ver was still.
'My name is ---- ----;' no sooner said he,
Than Beelzebub rose with a grin;
He embrac'd the foul monster, who also display'd
His joy at the meeting; and both of them made
All Hell echo round with their din.
_Ordeal_, I-157, Mar. 11, 1809, Boston.
[Footnote 34: I have not been able to discover what these
volumes were. There is a short note in the German, which
implies that they were entitled Dulder Soudth.]
THE FOWLER.
A Song. Altered from a German air, in the opera of "Dizauberlote."
_Gleaner_, I-374, Apr. 1809, Lancaster (Penn.).
[Also in _Mo. Anthology and Boston Rev._, III-591, Nov. 1806, Boston.]
TO CHLOE.
From the German of Gesner.
[Prose translation.]
_Visitor_, I-154, Nov. 4, 1809, Richmond.
[S. Gessner, _An Chloen_.]
SONG.
From the German of Jacobi.
_Boston Mirror_, II-88, Dec. 30, 1809, Boston.
[Same as, _A Sonnet_, by Jacobi, in _Companion and Weekly Misc._,
I-104, Jan. 26, 1805, Balto.]
I publish the following new translation of "The Wild Hunter," first on
account of its superiority over every other, and secondly because it
is my intention in a future number to notice particularly this _chef
d'oeuvre_ of the German poet.
THE WILD HUNTER.
Loud, loud the baron winds his horn;
And, see, a lordly train
On horse, on foot, with deafening din,
Comes scouring o'er the plain.
O'er heath, o'er field, the yelping pack
Dash swift, from couples freed;
O'er heath, o'er field, close on their track,
Loud neighs the fiery steed.
And now the Sabbath's holy dawn
Beam'd high with purple ray,
And bright each hallowed temple's dome
Reflected back the day.
Now deep and clear the pealing bells
Struck on the list'ning ear,
And heaven-ward rose from many a voice
The hymn of praise and prayer.
Swift, swift along the crossway, still
They speed with eager cry:
See! right and left, two horsemen strange
Their rapid coursers ply.
Who were the horsemen right and left?
That may I guess full well:
Who were the horsemen right and left?
That may I never tell.
The right, of fair and beauteous mien,
A milk-white steed bestrode;
Mild as
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