“Dem Sänger Tell’s
Friedrich Schiller
Die Urkantone
1859.”
(“To the bard of Tell, Friedrich Schiller, the original Cantons, 1859.”)[103]
A little farther on, opposite Brunnen, at the foot of the rocky ramparts of Seelisberg, lies a long meadow, Rütli-platte, where, the peasant tradition says, the spirits of the Patriot Three sleep in the rocky caverns, ready to awaken in their country’s hour of danger:
“When the battle-horn is blown
Till Schreckhorn’s peaks reply,
When the Jungfrau’s cliffs send back the tone,
Through their eagles’ lonely sky;