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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
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r could on earth a spot be foundTo nature and to me so dear,Could thy dear eyes in following mineStill sweeten more these banks of Rhine ! Rolandseck has a fineview and a legend, which itenjoys in common with the CONVENT ON THE ISLAND OFNONNENWERTH. The glory of the lists andthe admiration of the fair dames and maidens who gazedupon the contests of chivalry, the youthful Roland hadnought to desire but the love of some fair being whosebeauty and whose virtues could deserve and retain theheart of so brave and gallant a young knight. Nor didhe look long round about in vain, for Hilda, the daughterof the lord of the Drachenfels, was all that dreams had pic-tured to his youthful fancy as worthy of an ardent souFsdevotion; and soon he was made happy by a confession fromthe maiden that his passion was returned. Lost in a dreamof first love, the knight forgot the world and its struggles,and in the expectation of an early day for his weddingwith his mistress, he had no care for the morrow, but
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lived a life of perfect joy;—now gazing with Hilda upon the windings of theRhine ; now watching her as she stooped gracefully to tend the flowers whichpeace allowed to flourish under the walls of her fathers abode ; now wanderingwith his arm round the taper waist of his affianced bride, talking of the happinessin store for them. But Roland lived in times when love was but the bright, transient episode of alife of war. The laws of chivalry forbade a true knights neglect of duty, and in THE LEGEND OF ROLAND. 135

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