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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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