Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ehrenbreitstein | | Ehrenbreitstein | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | (From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage)
HERE Ehrenbreitstein, with her shattered wall | |
| Black with the miner’s blast, upon her height | |
| Yet shows of what she was, when shell and ball | |
| Rebounding idly on her strength did light: | |
| A tower of victory, from whence the flight | 5 |
| Of baffled foes was watched along the plain: | |
| But Peace destroyed what War could never blight, | |
| And laid those proud roofs bare to summer’s rain,— | |
| On which the iron shower for years had poured in vain. | | | | |
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