But below oft ruleth the fickle tempest,

Oft the stillness of death, in the subject sea!

O hasten not so

Toward the green sea!

Youth, O now thou art strong, like a god,

Free, like a god!

Translation of W. W. Story.      Fr. Leop. Stolberg, 1750–1819.

A RIVER.

FROM “SALMONIA.”