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PINE OF HERTZGOVITZ.
Lofty pine of Hertzgovitz, rooted in the riven stone,
'Neath thy shade a maiden sits, on the wild rock all alone;
Softly to herself she singeth, and her accents blend with thine,
What the burden that she bringeth, to thy songs oh dreamy pine?
'Neath thy shade a maiden sits, on the wild rock all alone;
Softly to herself she singeth, and her accents blend with thine,
What the burden that she bringeth, to thy songs oh dreamy pine?
Mourns she that her youth is over, soon its bloom the sunbeam draws;
Mourns she for an absent lover, captive in the Turkish wars;
Of thy rout, oh red Kossova, sings she, and the olden day,
Or the dreary swamps that cover Lewis and his lost array?
Mourns she for an absent lover, captive in the Turkish wars;
Of thy rout, oh red Kossova, sings she, and the olden day,
Or the dreary swamps that cover Lewis and his lost array?
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Sombre are the forest shadows streaked with light that round her move,
Floating o'er the narrow meadows far beneath, where white herds rove,
As the wind, the shade, the sunset, wild and sombre thus should be
Songs of love or battle's onset, 'neath thy boughs, oh whispering tree.
Floating o'er the narrow meadows far beneath, where white herds rove,
As the wind, the shade, the sunset, wild and sombre thus should be
Songs of love or battle's onset, 'neath thy boughs, oh whispering tree.
Lewis the Second, who, being defeated by the Turks at Mohacs A. D. 1526, met the fate in the marshes round that place, which befell Prince Poniatowski in the Elster, after the battle of Leipsic—
“Rex ipse ubi aciem suam inclinare vidit, verso in fugam equo ad paludes delatus, cum in ripam eluctari conatur ab equo resupino in cœnum depressus suffocatur.”
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