StoryTitle("caps", "The Lorelei") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I know not whence it rises,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "This thought so full of woe:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But a tale of the times departed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Haunts me—and will not go.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The air is cool, and it darkens,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And calmly flows the Rhine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mountain peaks are sparkling", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the sunny evening-shine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yonder sits a maiden,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The fairest of the fair;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With gold is her garment glittering,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she combs her golden hair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a golden comb she combs it,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a wild song singeth she,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That melts the heart with a wondrous", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And powerful melody.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The boatman feels his bosom", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a nameless longing move;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He sees not the gulfs before him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His gaze is fixed above.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till over boat and boatman", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Rhine's deep waters run;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And this with her magic singing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Lorelei hath done!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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