Translations. - Knight Toggenburg. (from Schiller.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE EFEFGHGI EJEKEEEE LMLNGOGO APAPEEEE AQAFRSRS RTRTUEVE WEWEAXAX EYEYGEGE AXAXXSXS| True love knight as to a brother | A |
| Yield I you again | B |
| Ask me not for any other | A |
| For it gives me pain | C |
| Calmly I behold you come in | D |
| Calm behold you go | E |
| Your sad eyes the weeping dumb in | D |
| I nor read nor know | E |
| - | |
| And he hears her uncomplaining | E |
| Tears him free by force | F |
| To his heart but once her straining | E |
| Flings him on his horse | F |
| Sends to all his vassals merry | G |
| In old Switzerland | H |
| To the holy grave they hurry | G |
| White crossed pilgrim band | I |
| - | |
| Mighty deeds the foe outbraving | E |
| Works their hero arm | J |
| From their helms the plumes float waving | E |
| Mid the heathen swarm | K |
| Still his Toggenburg upwaking | E |
| Frays the Mussulman | E |
| But his heart its grievous aching | E |
| Quiet never can | E |
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| One whole year he did endure it | L |
| Then his patience lost | M |
| Peace he never could secure it | L |
| And forsakes the host | N |
| Sees a ship by Joppa's entry | G |
| At her cable saw | O |
| Sails him home to that dear country | G |
| Where she breath doth draw | O |
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| At the gate her castle under | A |
| Pilgrim sad he knocked | P |
| Straight as with a word of thunder | A |
| Was the gate unlocked | P |
| She you seek with rites most solemn | E |
| Is betrothed to heaven | E |
| Yesterday beneath that column | E |
| She to Christ was given | E |
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| Then the halls he leaves for ever | A |
| Of his ancestors | Q |
| Shield or sword sets eyes on never | A |
| Or his faithful horse | F |
| Down from Toggenburg he fareth | R |
| None to see or care | S |
| On his noble limbs he weareth | R |
| Sackcloth made of hair | S |
| - | |
| And himself a hovel buildeth | R |
| That same cloister nigh | T |
| Where the lime tree thicket yieldeth | R |
| Cover whence to spy | T |
| There from morning's earliest traces | U |
| Till red evening shone | E |
| Thither turned his hoping face is | V |
| There he sits alone | E |
| - | |
| On the walls so high above him | W |
| His eyes waiting hang | E |
| Waiting though she would not love him | W |
| For her lattice clang | E |
| Waiting till the loved should send her | A |
| Glance into the vale | X |
| And unthinking toward it bend her | A |
| Visage angel pale | X |
| - | |
| Then he laid him sadness scorning | E |
| Comforted to sleep | Y |
| Quietly joyous till the morning | E |
| Out again should peep | Y |
| And so sat he years a many | G |
| Years without a pang | E |
| Waiting without murmur any | G |
| Till her window rang | E |
| - | |
| For the lovely one to send her | A |
| Glance into the vale | X |
| And unseeing toward him bend her | A |
| Angel visage pale | X |
| And thus sat he staring wanly | X |
| His last morning there | S |
| Toward her window still the manly | X |
| Silent face did stare | S |
George Macdonald
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