Through the Swabian sea, and carry,

Unimpaired, my youthful powers

Farther to the German country.

And once more come up before me

All the fragrant recollections

Of romance; my youthful dreaming

Sweetly then returns transfigured:

Foam and surging, strong-walled cities,

Rocks and castles, quiet cloisters,

Smiling vineyards on the hillside;