Translations. - The Castle On The Mountain. (from Goethe.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCBC DEBE FGFH FDDD IJKJ ALML IGIG NDFD KBDB ABAB IDAD DLDL| Up there upon yonder mountain | A |
| Stands a castle old in the gorse | B |
| Where once behind doors and portals | B |
| Lurking lay knight and horse | B |
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| Burnt are the doors and the portals | B |
| All round it is very still | C |
| Its old walls tumbled in ruins | B |
| I scramble about at my will | C |
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| Close hereby lay a cellar | D |
| Full of wine that was old and rare | E |
| But the cheery maid with the pitchers | B |
| No more comes down the stair | E |
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| No more in the hall sedately | F |
| Sets the beaker before the guest | G |
| No more at the festival stately | F |
| The flagon fills for the priest | H |
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| No more to the page so thirsty | F |
| Gives a draught in the corridor | D |
| And receives for the hurried favour | D |
| The hurried thanks no more | D |
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| For every rafter and ceiling | I |
| Long ago were to ashes burned | J |
| And stair and passage and chapel | K |
| To rubbish and ruin turned | J |
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| Yet when with flask and cittern | A |
| On a day in the summer's prime | L |
| Up to the rocky summit | M |
| I watched my darling climb | L |
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| Out came the old joy reviving | I |
| On the face of the ancient rest | G |
| And on went the old life driving | I |
| In its lordliness and zest | G |
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| It seemed as for strangers distinguished | N |
| Their state rooms they did prepare | D |
| And out of that brave time shadowy | F |
| Came stepping a youthful pair | D |
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| And the worthy priest in his chapel | K |
| Stood already in priestly dress | B |
| And asked Will you two take one another | D |
| And smiling we answered Yes | B |
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| And the hymns with deep pulsation | A |
| Stirred every heart at once | B |
| And instead of the congregation | A |
| The echo yelled response | B |
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| And when in the gathered evening | I |
| Profound the stillness grew | D |
| And the red glowing sun at the broken | A |
| Gable came peering through | D |
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| Then damsel and page in his rays are | D |
| Grandees of the olden prime | L |
| She tastes of his cup at her leisure | D |
| And he to thank her takes time | L |
George Macdonald
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