And he prayed devoutly kneeling;
From the Rhine vale, many people
Timidly looked at the island.
Fierce and stubborn were these Almains.
Once the Roman gods they hated;
Now Franconia's God they hated,
Who at Zulpich, like a tempest,
Had o'erthrown their mighty host.
When the lazy master idly
Took his rest on winter evenings,