the walls of Wilna. +And yet--with shame I must confess--ev'n now, +While destinies of mighty nations pend, +I think of thee, and still invent delays, +That we may pass together one more day. +O youth! how fearful was thy sacrifice! +When young, love, happiness, a very heaven, +I for a nation's cause could sacrifice +With grief, but courage;--and to-day, grown old,-- +To-day despair, my duty, and God's will +Compel me to the field, and still I dare not +Tear my grey head from these walls' pedestal, +That I may not forego thy sweet conversing. + +He ceased. Groans only issued from the tower. +Long hours flowed by in silence. Now the night +Reddened, and now the water's stilly face +Blushed with the ray of dawn. Among the leaves +Of sleeping bushes with a rustling murmur +The morning freshness flew. The birds awoke +With their soft notes, then once again they ceased, +And by long-during silence gave to know +They had too early woken. Konrad rose, +Lifted his eyes unto the tower, and looked +With anguish on the grate. The nightingale +Awoke in song, then Konrad looked around. +'Tis morning! and he let his visor down, +And in his cloak's wide folds concealed his face. +With beckoning of his hand he signs adieu, +And in the bushes how is lost + Ev'n thus, +A spirit infernal from a hermit's door +Doth vanish at the sound of matin bell. + + + + + +IV. + + +THE FESTIVAL. + + +IT was the Patron's day, a solemn feast; +Komturs and brethren to the city ride; +White banners wave upon the castle towers: +Konrad invites the knights to festival. + +A hundred white cloaks wave around the board, +On every mantle is the long black cross,--These +are the brethren, and behind them stand +The young esquires to serve them, in a ring. + +Konrad sat at the top; upon his left +The place was Witold's,8 with his leaders brave,-- +One time their foe, to-day the Order's guest, +Leagued against Litwa as their firm ally. + +The Master, rising, gives the festal word, +"Rejoice we in the Lord!" The goblets gleamed. +"Rejoice we in the Lord!" cried thousand voices. +The silver shone, the wine poured forth in streams. + +Silent sat Wallenrod, upon his elbow +Leaning, and heard with scorn the unseemly noise. +The uproar ceased; scarcely low-spoken jests +Alternate here and there the cup's light clash. + +"Let us rejoice," he says. "How now, my brethren! +Beseems it valiant knights to thus rejoice? +One time a drunken clamour, now low murmurs? +Must we then feast like bandits or like monks? + +"There were far other customs in my time, +When on the battlefield with corpses piled, +On Castile's mountains or in Finland's woods, +We drank beside the camp-fire. + + "Those were songs! +Is there no bard, no minstrel in the crowd? +Wine maketh glad indeed the heart of man, +But song it is that forms the spirit's wine." + +Then various singers all at once arose; +A fat Italian here, with birdlike tones, +Sings Konrad's valour and great piety; +And there a troubadour from the Garonne, +The stories of enamoured shepherds sings, +Of maids enchanted and of wandering knights. + +Wallenrod slept;--meanwhile the songs are o'er. +Awakened sudden by the loss of sound, +He to the Italian cast a purse of gold. +"To me alone," he said, "thou didst sing praise. +Another may not give thee recompense; +Take and depart. Let that young troubadour, +Who serveth youth and beauty, pardon us +That in the knightly throng we have no damsel, +To fasten a vain rosebud to his breast + +The roses here are faded. I would have +Another bard,--the cloister knight desires +Another song; but be it wild and harsh, +Like to the voice of horns, the clash of swords. +And be it gloomy as the cloister walls, +And fiery as a solitary drunkard. + +"Of us, who sanctify and murder men, +Let song of murderous tone proclaim the saintship, +And melt our heart, and rouse to rage,--and weary; +And let it then again affright the weary. +Such is our life, and such our song should be; +Who then will sing it?" + + "I," replied an old +And venerable man, who near the door +Sat 'mid the squires and pages, by his robe +Prussian or Litwin. Thick his beard, by age +Whitened; the last grey hairs wave on his head; +His brow and eyes are covered by a veil; +Sufferings and years are graven on his face. + +He bore in his right hand a Prussian lute, +But towards the table stretched his left hand forth, +And by this sign entreated audience. +All then were silent. + "I will sing," he cried. +"Once sang I to the Prussians and to Litwa; +Some now have perished in their land's defence; +Others will not outlive their country's loss, +But rather slay themselves upon her corse; +As servants true, in good and evil lot, +Will perish on their benefactor's pile. +Others more shamefully in forests hide; +Others, like Witold, dwell among you here. + +"But after death?--Germans! ye know full well. +Ask of the wicked traitors to their land +What, they shall do when, in that further world, +Condemned to burning of eternal fires, +They would their ancestors invoke from paradise? +What language shall entreat them for their aid? +If in their German, their barbaric speech, +The forefathers will know their children's voice. + +"O children! what a foul disgrace for Litwa, +That none of you, aye, none, defended me, +When from the shrine, the hoary Wajdelote,(4) +Away they dragged me into German chains! +Alone in foreign lands have I grown old. +A singer!--alas! to no one can I sing! +On Litwa looking, I wept out mine eyes. +To-day, if I would sigh towards my home, +I know not where that home beloved lies, +If here, or there, or in another place. + +"Here only, in my heart, have I preserved +That in my Fatherland my best possession; +And these poor remnants of my former treasure +You Germans take from me,--take memory from me! + +"As a defeated knight in tournament +Escapes with life though honour has been lost; +And, dragging out despised days in scorn, +Returns once more unto his conqueror; +And for the last time straining forth his arm, +Breaketh his sword beneath the victor's feet,-- +So my last failing courage me inspires; +Yet once more to the lute my hand is bold; +Let the last Wajdelote of Litwa sing +Litwa's last song!" + He ended, and awaited +The Master's answer. All in silence deep +Await. With mockery and with curious eye +Konrad tracks Witold's every look and motion. + +They noted all how when the Wajdelote +Of traitors spoke, a change o'er Witold came. +Livid he grew and pale again he blushed, +Alike tormented by his rage and shame. +At last, his sabre casting from his side, +He goes, dividing all the astonished crowd. +He looked upon the old man, stayed his steps; +The clouds of anger hanging o'er his brow +Fell sudden in a rapid flood of tears; +He turned, sat down, with cloak he veiled his face, +And into secret meditation plunged + +The Germans whispered, "Shall we to our feasts +Admit old beggars? Who will hear the song, +And who will understand?" Such voices were +Among the crowd of revellers, and broken +By constant peals of ever-growing laughter. +The pages cry, whistling on nuts, "Behold! +This is the tune of the Litvanian song." + +Upon that Konrad rose. "Ye valiant knights! +To-day the Order, by a solemn custom, +Receiveth gifts from princes and from towns, +As homage from a conquered country due. +The beggar brings a song as offering +To you: forbid we not the old man's homage. +Take we the song; 'twill be the widow's mite. + +"Among us we behold the Litwin prince; +His captains are the Order's guests: to him +Sweet will it be to list the memory +Of ancient deeds, recalled in native speech. +Who understands not, let him go from hence. +I love betimes to hear the gloomy groans +Of those Litvanian songs, not understood, +Even as I love the noise of warring waves, +Or the soft murmur of the rain in spring;-- +Sweetly they charm to sleep. Sing, ancient bard!" + + SONG OF THE WAJDELOTE.9 + +When over Litwa cometh plague and death, +The bard's prophetic eye beholds, afraid. +If to the Wajdelote's word be given faith, +On desert plains and churchyards, sayeth fame, +Stands visibly the pestilential maid,10 +In white, upon her brow a wreath of flame,-- +Her brow the trees of Bialowiez11 outbraves,-- +And in her hand a blood-stained cloth she waves. + +The castle guards in terror veil their eyes, +The peasants' dogs, deep burrowing in the ground, +Scent death approaching, howl with fearful cries + +The maid's ill-boding step, o'er all is found; +O'er hamlets, castles, and rich towns she goes. +Oft as she waves the bloody cloth, no less +A palace changes to a wilderness; +Where treads her foot a recent grave up-grows. + +O woeful sight! But yet a heavier doom +Foretold to Litwa from the German side,-- +The shining helmet with the ostrich plume, +And the wide mantle with the black cross dyed. + +For where that spectre's fearful step has passed, +Nought is a hamlet's ruin or a town, +But a whole country to the grave is cast +O thou to whom is Litwa's spirit dear! +Come, on the graves of nations sit we down; +We'll meditate, and sing, and shed the tear. + +O native song! between the elder day, +Ark of the Covenant, and younger times, +Wherein their heroes' swords the people lay, +Their flowers of thought and web of native rhymes. + +Thou ark! no stroke can break thee or subdue, +While thine own people hold thee not debased. +O native song! thou art as guardian placed, +Defending memories of a nation's word. +The Archangel's wings are thine, his voice thine too, +And often wieldest thou Archangel's sword. + +The flame devoureth story's pictured words, +And thieves with steel wide scatter treasure hoards. +But scatheless is the song the poet sings. +And should vile spirits still refuse to give +Sorrow and hope, whereby the song may live, +Upward she flieth and to ruins clings, +And thence relateth ancient histories. +The nightingale from burning dwellings flits, +But on the roof, a moment yet she sits; +When falls the roof she to the forest flies, +And from her laden breast o'er dying embers, +Sings a low dirge the passer-by remembers. + +I heard the song! An ancient peasant swain, +When over bones his iron ploughshare rang, +Stood, and on flute of willow played a strain, +Prayers for the dead, or, with a rhymed lament, +Of you, great childless fathers, then he sang. +The echoes answered. I from far did hear, +And sorrow brought the sight and song more near; +In eyes and ears my spirit all was bent. + +As on the judgment-day the dead past all +The Archangel's trumpet from the tomb shall call, +So from the song the dead bones upward grew +To giant forms, from sleep of death awake, +Pillars and arches from their ruin anew, +And countless oars splashed in the desert lake; +And soon the castle-gates wide open seemed, +And princes' crowns and warriors' armour gleamed. +Now sing the bards, the dance the maidens weave; +I dreamed of marvels,--and awoke to grieve. + +Forests and native hills are vanished, +And thought doth fail, on weary pinions fled, +And sinketh in a hidden stillness drear. +The lute is silent in my stiffened hand, +And 'mid the groan of comrades of my land, +The voices of the past I may not hear. +Still something of that youthful fire once mine +Smoulders within me, and at times its light +Wakens the soul and maketh memory bright. +Then memory, like a lamp of crystalline, +The pencil has with painted colours decked, +Although by dust bedimmed, with scars beflecked; +Place but within its heart a little light, +With freshness of its colours eyes are lured, +On palace walls yet gleaming fair and bright, +Lovely, though yet with dusty cloud obscured. + +O could I but this fire of mine impart +To all my hearers' breasts, the shapes upraise +Of those dead times, and reach the very heart +Of all my brothers with my burning lays! +But haply even in this passing hour, +Now when their native song their hearts can move, +The pulses of those hearts may beat more strong, +Their souls may feel the ancient pride and love; +And live one moment in such noble power, +As lived their forefathers their whole life long. + +But why invoke the ages long gone by, +And for the present's glory find no voice? +For in your midst a great man liveth nigh-- +I sing of him. Ye, Litwini, rejoice! + +Silent the old man was, and hearkened round, +If still the Germans will permit his song. +Around the hall there reigned a silence deep; +This warms all poets to a newer zeal. +Once more he raised his song, but other theme; +O'er freer cadences his voice did range. +More rarely he, and lighter, touched the strings, +Descending from the hymn to simple story. + + THE WAJDELOTE'S TALE. + +Whence come the Litwins? From a nightly sally; +From church and castle they have won rich spoils, +And crowds of German slaves with fettered hands, +Ropes on their necks, follow the victors' steeds. +They look towards Prussia and dissolve in tears, +On Kowno look, commend their souls to God. +In midst of Kowno stretches Perun's plain; +The Litwin princes, there returned from conquest, +Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.12 +Two captive knights untroubled ride to Kowno, +One fair and young, the other bowed with years. +They in the battle left the German troops, +Fled to the Litwins. Kiejstut did receive them, +But led them to the castle under guard. +He asks their race, with what intent they come. +"I know not," said the youth, "my race or name; +In childhood was I made the Germans' captive. +I recollect alone, somewhere in Litwa, +Amid a great town stood my father's house. +It was a wooden town on lofty hills, +The house was of red brick. Around the hills +Murmured a wood of fir-trees on the plains; +Among the woods a white lake gleamed afar. +One night a shout aroused us from our sleep; +A fiery day dawned in the window, shook +The window-panes, and whirling wreaths of smoke +Burst forth within the house. We to the door. +Flames curled through all the streets, sparks fell like hail. +A horrid cry arose, 'To arms! the Germans +Are in the town! to arms!' My father rushed +Forth with his sword,--rushed forth--returned no more! +The Germans poured into the house. One seized me +And caught me to his saddle. What came further +I know not; but long, long my mother's shrieks +I heard 'mid clash of swords, 'mid fall of houses. +This cry long followed me, stayed in my ear; +Even now when I view flames and falling houses, +This cry wakes in my soul as echo wakes +In caverns after thunder's voice. Behold +My memories all of Litwa and my parents. +Sometimes in dreams I view the honoured forms +Of mother, father, brethren; but anew +Some cloud mysterious veils their features o'er, +Thicker and darker growing evermore. +The years of childhood passed away. I lived +A German among Germans, and they gave me +The name of Walter,13 Alf thereto as surname. +German the name, my soul remained Litvanian; +Grief for my parents, for the strangers hatred +Remained. The Master Winrych in his palace +Reared me, himself did hold me to the font, +Loved and caressed me as his very son. +But weary in his palace, from his knees +I fled unto the Wajdelote. That time +Among the Germans was a Litwin bard, +Captive for many years,--interpreter, +He served the army. When he heard of me +That I was orphan and Litvanian, +He told of Litwa, cheered my longing soul +With his caresses, song, and with the sound +Of the Litvanian speech. He often led me +To the grey Niemen's shores; from thence I joyed +To look upon my country's well-loved mountains. +And when unto the castle we returned, +He dried my tears to waken no suspicion: +He dried my tears, but kindled in me vengeance +Against the Germans. I remember well +How, when we came again into the castle, +I sharpened secretly a knife, with what +Delight of vengeance cut I Winrych's carpets, +Or broke his mirrors, on his shining shield +Flung sand, or spit upon it. Later on, +When grown near manhood, from Klajpedo's port +I sailed with the old man to view the shores +Of Litwa. There I plucked my country's flowers; +Their magic fragrance woke within my soul +Some ancient, dark remembrance. With the fragrance +Intoxicated, seemed me that a child +Once more I grew, and in my parents' garden, +Played with my little brothers. The old man +Assisted memory with his words, more lovely +Than herbs and flowers,--painted the happy past, +How sweet in native land 'mid friends and kin +To pass one's youth, how many Litwin children +Knew not such bliss, in the Order's fetters weeping. +I heard this on the plains, but on the beach, +Where the white billows break with roaring breasts, +And from their foamy throat cast streams of sand, +'Thou seest,' the old man then was used to say, +'The grassy carpet of this seaboard meadow. +The sand blows over it. These fragrant herbs, +Thou seest, would pierce the deadly covering, +By their brow's strength. In vain, alas! for now +Another hydra comes of gravel-dust, +Spreads its white fins, subdues the living lands, +Stretching its kingdom of wild desert round. +My son! the gifts of spring are living cast +Into the grave. Behold! they are conquered peoples, +Our brothers the Litwini! Son, this sand +Storm-driven from the sea, it is the Order.' +My heart did pain me hearing, and I longed +To murder all Crusaders, or to fly +To Litwa; but the old man checked my zeal. +'To free knights,' said he, 'it is free to choose' +Their weapon, and with equal strength to fight +in open field. Thou art a slave; the only +Weapon that slaves may use is treachery. +Remain awhile and learn the Germans' war-craft; +Try thou to gain their confidence; we later +Shall see what thing to do.' I was obedient +Unto the old man's words--went with the Germans. +But in the first fight, scarce I viewed the standards, +Scarce did I hear my, nation's songs of war, +I sprang unto our own,--led the old man with me. +As the young falcon, severed from his nest, +And nourished in a cage, although the fowlers +By cruel torments strip him of his reason, +And send him forth to war on brother-falcons; +Soon as he rises 'mid the clouds, soon as +His eyes o'erstretch the far unmeasured plains +Of his blue Fatherland, he breathes free air, +And hears the rustle of his wings.--Return +Unto thy home, O fowler! do not wait +To see the falcon in his narrow cage." + +The youth made end; with wonder Kiejstut heard, +And listened also Kiejstut's daughter fair, +Aldona, young and lovely as a goddess. +The autumn passes, therewith evenings lengthen; +And Kiejstut's daughter, as accustomed, sits +Among her sisters and her comrades' train, +Weaves at the loom or spins the distaff thread; +But as the needles fly or spindles turn, +Walter stands by and telleth wondrous tales, +About the German countries and his youth. +The damsel seizes all that Walter speaks, +Her soul, insatiable, devours all things; +She knows them all by heart, repeats in dreams. +Walter related of the castle halls, +Great towns beyond the Niemen, what rich dresses, +What splendid pastimes; how in tourney knights +Break lances, and the damsels look upon them +Down from their galleries, and adjudge the prize. +He spoke of the great God who rules beyond +The Niemen, and His Son's Immaculate Mother, +Whose angel form he showed in wondrous picture. +This picture piously adorned his breast; +The youth now gave it to the fair Litwinka, +The day he brought her to the holy faith, +When he prayed with her;--he would teach her all +He knew himself. Alas! he taught her too +That which as yet he knew not,--taught her love. +And he himself learned much. With what delight +He from her lips the half-forgotten words +Heard of Litvanian speech. New feelings rose +With each new-risen word like sparks from ashes. +Sweet were the names of family, of friendship, +And sweeter yet than all the name of love, +Which no word equals here on earth, but--country. + +"Whence," Kiejstut thought, "my daughters sudden change? +Where is her former mirth, her childish sports? +On holidays all maidens join in dance; +She sits alone, or converse holds with Walter. +On other days the needle or the loom +Engage the damsels; from her hands the needle +Falls, and the threads are tangled in the loom. +She sees not what she does; all tell me so. +And yesterday, I marked she sewed a rose, +The flowers with green, the leaves with rosy silk. +How could she know this, when her eyes and thoughts +Seek only Walter's eyes, seek his discourse? +Oft as I ask, 'Where goes she?' 'To the valley.' +'Whence comes she?' 'From the valley.' 'What is there?' +'The youth has made in it a garden for her.' +What! is that garden fairer than my orchards? +(For Kiejstut owned proud orchards full of apples +And pears, allurement of the Kowno damsels.) +'Tis not the garden lures her. I have marked +Her windows in the winter; all the panes +Which look on Niemen clear are as in May; +The frost has not obscured the crystal glass. +Thence Walter comes. She sat beside the window, +And with her burning sighs did melt the ice. +I thought, he teaches her to read and write, +Hearing all princes now instruct their children,-- +A good lad, valiant, skilled like priest in books. +Shall I expel him from my house? He is +So needful to our Litwa; he can rank +The troops as can no other; rampart mounds +He best can heap; the thunder-arms direct. +I have one behind my army.--Walter, come, +And be my son-in-law, and fight for Litwa." + +So Walter wed Aldona. Germans! you +No doubt will think this is the story's end; +For in your love romances when the knights +Are married, then the minstrel ends his song, +And only adds, "They lived long and were happy." +Well Walter loved his wife; his noble soul +Yet found no happiness in heart or home, +For in the country was there blessing none. + +The snows scarce vanished, scarce the first lark sung;-- +The lark to other lands sings love and joy, +But unto hapless Litwa he proclaims +With every year carnage and fire;--on march +Crusading armies in unnumbered crowds. +Now from the hills beyond the Niemen echo +To Kowno bears a mighty army's shouts, +The clang of armour and the neigh of steeds. +Like mist the camp descends, o'erflows the plain, +And here and there the leaders' standards gleam +Like lightning ere the storm. The Germans stood +Upon the shore, threw bridges o'er the Niemen, +And day by day the walls and bastions fall +With shock of battering-ram, and night by night +The storming mines work underground like moles; +Beneath the heavens the bomb in fiery flight +Rises, and swoops upon the city roofs, +As falls the falcon on the lesser fowl. +Kowno is fallen in ruins. Then the Litwin +Retires to Kiejdan; Kiejdan falls in ruin. +Then Litwa makes defence in woods and hills; +The Germans march on farther, robbing, burning; +Kiejstut and Walter first in battle, last +Retreating. Kiejstut was untroubled still, +From childhood used to combat with his foe, +To attack, to conquer, or to fly. He knew +His forefathers warred ever with the Germans; +He, following in their footsteps, ever fought, +And cared not for the future. Other were +The thoughts of Walter. Nurtured 'mid the Germans, +He knew the Order's power; the Master's summons, +He knew, could draw forth armies, treasures, swords, +From all of Europe. Prussia made defence; +In former times the Teutons broke the Prussians; +Sooner or later Litwa meets such fate. +He had seen the Prussians' misery; he trembled +To think of Litwa's future. "Son," cries Kiejstut, +"Thou art an evil prophet; thou hast reft +The veil before my eyes, to show the abyss. +While hearing thee, it seemed my hands grew weak, +With victory's hope all courage left my breast +How shall we with the German power contend?" +"Father," said Walter, "one sole way I know, +A dreadful way, alas! effectual! +Some day I may reveal it." Thus did they +Converse, the battle over, ere the trumpet +Did summon to fresh battles and defeats. +Kiejstut grew ever sadder, and how changed +Seemed Walter; never over-merry he. +Even in happy moments some light shade +Of thought o'erhung his brow, but with Aldona +Serene was once his brow and visage tranquil, +Aye welcoming her with smiles, with tender glance +Bidding farewell to her. Now, as it seemed, +He was tormented by some hidden pain. +By morn, before the house, wringing his hands, +He looked upon the smoke of towns and hamlets, +Burning far off; there gazed he with wild eyes. +By night he started out of sleep, and looked +Forth from the window on the blood-red blaze. +"Husband, what ails thee?" asks with tears Aldona. +"What ails me? Shall I peaceful sleep till Germans +Shall give me sleeping, bound, to hangman's hands?" +"O husband! Heaven forbid! The sentries guard +Full well the trenches." "True the sentries guard them. +I watch and grasp the sabre in my hand. +But when the sentries die the sword is broken. +List, if I live to old age, wretched age----" +"But Heaven will give us comfort in our children." +"The Germans will fall on us, slay the wife, +The children tear away, and lead them far, +Teach them to loose the arrow on their father. +Myself my father, brothers, might have slain, +Unless the Wajdelote----" "Dear Walter! go we +Farther in Litwa; hide we from the Germans +In mountains and in forests." "Aye, we go, +And other mothers, children leave behind. +Thus fled the Prussians; Germans overtook them +In Litwa. If they trace us in the mountains----" +"Let us again go farther." "Farther? farther? +Unhappy one! shall we go far from Litwa, +Into the Tartar's or the Rusin's hands?" +Hushed was Aldona, troubled at this answer, +For hitherto it had to her appeared +Her Fatherland were long as is the world, +Wide without end; and now for the first time +She heard there was no refuge in all Litwa. +Wringing her hands she asked, "What may be done?" + +"One way, Aldona, one remains to Litwa +To break the Order's power: that way I know; +But ask it not for God's sake. Hundred times +Be cursed that hour in which, constrained by foes, +I seize these means." No farther would he say, +Heard not Aldona's prayers, but only heard +And saw before him Litwa's misery. +At last the flame of vengeance, nursed in silence, +By sight of suffering and defeat, increased, +And did surround his heart, consumed all feelings-- +One feeling even, hitherto life-sweetening,-- +Feeling of love. So when the hunters light +A hidden fire 'neath oaks of Bialowiez, +It burns away the inner pith; the monarch +Of the forest loses all his waving leaves, +His branches fly off, even that green crown +That once adorned his brow, the mistletoe, +Dries up and withers. +Long the Litwini +Wandered through castles, mountains, and through woods, +The Germans harrying or by them attacked, +Till fought the dreadful fight on Rudaw's plains, +Where many thousand Litwin youth lay slaughtered, +Beside as many of the Teuton host +Soon reinforcements from beyond the sea +Came to the Germans. Kiejstut then and Walter +Ascended with a handful to the mountains. +With broken sabres and with dinted shields, +Covered with dust and clotted gore, they went +Gloomy towards home. There Walter neither looked +Upon his wife, nor spoke to her one word; +But in the German tongue held he discourse +With Kiejstut and the Wajdelote. Aldona +Nought understood, but yet her heart forebode +Some dire event When ended was their council, +All three turned sorrowing glances on Aldona. +Walter looked longest, with despair's mute gaze; +Thick-falling teardrops trickled from his eyes; +He fell before Aldona's feet and pressed +Her hands unto his heart, and pardon begged +For all the things that she had suffered of him. +"Woe!" cried he, "unto women loving madmen, +Whose hearts domestic happiness contents not. +Great hearts, Aldona, are like hives too large; +Honey can fill them not, and they become +The lizard's nest. Forgive me, dear Aldona! +To-day I would remain at home, to-day +Forget all things; be we for each to-day +What once we used to be. To-morrow----" But +He could not finish. What joy then Aldona's! +She thought, unhappy, Walter would be changed, +That he would live in peace and joyousness. +Less thoughtful did she see him, in his eyes +More life; she saw new colour in his cheeks; +And all that evening at Aldona's feet +Spent Walter. Litwa, Teutons, and the war +He cast awhile into forgetfulness; +Talked of those happy times when first he came +To Litwa, his first converse with Aldona, +The first walk to the valley, and of all +Those childish things, but memorable to the heart, +Of that first love. Wherefore such sweet discourse +Must he break off with that sad word--to-morrow, +And plunge in thought, look long upon his wife? +Tears circle in his eyes. Would he then speak, +But dares not? Did he but invoke the feelings, +The memories of ancient happiness, +Only to bid farewell to them? Shall all +This evening's converse, all its sweet caresses, +Be but the last, last flickerings of love's torch? +'Tis vain to ask. Aldona looks and waits, +Uncertain. Passing from the room, she gazed +Still through the crannies. Walter poured out wine, +And emptied many cups, and near him kept +The hoary Wajdelote through all the night. + +Scarce risen had the sun when hoofs were clattering; +Up with the morning mists two riders haste; +The guards all missed them; one eye could not miss. +A lover's eyes are vigilant. Aldona +Had guessed their flight; she rushed into the valley. +Sad was that meeting. "O my love, return! +Return thou home--return! Thou must be happy, +Blest in embraces of thy family. +Thou art young and fair; comfort will soon be thine. +Forget me. Many princes formerly +Contended for thy hand. And thou art free, +Being as widow left of a great man, +Who for his country's weal renounced ev'n thee! +Farewell! forget; but weep for me at times; +For Walter loses all; he doth remain +Lone as the lone wind in the wilderness, +And he must wander over all the world, +To plunder, murder, and at last to perish +By shameful death. But after vanished years +The name of Alf again shall sound in Litwa, +And from the Wajdelote's lips thou shalt again +Hear of his deeds. Then, loved one, think thou then, +This dreadful knight, with cloud of mystery veiled, +Is known to thee alone,--was once thy husband; +And be thy pride thy desolation's comfort." +Silent Aldona did assent, although +She heard no word. "Thou goest! thou goest!" she cried, +And her own anguish wrought with her own words. +"Thou goest!" this one word sounded in her ear. +She framed no thought, nothing recalled; her thoughts, +Her memories, her future, tangled all; +But guessed her heart she never could return, +Nor e'er forget. Her eyes all wandering roved, +And many times met Walter's wildered look, +Wherein she might not find the ancient joy; +She seemed to seek for something new around, +And looked once more. 'Twas forest wilderness. +Beyond the Niemen 'mid the forests gleamed +A turret height; a convent 'twas of nuns, +Sad dwelling of the Christians. On this tower +Rested Aldona's eyes and thoughts; the dove +Seized by the wind amidst a raging sea, +Thus falls upon an unknown vessel's mast. +And Walter understood Aldona. Silent +He followed her, and told her his design, +Commanding secrecy before the world. +And at the doors--ah! fearful was that parting! +Alf rode off with the Wajdelote. Till now +Nought has been heard of them. But woe to him +If he fulfil not hitherto his vows, +If, having all his bliss renounced and poisoned +Aldona's happiness, and sacrificed +So much, he still have sacrificed in vain! +The future shows the rest. I have ended, Germans. + +This is the end?--great murmur in the hall. +"Who is this Walter, and what are his deeds? +Where? vengeance upon whom?" the hearers cried. +The Master only, 'mid the murmuring crowd, +In silence sat with head bent down. He seemed +As deeply moved; each instant snatches cups +Of wine, and to the very bottom drains. +Upon him came a change of somewhat new, +Many emotions break in sudden lightnings, +And circle o'er his burning countenance; +His pale lips quiver, and his wandering eyes +Fly round like swallows in the midst of storm. +At last he cast his mantle off, and sprang +Into the midst. "Where is the story's end? +Sing me at once the end or give the lute. +Why stand'st thou trembling? Give the lute to me. +Fill up the goblets; I will sing the end +If thou dost fear to sing it. + +"I know ye. Every song the Wajdelote sings +Portendeth woe, as howls of dogs at night. +Murders and burnings ye delight to sing, +Ye leave to us--glory and sorrowing. +Yet in the cradle doth your traitorous song +Circle the infant's breast in reptile form, +And cruellest poison sheds into the soul, +Foolish desire of praise and patriot love. +"She follows hard the footsteps of a youth +Like shade of slaughtered foe, sometimes reveals +Herself in midst of banquets, mixing blood +In cups of joy. I have heard the song--too well, +Alas! Tis done, 'tis done! I know thee, traitor! +Thou winnest! War! what triumph for a poet! +Give to me wine; now my designs are working. + +"I know the song's end. No! I'll sing another. +When on the mountains of Castile I fought, +There the Moors taught me ballads. Old man! play +That melody, that childish melody, +Which in the valley,--'twas a blessed time; +Unto that music did I ever sing. +Return at once, old man, for by all gods, +German or Prussian----" + + The old man must return. +He struck the lute, and with uncertain voice +Followed the savage tones of Konrad, as +A slave may walk behind his angry lord. + +Meanwhile the lights went out upon the table. +The knights had slumbered at the lengthy banquet, +But Konrad sings, and they awake again. +They stand, and, in a narrow circle pressed, +Attentive marked the ballad's every word. + + BALLAD. + + ALPUJARA. + +Ruined lie the Moorish cities, + Still the Moors upraise the sword; +In the country still resisting, + Reigns the pestilence as lord. + +And the towers of Alpujara + Brave Almanzor still defends: +Floats below the Spaniard's banner, + Siege to-morrow he intends. + +Roar the guns at sunrise loudly, + Ramparts break, and crumble walls; +From the towers the cross gleams proudly,-- + Now the Spaniard owns these halls. + +Sad Almanzor views his warriors + Slain in battle desperate; +Hews his way through swords and lances, + Flieth Spain's pursuing hate. + +Now the Spaniards in the fortress, + 'Mid the stones and corpses there, +Hold the feast and drain the wine-cup, + And the spoils and captives share. + +Soon the guard.without announces + That a stranger knight doth wait, +Craving for a swift admittance, + Bringing tidings of great weight + +'Twas the vanquished Moor Almanzor. + Swift his mantle off was thrown; +To the Spaniards he surrenders, + And he craves for life alone. + +"I am come, ye Christian warriors, + To submit me to your power; +I will serve the God of Christians, + Own your prophet from this hour, + +"Let the blast of fame, world-filling, + Say, the Arab chief o'erthrown +Would be brother to his victors, + Vassal of a stranger's crown." + +Well the Spaniard prizes valour. + So the great Almanzor knowing, +They embraced him, circled round him, + As their true companion showing. + +Each one then Almanzor greeted, + And their captain close embraced: +Hung upon his neck, and kissed him; + Such true love their friendship graced. + +All at once his strength grew feebler, + And he fell upon the ground; +But he drew the Spaniard with him, + To his feet the turban bound. + +All with wonder looked upon him, + And his livid visage scan; +Horrid smiles deformed his features, + And with blood his eyes o'erran. + +"Christian dogs," he cries, "look on me, + If you understand this thing; +I deceived you, from Granada + Come I, and the plague I bring. + +"For my kiss breathed venom in ye, + And the plague shall lay you low; +Come and look upon my tortures-- + Ye such death must undergo." + +Wide he cast his eyes around him, + As he would eternally +Chain all Spaniards to his bosom; + And a horrid laugh laughed he. + +Laughed, and died; his eyes yet open, + Open yet his lips remained: +In that hellish smile for ever + Those cold features still were strained. + +Fled the Spaniards from the city. + But the plague their steps pursuing, +Ere they left doomed Alpujara, + Was that gallant host's undoing. + +"Thus years ago the Moors avenged themselves; +Would you the vengeance of the Litwin know? +What if some day it issue forth in words, +And come to mingle poison in the wine? +But no! ah, no! to-day are other customs, +Prince Witold; for to-day the Litwin lords +Come to deliver us their native land, +And seek for vengeance on their harassed people. + +"But yet, indeed, not all--oh! no, by Perun! +There are in Litwa yet--I'll sing yet to you! +Away from me that lute--a string is broken. +No song will be--but I do trust indeed +One time there will be. This day, o'er filled cups,-- +I have drunk too much--rejoice yourselves and play! +And thou Al--manzor, leave my sight, old man! +Away with Halban--leave me here alone." + +He said, and turning by uncertain way, +He found his place, and sank into his chair. +Still threatening somewhat, stamping with his foot, +O'erturned the table with the wine and cups. +At last grown weaker, he inclined his head +Upon the chair-arm; soon his glance was quenched; +His quivering lips were covered o'er with foam. +He slept. + +The knights awhile in fixed amazement stood: +They knew full well Konrad's unhappy custom; +How, when inflamed unto excess with wine, +Into wild transports and forgetfulness +He falls; but at a banquet, public shame! +Before the strangers, in such unheard rage! +Who thus inflamed him? Where that Wajdelote? +He vanished privately, none know of him. + +Stories there were that Halban thus disguised +To Konrad that Litvanian song had sung, +To kindle by this means the zeal of Christians +To battle against heathenesse; but whence +A change so sudden in the Master? Wherefore +Did Witold show such angry wrath? What means +The Master's strange, wild ballad? With conjectures, +Each vainly tries to track the hidden secret. + + + + + +V. + + +WAR.14 + + +War now. For Konrad may no longer curb +The people's zeal, the council's fierce insistance: +The whole land calls for vengeance long delayed, +For Litwa's inroad, and for Witold's treason. + +Witold, once suitor for the Order's grace, +To aid recovery of his capital, +After the banquet, on this new report +That the Crusading hosts will take the field, +Changed measures--traitor to his recent friendship, +And led his knights in secrecy away. + +And in the Teuton castles on the road +He entered, by the Master's forged commands; +And then disarming all the garrison, +Annihilated all with fire and sword. +The Order, roused with burning rage and shame, +Against the heathens stirred up fierce Crusade; +The Pope sends forth a bull,--seas, land, o'erflow +At once with swarms of warriors numberless, +Princes with mighty following of vassals; +The Red Cross decks their armour. Each his life +Devotes to christen pagans,--or to die. + +They went towards Litwa. What their actions there? +If thou wouldst know, gaze from the ramparts' heights, +Look towards Litwa, as the day declines. +Thou see'st a fiery blaze; the vault of heaven +O'er-deluged with a stream of bloody flame; +Behold the annals of invading war. +Few words relate their carnage, plunder, fire, +And blaze, which may rejoice the foolish crowd, +But in it wise men do with fear confess, +A voice that crieth for revenge to Heaven. + +The winds blew on that dreadful fire apace, +The knights marched further to the heart of Litwa. +Report says Kowno, Wilna, are besieged. +Then ceased report, and couriers came no more. +No longer in the region flames were seen, +But further off the heaven's ruddy blaze. +In vain the Prussians look with eager hope, +For spoils and prisoners of the conquered land; +In vain despatch swift couriers for the news, +The couriers hasten--and return no more. +As each this cruel doubt interpreteth, +He willingly would know despair itself. + +The autumn passed away. The winter's snows +Revelled upon the mountains, block the ways. +Once more upon the distant heaven shine-- +Midnight auroras? or the fires of war? +And ever nearer comes the light of flames, +And nearer yet the heaven's ruddy blaze. + +From Marienbourg the folk look on the road; +They see afar--grovelling through deepest snows, +Some travellers!--Konrad! And our generals! +How welcome them? Victors? or fugitive? +Where are the others? Konrad raised his hand, +And pointed further off a scattered crowd, +Alas! their very aspect told the secret! +They rush in disarray, plunge in the snowdrifts; +Roll each on each, down treading like vile insects, +Within a narrow vessel perishing; +They push o'er corpses, ever newer crowds, +Hurl those new risen down again to earth. +Some drag still onward chilled and stiffened limbs, +Some on the march have frozen to the road; +But with raised hands the corpses standing point +Straight to the town, like pillars on the way. + +The townsfolk, terror-stricken, curious ran, +Fearing to guess the truth they dared not ask; +For all the story of that luckless war +They in the warriors' eyes and faces read +For o'er their eyes hung death in frosty shape, +And Famine's harpy hollowed out their cheeks. +Now are the trumpets of the Litwin heard, +Now rolls the storm, snow whirlwinds o'er the plain; +Far off a multitude of gaunt dogs howls, +And overhead the ravens hover round. + +All perished! Konrad has destroyed them all! +He, that once reaped such glory with the sword, +He, for his prudence formerly renowned, +Timid and careless in this latter war, +Marked not the cunning snares that Witold laid; +Deceived and blinded by the wish of vengeance, +Driving his army on the Litwin steppes, +Wilna thus long in sluggard guise besieged. +When plunder and provisions were consumed, +When hunger came upon the German camp, +And scattered all around, the enemy +Destroyed the auxiliars, cut off all supplies, +Each day a myriad Germans died from need. +Now time approached to end by storm the war, +Or else bethink them of a swift return. +Then Wallenrod, in peace and confidence, +Rode to the chase, or, closed within his tent, +Forged secret treaties, and denied his captains +Admission to the councils of the war. + +And thus in warlike fervour grew he cold, +That by his people's tears untouched, unmoved, +He deigned not raise the sword in their defence; +All day with folded arms upon his breast, +In thought remaining, or discourse with Halban. +Meanwhile the winter piled its heaps of snow, +And Witold, with his fresh recruited bands, +Besieged the army, fell upon the camp. +Oh! shame in annals of the valiant Order! +The Master first did fly the battle-field! +In place of laurels, and abundant spoil, +He brought the news of Litwa's victories! +Did ye but mark, when from that thunder stroke +He led this host of spectres to their homes, +What gloomy sadness darkened o'er his brow? +The worm of pain unwound him from his cheek, +And Konrad suffered; but look on his eyes! +That large half-open eye, bright shining throws +Its darts aslant, like comet threatening war; +Each moment changing, like the gleams of night, +Whereby the wily demon travellers lures. +Uniting joy and rabid rage in one, +It shone as with a right Satanic glance. + +Trembled the folk and murmured. Konrad care not. +He called to council the unwilling knights, +Looked on them, spoke, and beckoned. O disgrace! +They hear attentive, and believe his words. +They view Heaven's judgments in the faults of man; +For whom of humankind persuades not--anguish. + +Tarry, proud ruler! Judgment waits even thee! +In Malborg is a dungeon underground. +There, when the night in darkness wraps the town, +The secret tribunal descends to council.15 +One single lamp upon the high-arched roof, +And day and night it burns mysteriously. +Twelve chairs, in circle placed around a throne,-- +Upon the throne the secret book of laws. +Twelve judges each in sable armour clad; +The visages of all inlocked by masks, +In dungeons hide them from the common crowd; +But each thus masked enshrouds him from his fellows. + +All sworn, of their own will, with one accord, +Crimes of their potent rulers to chastise, +Too heinous, or unknown before the world. +And soon as falls on him the last decree, +Not even a brother's trespass to condone; +Each must by violent or by treasonous ways, +On him condemned fulfil the spoken doom; +Dagger in hand, and rapier at their side. + +One of the maskers now approached the throne, +And standing with drawn sword before the book, + Spoke thus: "Tremendous judges! +Proof now our long suspicion has confirmed. +That man who calls him Konrad Wallenrod, + He is not Wallenrod. +Who is he? 'Tis unknown. Twelve years ago, +From unknown parts he to the Rhine-land came. +When passed Count Wallenrod to Palestine, +He in the count's train wore an esquire's dress. +But soon Count Wallenrod, unknown, did perish. +And then his squire, suspected of his death, + Departed secretly from Palestine; + Then did he land upon the Spanish shore; +In battles with the Moors gave proof of valour, +And in the tourneys prizes rich obtained, +And everywhere gained fame as Wallenrod. + He took on him at length the Order's vows, + Was chosen Master, to the Order's loss. +How ruled he, all ye know. This latter winter +When we with frost, famine, and Litwa fought, +Konrad in woods and oak-groves rode alone; +And there in secret held discourse with Witold. +Long time my spies have traced his every deed; +Hidden at evening by the corner tower, +They understood not the discourse which Konrad +Did hold with the recluse;--but, dreadful judges, +He spoke, they said, in the Litvanian tongue. +And weighing duly what the messengers +Of our tribunal of this man reported, +And that intelligence my spy late brought, +And fame reporteth, scarcely secretly; +Tremendous judges! I accuse the Master +Of falsehood, murder, heresy, and treason." + +Here the accuser knelt before the book, +And laid his hand upon the crucifix; +And with an oath confirmed his story's truth, +By God, and by the Saviour's agony. +He ceased. The judges arbitrate the cause, +But not by open voice or still discourse; +Scarce by a glance of eye, or sign of hand, +Their deep and dreadful thought communicate. +Each in his turn approached him to the throne, +And with the dagger's point o'erturned the leaves, +Of the Order's book, and silent read the law, +Inquiring sentence of his conscience only. +And having judged, his hand lays on his heart, +And all in concord raised the cry of "Woe!" +With threefold echo then the walls repeated, +"Woe!"--In that word alone, that single word, +A sentence lies! The arraigners understood. +Twelve swords were raised aloft; one aim was theirs-- +Destined to Konrad's heart. Then all departed +In gloomy silence, and the walls behind, +Repeated with a fearful echo: "Woe!" + + + + + +VI + + +THE PARTING. + + +A WINTRY dawn, with stormy wind and snow; +Through storm and snow-clouds hastens Wallenrod. +Scarce stands he on the borders of the lake, +He calls aloud, striking the tower with sword. +"Aldona," cries he, "let us live, Aldona! +Thy lover comes; his vows are all fulfilled, +The foes have perished, all is now fulfilled." + + THE RECLUSE. + +"Alf! 'tis his voice indeed! My Alf, my love! +What! peace already! thou returnest safe? +Thou goest not forth again?" + + KONRAD. + + "For love of God, +Ask thou no tidings!--Listen, my beloved! +Listen, and weigh with carefulness each word, +The foes have perished. Dost thou see these fires? +Thou see'st? 'Tis Litwa's havoc with the Germans. +A hundred years heal not the Order's wounds, +I smote the hundred-headed monster's heart. +Their treasures wasted, well-springs of their power, +Their towns in flames, a sea of blood has flowed,-- +I caused all this! I have fulfilled my vows! +More fearful vengeance hell might not conceive. +I will no more of it--I am a man! +I spent my youth in foul hypocrisy, +In bloody, murders. Now, bent down with age, +Wearied of treasons, I am unfit for war. +Enough of vengeance. Germans, too, are men! +God has enlightened me. I come from Litwa, +And I have seen those places, seen thy castle, +The Kowno castle,--now it lies in ruin. +I turned away, urged thence my rapid course; +And hurried to that valley, our own valley. +All was as formerly! Those woods, those flowers! +All as it was upon that very eve, +When to the valley breathed we long farewell. +Alas! it seems to me but yesterday! +That stone--rememberest thou that high-raised stone +Once of our rambles limit made and end? +It standeth now, though overgrown with moss; +Scarce might I view it, hidden thus in green. +I tore the herb off, watered it with tears. +That grassy seat, where, through the summer noon, +Thou didst among the maples love to rest; +That spring, whose waters then I sought for thee-- +I found them all, looked on them, passed around. +And even thy little arbour still remains, +As with dry willow-twigs I fenced it in; +And those dry twigs, a wonder, my Aldona, +That once I planted in the barren sand, +To-day thou wouldst not know them--lovely trees, +And the light leaves of spring upon them wave, +And on them grows the youthful catkin's down. +Oh! seeing these, a blessing all unknown, +Foreshadowing of joy, revived my heart; +The trees embracing, on my knees I fell +O God! I cried, grant all may be fulfilled! +Oh! may we, to our Fatherland restored, +When dwelling in our Litwa's native fields, +Again revive to life; may leaves of hope +Again o'erdeck with green our destiny. +Let us return! consent! I rule the Order; +I will bid open. But what need commands? +For were this door a thousand times more hard +Than steel, I'd beat it down--I'd pluck it up; +And thee, O my beloved, to our valley, +There will I lead thee, raise thee with my hand. +Or go we further still? Litwa has deserts; +There lie deep shades in woods of Bialowiez, +Where never rings the clang of foreign swords, +Nor sounds the haughty victor's signal-word-- +No, nor the groanings of our vanquished brothers. +There, in the midst of silent, pastoral joy, +And in thine arms, and on thy bosom, let me +Forget that there are nations in the world; +Or any worlds; we for ourselves will live-- +Return, oh! speak, consent!" + Aldona spoke not; +And Konrad, silent, waited yet reply: +Meanwhile the blood-red dawn shone forth in heaven. + +"O God! Aldona, morning is before us, +And men will wake: the guard arrest us here. +Aldona!"--called he, trembling with despair. +No voice was his; beseeching with his eyes, +He lifted to the tower his clasped hands, +Fell on his knees, and pity to entreat, +Embraced and kissed the walls of that cold tower. + + THE RECLUSE. + +"No, no! the time is past," her sad voice spoke; +"But be thou tranquil, Heaven will give me strength, +The Lord will shield me from that heaviest stroke. +When here I came, I on the threshold swore +Never to leave this tower, but for the grave. +I wrestled with myself, and thou, my love, +Thou, even thou, against the Lord wouldst aid me. +Wouldst give back to the world a wretched phantom? +Oh think! oh think! if madly I should give +Myself to be persuaded, leave this cave +And fall with rapture into thine embrace; +But thou wouldst know not, neither welcome me, +Avert thine eyes, and ask, with horror struck, +'What, is this fearful spectre fair Aldona?' +And thou wouldst seek in this extinguished eye, +And in this visage her--the thought is death! +No, never let the poor recluse's woe +Offend the beauty of the bright Aldona! + +"Myself, I will confess, forgive me, love! +Oft as the moon with brighter lustre gleams, +Hearing thy voice, I hide behind these walls, +Unwishing, loved one, to behold thee near! +For thou, maybe, art not the same to-day +Which once thou wert, in those sweet years gone by, +When with our hosts didst to our castle ride. +But thou retainest, hidden in my breast, +Those self-same eyes, that posture, form, and dress. +So the fair moth, within the amber drowned, +Retains its primal form eternally. +O Alf! 'twere better far that we remain +That which we were in former days, and as +We shall unite again,--but not on earth. + +"Leave we the beauteous valleys to the happy, +I love the stony stillness of my cell; +For me 'tis bliss enough to see thee living, +And in the evening thy loved voice to hear. +And in this silence, Alf, beloved, we may +Heal every suffering, sweeten every pang, +All treasons, murders, burnings, cast aside, +Strive thou to come but earlier and more frequent. + +"If thou shouldst--listen, on these very plains, +Like to that arbour plant another bower, +And hither bring those willows that thou lovest, +And flowers, and even that stone from out the valley; +There let the children from the hamlet near, +Play joyously beneath their native trees, +And into garlands weave their native plants; +Let them repeat the Lithuanian songs, +For native song doth meditation aid, +And brings me dreams of Litwa and of thee. +And later, later, when my life is o'er, +Here let them sing, and on the grave of Alf." + +Alf heard no longer; he, on that wild shore, +Wandered on aimless, without thought or will; +A mountain there of ice, a forest there +Allured him; savage sights and hasty course +Afforded him relief in weariness. +His breast was heavy in the winter rain, +He cast aside his mantle, coat-of-mail, +He tore his garments, from his breast threw off +All--all but sorrow! + +Now morning lighted on the city ramparts. +He saw an unknown shadow, stopped, and gazed-- +The shadow further moved; with silent steps +It glided o'er the snow, and disappeared +Within the trenches, but a voice was heard +Three times that voice repeated: "Woe, woe, woe!" + +Alf at this voice awoke, and stood in thought +He thought awhile,--and understood the whole. +He drew his sword, and looked to every side; +He turned him round, searched with unquiet eye-- +'Twas waste around; only the winter snow +Flew in a whirlwind, and the north wind roared +He looked upon the shore, he stood in grief. +At length with rapid stride, though tottering, +He came again beneath Aldona's tower. + +Far off he saw her, at the window still. +"Good day!" he cried; "so many, many years, +We saw each other only in the night. +And now good day! what happy augury! +The first good day after so many years! +And canst thou guess, wherefore I come so soon?" + + ALDONA. + +"I will not guess. Farewell, beloved friend! +The light has risen too brightly--if they knew thee-- +Cease to importune me. Farewell till evening. +I cannot come forth--will not" + + ALF. + + "Tis too late. +Know'st thou for what I pray thee? Throw some twig; +No, no, thou hast no flowers. From thy garments +A thread, or from thy tresses cast a lock; +Or throw a pebble from thy prison walls. +To-day I wish--all may not see to-morrow. +I would to-day have some remembrance of thee, +That lay this very morn upon thy breast, +And which a tear shall glow on, lately shed, +For I would lay it on my heart in death, +And bid the gift farewell with my last breath. +I must die shortly, swiftly, suddenly! +Well die together! Dost thou see that shot-hole? +There will I dwell. Each morning for a sign, +I'll hang a black cloth on the balcony, +And at the grate each evening place a lamp. +There gaze thou steadfast. Throw I down the cloth, +Or if the lamp expires before its time, +Close thou thy window. I maybe return not. +Farewell, beloved!" + He vanished. Still Aldona +Gazed, bending downward from the window grate. +The morn had passed away, the sun had set, +But her white garments, dallying in the wind, +And arms stretched down to earth were long beheld. + +"The sun has set at last," spoke Alf to Halban, +And pointed from his shot-hole to the sun. +Within the turret, from the early morn +He sat, and looked upon Aldona's window, +"Give me my cloak and sword. Farewell, true friend; +I go unto the tower. Farewell for long, +Maybe for ever!--Listen to me, Halban. +If, when to-morrow day begins to gleam, +I come not back, leave thou this dwelling-place. +I will, I would give something to thy charge. +How lone am I! either in earth or heaven, +To no one, nowhere, have I aught to say +In my death-hour, except to her and thee! +Farewell unto thee, Halban; she will know it. +Throw down the kerchief if to-morrow morn-- +But what is that? Dost hear? There comes a knocking." +"Who goeth there?" three times the sentry cried. +"Woe!" answered many voices wild and strange. +Resistance none the sentry might oppose; +The door could not withstand the heavy shocks. +The invaders passed the lower galleries through, +And mounted up the winding iron stair +That led to Wallenrod's last dwelling-place. +Alf with the iron bolt secured the door, +His sabre drew, a cup raised from the board, +Drew near the window. "It is done!" he cried. +He filled, and drank. "Old man, 'tis in thy hands." + +Halban grew pale. With motion of his hand +He thought to spill the draught--he stopt in thought. +The sounds aye nearer through the doors were heard, +His hand relaxed. "'Tis they, the foes are come!" +"Old man, thou knowest what this uproar means? +What are thy thoughts? Thou hast the goblet full-- +I have drunk my portion. In thy hands, old man." + +Halban gazed on in silence of despair. +"No, no, I will survive even thee, my son! +I would as yet remain to close thine eyes, +And live, so that the glory of thy deed, +I to the world may tell, to ages show. +I'll traverse Litwa's castles, hamlets, towns; +And where I pass not, there my song shall fly. +The bard shall sing them unto knights in war, +And women sing them for their babes at home. +Aye! they shall sing them, and in future days +Some venger shall arise from out our bones."(5) + +Alf fell upon the window-sill with tears, +And long, long time upon the tower he gazed, +As though he yet his gaze would satiate +With those dear sights he shortly must forego. +He hung on Halban's neck; they mixed their sighs, +In that embrace of long and last farewell. +But at the bolts they heard a steely rattle, +And armed men came in, and called Alf s name. + +"Traitor, thy head must fall beneath the sword; +Repent thee of thy sins, prepare for death! +Behold this old man, chaplain of the Order, +Cleanse thou thy soul and make a fitting end!" +Alf stood with drawn sword ready for their coming; +But paler aye he grew, he bowed, and tottered, +Leaned on the sill; casting a haughty glance, +His mantle tore off, flung the Master's badge +On earth, and trampled scornful under foot. + +"Behold the sins committed in my life. +Ready am I to die; what will ye more? +The annals of my ruling will ye hear? +Look on these many thousands hurled to death, +On towns in ruins, and domains in flames. +Hear ye the storm-winds? clouds of snow drive on; +Thither your army's remnants freeze in ice. +Hear ye? The hungry packs of dogs do howl, +They tear each other for the banquet's remnant. + +"I caused all this, and I am great and proud, +So many hydras' heads one blow has felled; +As Samson, by once shaking of the column, +To o'er throw the temple, dying in its ruin." + +He spoke, looked on the window, and he fell. +But ere he fell, he cast the lamp to earth. +It three times glimmered with a circling blaze, +That rested latterly on Konrad's brow; +And in its scattered flow the fire's rust gleamed, +But ever deeper into darkness sank. +At length, as though it gave the sign of death, +One last great ring of light shot forth its blaze; +And in this blaze were seen the eyes of Alf, +All white in death, and now the light was dark. + +And at this moment through the tower walls pierced +A sudden cry,16 strong, lengthened, broken off-- +From whose breast came it? Surely ye can guess +But he who heard it readily might tell, +That from the breast whence such a cry escaped, +Now never more should any voice come forth. +For this voice a whole life spoke aloud. + +Thus lute strings, shuddering from a heavy stroke, +Vibrate and burst; in their confused sounds +They seem to voice the first notes of a song, +But of such song let none expect the end. + +Such be my singing of Aldona's fate. +Let music's angel sing it through in heaven, +And thou, O tender reader, in thy soul. + + + + + +NOTES. + + +(1) _"__In towers of Marienbourg the bells are ringing.__"_ + +Marienbourg, in Polish Malborg, a fortified town, formerly the capital of +the Teutonic Order, under Kazimir Jagellon (1444-1492) united to the +Polish Republic; later on, given as a pledge to the Margraves of +Brandenburgh. It came at last into the possession of the Kings of Prussia. +In the vaults of the castle were the graves of the Grand-Masters, some of +which are still preserved. + +(2) _"__But foreign houses of his fame were full.__"_ + +Houses--so were called the convents, or rather castles, scattered through +various parts of Europe. + +(3) _"__The strife of keen-edged swords__"__ = combattre a outrance._ + +(4) _The Archkomtur._ + +The Grosskomthur was the chief officer after the Grand-Master. + +(5) _"__Some unknown pious woman from afar.__"_ + +The chronicles of that time speak of a country girl, who, having come to +Marienbourg, asked to be walled up in a solitary cell, and there ended her +life. Her grave was famous for miracles. + +(6) _"__Our master he.__"_ + +In time of election, if opinions were divided or uncertain, similar +occurrences were often taken as omens, and influenced the decisions of the +chapter. Thus Winrych Kniprode gained all the voices, because some of the +brothers heard, as though from the tombs of the Grand-Masters, a +three-fold calling: "Vinrice, ordo laborat." + +(7) _"__A fire eternal burns in Swentorog's halls.__"_ + +The castle of Wilna, where formerly was maintained the Znicz; that is, an +ever-burning fire. + +(8) _"__The place was Witold's.__"_ + +[Witold, the son of Kiejstut, after rising over the heads of the other +Lithuanian princes to the sovereignty of the whole country, was ultimately +dispossessed by his cousin Jagellon, founder of the Jagellon dynasty, +which reigned over Poland and Lithuania from 1386 to 1572.] + +(9) _Song of the Wajdelote._ + +The Wajdelotes, Sigonoci, Lingustoni were priests whose office was to +relate or sing to the people the acts of their forefathers at all +festivals. That the old Lithuanians and Prussians loved and cultivated +poetry is proved by the enormous number of ancient songs, still remaining +among the common people, and by the testimony of chroniclers. We read that +during a grand festival on the occasion of the election of the +Grand-Master Winrych von Kniprode, a German Minnesinger, being honoured +with applause and a gold cup, a Prussian named Rizelus, was so encouraged +by this good reception of a poet, that he entreated for permission to sing +in his native Lithuanian tongue, and celebrated the deeds of the first +king of the Litwini, Wajdewut. The Grand-Master and the knights, not +understanding and disliking the Lithuanian speech, ridiculed the poet, and +gave him a present of a plate of empty nutshells. In Prussia the Crusaders +forbade officials and all who approached the court to use the Lithuanian +tongue, under penalty of death; they banished from the country, together +with the Jews and gipsies, the Wajdelotes, or Lithuanian bards, who alone +knew and could relate the national annals. Again in Lithuania, after the +introduction of the Christian faith and the Polish language, the ancient +priests and the native speech fell into disrepute, and were forgotten; +thence the common people, changed to serfs, and attached to the soil, +having abandoned the sword, also forgot those chivalric songs. Still +something has remained of their ancient annals and heroic verse, long +joined with superstition, communicated in secret to the people. Simon +Grunau, in the sixteenth century, came by accident on the Prussians at a +solemnity, and with difficulty saved his life, on promising the peasants, +that he never would reveal to any one what he should see or hear; then, +after performing sacrifice, an old Wajdelote began to sing the deeds of +the ancient Lithuanian heroes, mingling therewith prayers and moral +instructions. Grunau, who well understood Lithuanian, confesses that he +never expected to hear anything similar from the lips of a Lithuanian, +such was the beauty of the theme and the phraseology. + +(10) _"__Stands visibly the pestilential maid.__"_ + +The common people in Lithuania figure pestilential air under the form of a +maiden, whose appearance, here described according to the popular song, +precedes a terrible sickness. I quote, in substance at least, a ballad I +once heard in Lithuania: --"In a village appeared the maiden of the +pestilence; and, after her custom, thrusting her hand through door or +window, and waving a red cloth, scattered death through the houses. The +inhabitants shut themselves up in a state of siege, but hunger and other +necessities soon obliged them to neglect such means of safety; all +therefore awaited death. A certain gentleman, although well provided with +victuals, and able to maintain a long while this strange siege, yet +resolved to sacrifice himself for the good of his neighbours, took a sabre +of the time of the Sigismonds, on which was the name of Jesus and the name +of Mary, and thus armed, opened the window of the house. The gentleman, +with one stroke, cut off the spectre's hand, and got possession of the +handkerchief. It is true he died, and all his family died; but from that +time the disease was never known in the village." This handkerchief was +said to be preserved in the church, I do not recollect of what village. In +the East, before the appearance of the plague, a phantom with bats' wings +is said to appear, and to point with its fingers at those condemned to +die. It appears as though popular imagination wished to present, by such +images, that mysterious foreboding and strange anxiety which usually +precedes great misfortune or destruction, and which often is shared, not +by individuals only, but by whole nations. Thus in Greece were forebodings +of the long duration and terrible results of the Peloponnesian war; in the +Roman Empire of the fall of monarchy; in America of the coming of the +Spaniards. + +(11) _"__The trees of Bialowiez.__"_ + +[The trees here referred to are of an immense age and extra-ordinary +height, challenging comparison with the giant trees of California. Many of +them were venerated as divinities by the pagans of Lithuania, in whose +religion tree and serpent worship formed a prominent feature. Oracles were +supposed to be given from a peculiar species of oak, called Baublis, ever +green both summer and winter. In the trunk of one of these, cut down about +the year 1845, there were counted 1417 rings.] + +(12) _"__Do burn the German knights in sacrifice.__"_ + +The Lithuanians used to burn prisoners of war, especially Germans, as +offerings to the gods. For this purpose was set aside the leader, or the +most distinguished of the knights for high descent and bravery; if several +had become prisoners, the unfortunate victim was chosen by lot. For +example, after the victory of the Lithuanians over the Crusaders, in the +year 1315, Stryjkowski says: "And Litwa and Zmudz (Samogitia) after this +victory, and after taking abundant spoil from their conquered and +thunder-stricken foes, when they had paid to their gods sacrifices and the +accustomed prayers, burnt alive a distinguished Crusader of the name of +Gerard Rudde, the chief of the prisoners, with the horse on which he made +war, and with the armour which he had worn, on a lofty pile of wood; and +with the smoke they sent his soul to heaven, and scattered his body to the +winds with the ashes." + +(13) _"__They gave me the name of Walter.__"_ + +Walter von Stadion, a German knight, taken prisoner by the Lithuanians, +married the daughter of Kiejstut, and with her secretly departed from +Lithuania. It frequently occurred that Prussians and Lithuanians, carried +off as children, and educated in Germany, returned to their country, and +became the bitterest foes of the Germans. Thus the Prussian Herkus Monte +was remarkable in the annals of the Order. + +(14) _War._ + +The picture of this war is drawn from history. [The circumstances of +Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, no doubt largely furnished the painful and +realistic details in the text.] + +(15) _"__The secret tribunal descends to council.__"_ + +In the Middle Ages, when powerful dukes and barons frequently permitted +themselves great crimes, when the power of ordinary tribunals was too weak +to humble them, secret brotherhoods were formed, whose members, unknown to +one another, bound themselves by oath to punish the guilty, not pardoning +even their own friends or relatives. As soon as the secret judges had +pronounced the decree of death, the condemned man was made aware of it, by +a voice calling under his windows, or somewhere in his presence, the +word--_Weh!_ (woe!) This word, three times repeated, was a warning that he +who heard it should prepare for death, which he must infallibly and +unexpectedly receive from an unknown hand. The secret court was called the +_fehm_ tribunal (Vehmgericht) or Westphalian. It is difficult to determine +its origin; according to some writers it was instituted by Charlemagne. At +first necessary, it gave opportunity for many abuses later on, and +governments were forced to exercise severity occasionally against the +judges themselves, before this institution was completely overthrown. +[Scott's graphic description in "Anne of Geierstein" of the court and +procedure of the Vehmgericht will be instantly suggested.] + +(16) _"__A sudden cry.__"_ + + _--__"__What cleaves the silent air,_ +_So madly shrill, so passing wild?_ +_It was a woman's shriek, and ne'er_ +_In madlier ascents rose despair;_ +_And they who heard it as it passed,_ +_In mercy wished it were the last.__"_--PARISINA. + +[The coincidence, or borrowing of ideas, is manifest, but the image has +been amplified and beautified in the Polish poem.] + +_N.B._--In all the Polish words retained in the text, _j_ is pronounced +like _y_, and _w_ like _v_. + + PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. + + EDINBURGH AND LONDON. + + + + + + 1 Lithuanian woman. + + 2 Inhabitant of Rus (White Russia, Little Russia, also Red Russia, or + Galicia). + + 3 Pole. 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