Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Cologne | | The Cathedral of Cologne | | Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
| | Translated by A. Baskerville
CATHEDRAL of Cologne! | |
| Memorial of eld, | |
| When German art excelled, | |
| Long grown with age so gray, | |
| Unfinished till this day. | 5 |
| Cathedral of Cologne! | |
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| Cathedral of Cologne! | |
| He who thy plan conceived | |
| Died ere it was achieved, | |
| And none to build the rest | 10 |
| Have e’er their strength confessed, | |
| Cathedral of Cologne! | |
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| Cathedral of Cologne! | |
| The German sun declined | |
| The hill of time behind; | 15 |
| Who thought, in such dark hours, | |
| Of raising thy proud towers, | |
| Cathedral of Cologne! | |
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| Cathedral of Cologne! | |
| The master’s sketch and plan | 20 |
| Lay hid from human scan; | |
| But lately from the night | |
| The plan was brought to light, | |
| Cathedral of Cologne! | |
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| Cathedral of Cologne! | 25 |
| In vain was not revealed | |
| The plan that lay concealed; | |
| And loud to us it cries, | |
| “Thy towers shall arise, | |
| Cathedral of Cologne!” | 30 | | | |
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