THE COUNT OF GREIERS. FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND. Ar morn the Count of Greiers before his castle stands; "Oh, greenest of the valleys, how shall I come to thee! He hears a sound of timbrels, and suddenly appear The youngest of the maidens, slim as a spray of spring, Then hand in hand departing, with dance and roundelay, Through hamlet after hamlet, they lead the Count away. They dance through wood and meadow, they dance across the linn, Till the mighty Alpine summits have shut the music in. The second morn is risen, and now the third is come; Where stays the Count of Greiers? has he forgot his home? Again the evening closes, in thick and sultry air; There's thunder on the mountains, the storm is gathering there. The cloud has shed its waters, the brook comes swollen down; “Here am I cast by tempests far from your mountain dell. "Farewell, with thy glad dwellers, green vale among the rocks! Farewell the swift sweet moments, in which I watched thy flocks' Why rocked they not my cradle in that delicious spot, That garden of the happy, where Heaven endures me not? "Rose of the Alpine valley! I feel, in every vein, THE SERENADE. FROM THE SPANISH. IF slumber, sweet Lisena! As night steals o'er the glory Wake, in thy scorn and beauty, That mourns for thy disdain. Here by thy door at midnight, A tale of sorrow cherished Of wrong from love the flatterer, Twice, o'er this vale, the seasons The genial wind of May; Yet still my plaint is uttered, I saw from this fair region, While winter seized the streamlets That fled along the ground, And fast in chains of crystal The truant murmurers bound. I saw that to the forest The nightingales had flown, And every sweet-voiced fountain Had hushed its silver tone. The maniac winds, divorcing |