Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Lahneck, the Castle | | The Salutation of a Spirit | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
| | Translated by George Bancroft
HIGH on the castle’s ancient walls | |
| The warrior’s shade appears, | |
| Who to the bark that ’s passing calls, | |
| And thus its passage cheers: | |
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| “Behold! these sinews once were strong; | 5 |
| This heart was firm and bold; | |
| Mid war and glory, feast and song, | |
| My earthly years were told. | |
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| “Restless through half of life I ran, | |
| In half have sought for ease. | 10 |
| What then? Thou bark, that sail’st with man, | |
| Haste, haste to cleave the seas!” | | | | |
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