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From Schiller	A
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Which of you knight or squire will dare	B
Plunge into yonder gulf	C
A golden beaker I fling in it there	B
The black mouth swallows it like a wolf	D
Who brings me the cup again whoever	A
It is his own he may keep it for ever	A
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'Tis the king who speaks He flings from the brow	E
Of the cliff that rugged and steep	F
Hangs out o'er the endless sea below	G
The cup in the whirlpool's howling heap	F
Again I ask what hero will follow	G
What hero plunge into yon dark hollow	G
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The knights and the squires the king about	H
Hear and dumbly stare	B
Into the wild sea's tumbling rout	H
To win the beaker they hardly care	B
The king for the third time round him glaring	I
Not one soul of you has the daring	I
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Speechless all as before they stand	J
Then a squire young gentle gay	K
Steps from his comrades' shrinking band	J
Flinging his girdle and cloak away	K
And all the women and men that surrounded	L
Gazed on the noble youth astounded	M
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And when he stepped to the rock's rough brow	E
And looked down on the gulf so black	N
The waters which it had swallowed now	E
Charybdis bellowing rendered back	N
And with a roar as of distant thunder	A
Foaming they burst from the dark lap under	A
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It wallows seethes hisses in raging rout	H
As when water wrestles with fire	A
Till to heaven the yeasty tongues they spout	H
And flood upon flood keeps mounting higher	A
It will never its endless coil unravel	O
As the sea with another sea were in travail	P
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But at last slow sinks the writhing spasm	Q
And black through the foaming white	R
Downward gapes a yawning chasm	Q
Bottomless cloven to hell's wide night	R
And sucked up see the billows roaring	I
Down through the whirling funnel pouring	I
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Then in haste ere the out rage return again	S
The youth to his God doth pray	K
And ascends a cry of horror and pain	T
Already the vortex hath swept him away	K
And o'er the bold swimmer in darkness eternal	O
Close the great jaws of the gulf infernal	O
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Then the water above grows smooth as glass	U
While below dull roarings ply	V
And trembling they hear the murmur pass	U
High hearted youth farewell good bye	V
And hollower still comes the howl affraying	I
Till their hearts are sick with the frightful delaying	I
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If the crown itself thou in should fling	I
And say Who back with it hies	U
Himself shall wear it and shall be king	I
I would not covet the precious prize	U
What Ocean hides in that howling hell of it	W
Live soul will never come back to tell of it	W
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Ships many caught in that whirling surge	X
Shot sheer to their dismal doom	Y
Keel and mast only did ever emerge	X
Shattered from out the all gulping tomb	Y
Like the bluster of tempest clearer and clearer	A
Comes its roaring nearer and ever nearer	A
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It wallows seethes hisses in raging rout	H
As when water wrestles with fire	A
Till to heaven the yeasty tongues they spout	H
Wave upon wave's back mounting higher	A
And as with the grumble of distant thunder	A
Bellowing it bursts from the dark lap under	A
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And see from its bosom flowing dark	I
Something heave up swan white	R
An arm and a shining neck they mark	I
And it rows with never relaxing might	R
It is he and high his golden capture	A
His left hand waves in success's rapture	A
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With long deep breaths his path he ploughed	Z
And he hailed the heavenly day	K
Jubilant shouted the gazing crowd	Z
He lives he is there he broke away	K
Out of the grave the whirlpool uproarious	U
The hero hath rescued his life victorious	U
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He comes they surround him with shouts of glee	A2
At the king's feet he sinks on the sod	B2
And hands him the beaker upon his knee	A2
To his lovely daughter the king gives a nod	B2
She fills it brim full of wine sparkling and playing	I
And then to the king the youth turned him saying	I
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Long live the king Well doth he fare	B
Who breathes in this rosy light	R
But ah it is horrible down there	B
And man must not tempt the heavenly Might	R
Or ever seek with prying unwholesome	Y
What he graciously covers with darkness dolesome	Y
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It tore me down with a headlong swing	I
Then a shaft in a rock outpours	U
Wild rushing against me a torrent spring	I
It seized me the double stream's raging force	U
And like a top with giddy twisting	I
It spun me round there was no resisting	I
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Then God did show me sore beseeching	I
In deepest frightfullest need	C2
Up from the bottom a rock ledge reaching	I
At it I caught and from death was freed	C2
And behold on spiked corals the beaker suspended	L
Which had else to the very abyss descended	L
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For below me it lay yet mountain deep	F
The purply darksome maw	Y
And though to the ear it was dead asleep	F
The ghasted eye down staring saw	Y
How with dragons lizards salamanders crawling	I
The hell jaws horrible were sprawling	I
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Black swarming in medley miscreate	L
In masses lumped hideously	A2
Wallowed the conger the thorny skate	L
The lobster's grisly deformity	A2
And bared its teeth with cruel sheen a	D2
Terrible shark the sea's hyena	D2
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And there I hung and shuddering knew	E2
That human help was none	F2
One thinking soul mid the horrid crew	E2
In the ghastly solitude I was alone	G2
Deeper than man's speech ever sounded	L
By the waste sea's dismal monsters surrounded	L
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I thought and shivered Then something crept near	H2
Moved at once a hundred joints	U
Now it will have me Frantic with fear	H2
I lost my grasp of the coral points	U
Away the whirl in its raging tore me	A2
But it was my salvation and upward bore me	A2
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The king at the tale is filled with amaze	U
The beaker well won is thine	I2
And this ring I will give thee too he says	U
Precious with gems that are more than fine	I2
If thou dive yet once and bring me the story	A2
What thou sawst in the sea's lowest repertory	A2
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His daughter she hears with a tender dismay	Y
And her words sweet suasive plead	L
Father enough of this cruel play	Y
For you he has done an unheard of deed	L
And can you not master your soul's desire	A
'Tis the knights' turn now to disgrace the squire	J2
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The king he snatches and hurls the cup	K2
Into the swirling pool	L2
If thou bring me once more that beaker up	K2
My best knight I hold thee most worshipful	O
And this very day to thy home thou shall lead her	A
Who there for thee stands such a pitying pleader	A
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A heavenly passion his being invades	U
His eyes dart a lightning ray	A
He sees on her beauty the flushing shades	U
He sees her grow pallid and sink away	A
Determination thorough him flashes	U
And downward for life or for death he dashes	U
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They hear the dull roar it is turning again	S
Its herald the thunderous brawl	M2
Downward they bend with loving strain	T
They come they are coming the waters all	M2
They rush up they rush down up down for ever	A
The youth again bring they never	A

George Macdonald

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