Repel the servant of the Seers;

We meet—’tis vain to strive or fly:

Albert of Lindheim, thou must die!”

Then with clasp’d hands the fair-hair’d maid

Sank at his feet, and wildly pray’d:—

“Stay, stay thee! sheath that lifted steel!

Oh! thou art human, and canst feel!

Hear me! if e’er ’twas thine to prove

The blessing of a parent’s love;

By thine own father’s hoary hair,