Excerpt from The Legends of the Rhine: From Basle to Rotterdam On the Rhine blooms fine life! From the Destruction's dust, The Ancestor's spirits strife, Which long were the Graves' rust; And songs there resound With harmonious stream, In the spirit again found, And again must I dream. See I the birds flying High the blue air through, See I the ships striving In distant grey-fog anew, Is me, as if in flight The birds words sing, As in quick despite To ships others cling. Spirit-words on the moor And quick moving flood; There round the Convent-door, Where Pilgrims once stood - And the Ivy branch waves, So high and sadly wild Binds tendrils round the graves There tone fairy songs so mild. Kieefr, Legends of the Rhine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.