Then looking up forgave when big he saw

Tears in his daughter's eyes and Rudolf gone

Forth in the night that wailed with coming storm.

Before this inn, The Owl, assembled came

The nice-primped villagers to view the trial:

Fair fräuleins and blonde, comely, healthy fraus;

Stout burgers. And among them I did mark

Kurt and his daughter. He, a florid face

Of pride and joy for Rudolf's strange success;

She, radiant and flounced in flowing garb