HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. · No. CCXXIII-DECEMBER, 1868.-VOL. XXXVIII. A Pilgrimage upon the Rhine. BY JOHN D. SHERWOOD. Illustrated by CHARLES PARSONS. W HOE'ER would sing the beauteous RHINE, And banks all crowned with royal wine, Must wreathe his pen with Bacchant grace- With purple joy its movements trace, And, crowned with leaves, be gentle, strong; Flow, like its stream, in varied rhyme, And gild his verse with spoils of time. O'er BINGEN's hills ripe grapes are hung, Hanging their jeweled clusters rare And, crinkling through the loving air, With wavy wealth of murmuring grace Church, hamlet, flood and land enlace. VOL. XXXVIII.-No. 223-1 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by Harper and Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. This Nemesis, whose venging rod As witnesses to Man and God, These weeping Magdalens in stone! The sounds which climb her wave-washed steep. |