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FRIEDERICH WERNER The Templars in Cyprus

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FRIEDERICH WERNER
The Templars in Cyprus
page 216



That lear him onward* to return no more. All, certainly no more ! (/\t»i«r.) Farewell, then ' Th .r k. For every hour of calm delight, for all Your soothing, all sweet lialmii exhaled on me, That which in vain I nought 'moug human kind,— Proud «oui* who vaunt themselves creation'* king*,— I've found among you here, in union fair, Simplicity, love, |eace. Ah, never hang, Lily, thy little head ! O God ! I might He proud indeed had I thy purity ! Thou regal roue ! Not regal, nay, not stained "With Mood, like Philip Augu«lu*' robe it thine.' A vaunt, deto»ted image ! Desecrate Not thou these homos of calm beatitude ! 'Ti* j»»t ! Tho stern reality di.-[cli My fair dream-vision, it ha* fleetly lied. Hrief aro tho moments which a man may snatch From earthly trammels, and into ether soar On golden pinions; always to be thrust Down to the inevitable dust again, And forced into tho yoke !—Who cometh here ? AIULIIIKT approaehft, completely fqm'jj-J at Ttmjlar. PHILIP. Ha, Adalbert, is't thou, mine only son ? Hath tho past night of terror robltcd thee too Of power to sleep ? APILNRITT. It hath tormented sore My bleeding heart by stirring up tho source Of torturing memory. In such a night, 0 Father, 1 was widowed. Let mo hide These tear-distilling eyes on your kind breast ! PHILIP (tilling him in hit arm*). Give thy tears vent. Theso witnesses of poor Humanity dishonour not tho Knight. 1 lliilip II., railed Augustus, was great-great-grandfather of I'liibp IV., styled the Fair, and went to tbe Crusade with Its-hard Caur de lion. A* Adalbert makes u*e of the title "Augustus* further on, when speaking of the reigning King, Iliilip the Fair, Werner most ba*e confused the tobriqnrtt of these two kings.— Tnnt. Till TLilFLAU- IS ( ÏPKI». •Jia


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