Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Austria: Untersberg | | Barbarossa | | Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834–1894) |
| | (From The Roses of Bazeilles)
DEEP in a mountain’s caverned hall, | |
| It is whispered low, | |
| Waits in a weird, sepulchral glow | |
| An arméd phantom, crowned and tall, | |
| Whose hoary beard of centuries | 5 |
| Grows on the gray stone where it lies; | |
| While jewelled knights with glittering eyes | |
| Glower round | |
| In trance profound. | |
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| Anon, at age-long intervals, | 10 |
| The ghostly king | |
| Sends a raven of sable wing | |
| From his stupendous prison-walls, | |
| To learn how near the fated hour | |
| When he may reassume the power,— | 15 |
| Behold! no raven comes again. | |
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| Behold! the raven devours the slain! | |
| Vaults asunder | |
| Burst in thunder! | |
| Lo! in the hall of mirrors yonder, | 20 |
| In a palace consecrate to all | |
| Age-long glories of the Gaul, | |
| A German wears imperial | |
| Purple: Barbarossa lives! | |
| The ghost of a dark age revives, | 25 |
| And the heart of every freeman dies, | |
| Seeing him rise! | | | | |
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