Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Lech, the River | | Sonnet on the Death of the Bavarian General Tilly | | William Herbert (1778–1847) |
| | | TILLY, thine hopes are fallen! by the stream | |
| Of rapid Lech victorious cannons roar | |
| With Swedish vengeance; on the adverse shore | |
| Fraught with thy death the volleyed lightnings gleam! | |
| Yet nor those hardy veterans, who seem | 5 |
| To mock all hinderance; nor those mouths, which pour | |
| The thundering voice of war with fierce uproar; | |
| Nor e’en Gustavus mars thy glorious dream. | |
| But she, who met thee with her ghastly train | |
| Of murdered babes (a pale and vengeful ghost), | 10 |
| Sad Magdeburg, in Leipsic’s dubious fight; | |
| And with her heaven’s red arm, which o’er the plain | |
| Spread strange dismay: then victory fled thine host, | |
| And thy bright glories sunk in fatal night. | | | | |
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