Identifier: rhineitssceneryh00hunt (find matches)
Title: The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Hunt, Frederick Knight, 1814-1854. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: London, J. How
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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his old age meeting a youth nearb~ Godesburg in whom he recognised a likeness tohis wife, he questioned him, and finding that it wasthe boy he so long had sought, without pity forhis youth, he visited the sin of the mother upon heroffspring and slew him in the high road, on the spotwhere the Hocli Kreuz now stands—a monument whichtradition says was erected to hold the deed in memoryas a warning to weak wives and faithless friends. Drachenfels is a name familiar as a householdword to the ear of the Englishman. This fame hasbeen created by the often quoted lines of Byron, whowandered up the Rhine in a fit of poetry and indigestion,which did not, however, prevent him from painting the scenery withthe power and truthfulness of a master. One part of his picture,however, is unfaithful. Unhappily, the peasant girls with deep blue eyes areseen toiling through the heaviest labours of husbandry, instead of finding leisurefor the more poetical employment of gathering or offering early flowers.
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The castled crag of DrachenfelsFrowns oer the wide and winding Rhine,Whose breast of waters broadly swells,Between the banks which bear the vine,And hills all rich with blossomd trees,And fields which promise corn and wine,And scatterd cities crowning these,Wtiose far white walls along them shine,Have strewd a scene which I should seeWith double joy wert thou with me. 134 THE RHINE BOOK. And peasant girls with deep blue eyes,And hands which offer early flowers,Walk smiling oer this paradise ;Above, the frequent feudal towersThrough green leaves lift their walls ofgray, And many a rock which steeply lours,And noble arch in proud decay,Look oer this vale of vintage-bowers ;But one thing want these banks of Rhine,—Thy gentle hand to clasp in mine ! The river nobly foams and flows,The charm of this enchanted ground,And all its thousand turns discloseSome fresher beauty varying round :The haughtiest breast its wish mightbound Through life to dwell delighted here ;Nor could on earth a spo

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