Against the morrow's test; his ancestors'

High fame should not be tarnished. So he railed;

Then bowed his gray head and sat moodily:

But, looking up, forgave all when he saw

Tears in his daughter's eyes and Rudolf gone

Out in the night, black with approaching storm.

Before this inn, crowding the green, they stood,

The holiday village come to view the trial:

Fair maidens and their comely mothers with

Their sweethearts and their husbands. And I marked