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What knight or what vassal will be so bold	A
As to plunge in the gulf below	B
See I hurl in its depths a goblet of gold	A
Already the waters over it flow	B
The man who can bring back the goblet to me	C
May keep it henceforward his own it shall be	C
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Thus speaks the king and he hurls from the height	D
Of the cliffs that rugged and steep	E
Hang over the boundless sea with strong might	D
The goblet afar in the bellowing deep	E
And who'll be so daring I ask it once more	F
As to plunge in these billows that wildly roar	F
	-
And the vassals and knights of high degree	C
Hear his words but silent remain	G
They cast their eyes on the raging sea	C
And none will attempt the goblet to gain	G
And a third time the question is asked by the king	H
Is there none that will dare in the gulf now to spring	H
	-
Yet all as before in silence stand	I
When a page with a modest pride	J
Steps out of the timorous squirely band	I
And his girdle and mantle soon throws aside	J
And all the knights and the ladies too	K
The noble stripling with wonderment view	K
	-
And when he draws nigh to the rocky brow	L
And looks in the gulf so black	M
The waters that she had swallowed but now	L
The howling Charybdis is giving back	M
And with the distant thunder's dull sound	N
From her gloomy womb they all foaming rebound	N
	-
And it boils and it roars and it hisses and seethes	C
As when water and fire first blend	O
To the sky spurts the foam in steam laden wreaths	C
And wave presses hard upon wave without end	O
And the ocean will never exhausted be	C
As if striving to bring forth another sea	C
	-
But at length the wild tumult seems pacified	J
And blackly amid the white swell	P
A gaping chasm its jaws opens wide	J
As if leading down to the depths of hell	P
And the howling billows are seen by each eye	Q
Down the whirling funnel all madly to fly	Q
	-
Then quickly before the breakers rebound	N
The stripling commends him to Heaven	R
And a scream of horror is heard around	N
And now by the whirlpool away he is driven	R
And secretly over the swimmer brave	S
Close the jaws and he vanishes 'neath the dark wave	S
	-
O'er the watery gulf dread silence now lies	C
But the deep sends up a dull yell	P
And from mouth to mouth thus trembling it flies	C
Courageous stripling oh fare thee well	P
And duller and duller the howls recommence	C
While they pause in anxious and fearful suspense	C
	-
If even thy crown in the gulf thou shouldst fling	H
And shouldst say 'He who brings it to me	C
Shall wear it henceforward and be the king '	-
Thou couldst tempt me not e'en with that precious foe	B
What under the howling deep is concealed	T
To no happy living soul is revealed	T
	-
Full many a ship by the whirlpool held fast	U
Shoots straightway beneath the mad wave	S
And dashed to pieces the hull and the mast	U
Emerge from the all devouring grave	S
And the roaring approaches still nearer and nearer	V
Like the howl of the tempest still clearer and clearer	V
	-
And it boils and it roars and it hisses and seethes	C
As when water and fire first blend	O
To the sky spurts the foam in steam laden wreaths	C
And wave passes hard upon wave without end	O
And with the distant thunder's dull sound	N
From the ocean womb they all bellowing bound	N
	-
And lo from the darkly flowing tide	J
Comes a vision white as a swan	W
And an arm and a glistening neck are descried	J
With might and with active zeal steering on	W
And 'tis he and behold his left hand on high	Q
Waves the goblet while beaming with joy is his eye	Q
	-
Then breathes he deeply then breathes he long	X
And blesses the light of the day	J
While gladly exclaim to each other the throng	X
He lives he is here he is not the sea's prey	J
From the tomb from the eddying waters' control	Y
The brave one has rescued his living soul	Y
	-
And he comes and they joyously round him stand	J
At the feet of the monarch he falls	C
The goblet he kneeling puts in his hand	J
And the king to his beauteous daughter calls	C
Who fills it with sparkling wine to the brim	Z
The youth turns to the monarch and speaks thus to him	Z
	-
Long life to the king Let all those be glad	J
Who breathe in the light of the sky	Q
For below all is fearful of moment sad	J
Let not man to tempt the immortals e'er try	Q
Let him never desire the thing to see	C
That with terror and night they veil graciously	C
	-
I was torn below with the speed of light	J
When out of a cavern of rock	A2
Rushed towards me a spring with furious might	J
I was seized by the twofold torrent's wild shock	A2
And like a top with a whirl and a bound	J
Despite all resistance was whirled around	J
	-
Then God pointed out for to Him I cried	J
In that terrible moment of need	J
A craggy reef in the gulf's dark side	J
I seized it in haste and from death was then freed	J
And there on sharp corals was hanging the cup	B2
The fathomless pit had else swallowed it up	B2
	-
For under me lay it still mountain deep	E
In a darkness of purple tinged dye	Q
And though to the ear all might seem then asleep	E
With shuddering awe 'twas seen by the eye	Q
How the salamanders' and dragons' dread forms	C
Filled those terrible jaws of hell with their swarms	C
	-
There crowded in union fearful and black	M
In a horrible mass entwined	J
The rock fish the ray with the thorny back	M
And the hammer fish's misshapen kind	J
And the shark the hyena dread of the sea	C
With his angry teeth grinned fiercely on me	C
	-
There hung I by fulness of terror possessed	J
Where all human aid was unknown	C2
Amongst phantoms the only sensitive breast	J
In that fearful solitude all alone	C2
Where the voice of mankind could not reach to mine ear	D2
'Mid the monsters foul of that wilderness drear	D2
	-
Thus shuddering methought when a something crawled near	D2
And a hundred limbs it out flung	E2
And at me it snapped in my mortal fear	D2
I left hold of the coral to which I had clung	E2
Then the whirlpool seized on me with maddened roar	D2
Yet 'twas well for it brought me to light once more	D2
	-
The story in wonderment hears the king	H
And he says The cup is thine own	C2
And I purpose also to give thee this ring	H
Adorned with a costly a priceless stone	C2
If thou'lt try once again and bring word to me	C
What thou saw'st in the nethermost depths of the sea	C
	-
His daughter hears this with emotions soft	J
And with flattering accent prays she	C
That fearful sport father attempt not too oft	J
What none other would dare he hath ventured for thee	C
If thy heart's wild longings thou canst not tame	F2
Let the knights if they can put the squire to shame	F2
	-
The king then seizes the goblet in haste	J
In the gulf he hurls it with might	J
When the goblet once more in my hands thou hast placed	J
Thou shalt rank at my court as the noblest knight	J
And her as a bride thou shalt clasp e'en to day	J
Who for thee with tender compassion doth pray	J
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Then a force as from Heaven descends on him there	D2
And lightning gleams in his eye	Q
And blushes he sees on her features so fair	D2
And he sees her turn pale and swooning lie	Q
Then eager the precious guerdon to win	G2
For life or for death lo he plunges him in	G2
	-
The breakers they hear and the breakers return	H2
Proclaimed by a thundering sound	J
They bend o'er the gulf with glances that yearn	H2
And the waters are pouring in fast around	J
Though upwards and downwards they rush and they rave	S
The youth is brought back by no kindly wave	S

Friedrich Schiller

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