LINES

FROM THE GERMAN OF KÖRNER.

Written on the morning of the Battle of Dänneberg.

Doubt-beladen, dim and hoary,

O'er us breaks the mighty day,

And the sunbeam, cold and gory,

Lights us on our fearful way.

In the womb of coming hours,

Destinies of empires lie,

Now the scale ascends, now lowers,