Tales of a Wayside Inn by Longfellow Henry Wadsworth

Author:Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: (Privatkopie)
Published: 2010-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

»Wake from your dreams, O Edrehi!

Or dreaming speak to us, and make

A feint of being half awake,

And tell us what your dreams may be.

Out of the hazy atmosphere

Of cloud-land deign to reappear

Among us in this Wayside Inn;

Tell us what visions and what scenes

Illuminate the dark ravines

In which you grope your way. Begin!«

Thus the Sicilian spake. The Jew

Made no reply, but only smiled,

As men unto a wayward child,

Not knowing what to answer, do.

As from a cavern's mouth, o'ergrown

With moss and intertangled vines,

A streamlet leaps into the light

And murmurs over root and stone

In a melodious undertone;

Or as amid the noonday night

Of sombre and wind-haunted pines

There runs a sound as of the sea;

So from his bearded lips there came

A melody without a name,

A song, a tale, a history,

Or whatsoever it may be,

Writ and recorded in these lines.

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