Quench’d are all the golden blisses That love’s star upon me smil’d; ’Neath my feet the dread abyss is,-- Night primeval, take thy child! 69. Night lay upon mine eyelids, Upon my mouth lay lead; I in my grave was lying, With frozen heart and head. How long it was I know not That I in slumber lay; I woke and heard a knocking Upon my grave one day. “Wilt thou not rise up, Henry? “The Judgment Day is this, “The dead have all arisen, “To taste of endless bliss.” I cannot rise, my darling, For I have lost my sight; Mine eyes, through very weeping, Are veil’d in darkest night. “I’ll kiss away the darkness, “My Henry, from thine eyes; “The angels shalt thou see then, “The glory of the skies.” I cannot rise, my darling, The wound is bleeding yet, Made by thee in my bosom With one sharp word and threat. “My hand all gently, Henry, “I’ll lay upon thy heart; “It then will bleed no longer, “And heal’d will be the smart.” I cannot rise, my darling, My head still bleeds amain! ’Twas there the bullet enter’d, When thou wert from me ta’en. “With my long tresses, Henry, “I’ll stanch the bleeding wound, “And drive the blood-stream backwards, “And make thy head thus sound.” So gently, sweetly pray’d she, I could not spurn her prayer; I sought to rise and hasten To join my mistress fair. Then all my wounds ’gan bleeding, Then, wildly rushing, broke From head and breast the bloodstream, And lo!--from sleep I woke. 70. The numbers old and evil, The dreams so harrowing, Let’s bury all together,-- A mighty coffin bring! I’ll place there much, but say not What ’tis, till all is done; The coffin must be larger Than Heidelberg’s vast tun. And also bring a death-bier, Of boards full stout and sound; They also must be longer Than Mayence bridge renown’d. And also bring twelve giants Whose strength of limb excels Saint Christopher’s, whose shrine in Cologne Cathedral dwells. The coffin they must carry, And sink beneath the wave; For such a mighty coffin Must have a mighty grave. Why was the coffin, tell me, So great and hard to move? I in it placed my sorrows, And in it placed my love. THE GODS’ TWILIGHT.