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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358409" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Castle In Austria</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From 'The Boy's Wonderhorn'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There lies a castle in Austria,<br>Right goodly to behold,<br>Walled tip with marble stones so fair,<br>With silver and with red gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therein lies captive a young boy,<br>For life and death he lies bound,<br>Full forty fathoms under the earth,<br>'Midst vipers and snakes around.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His father came from Rosenberg,<br>Before the tower he went:--<br>'My son, my dearest son, how hard<br>Is thy imprisonment!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O father, dearest father mine,<br>So hardly I am bound,<br>Full forty fathoms under the earth,<br>'Midst vipers and snakes around!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His father went before the lord:--<br>'Let loose thy captive to me!<br>I have at home three casks of gold,<br>And these for the boy I'll gi'e.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Three casks of gold, they help you not:<br>That boy, and he must die!<br>He wears round his neck a golden chain;<br>Therein doth his ruin lie.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And if he thus wear a golden chain,<br>He hath not stolen it; nay!<br>A maiden good gave it to him<br>For true love, did she say.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They led the boy forth from the tower,<br>And the sacrament took he:--<br>'Help thou, rich Christ, from heaven high,<br>It's come to an end with me!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They led him to the scaffold place,<br>Up the ladder he must go:--<br>'O headsman, dearest headsman, do<br>But a short respite allow!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A short respite I must not grant;<br>Thou wouldst escape and fly:<br>Reach me a silken handkerchief<br>Around his eyes to tie.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh, do not, do not bind mine eyes!<br>I must look on the world so fine;<br>I see it to-day, then never more,<br>With these weeping eyes of mine.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His father near the scaffold stood,<br>And his heart, it almost rends:--<br>'O son, O thou my dearest son,<br>Thy death I will avenge!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O father, dearest father mine!<br>My death thou shalt not avenge:<br>'Twould bring to my soul but heavy pains;<br>Let me die in innocence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It is not for this life of mine,<br>Nor for my body proud;<br>'Tis but for my dear mother's sake:<br>At home she weeps aloud.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not yet three days had passed away,<br>When an angel from heaven came down:<br>'Take ye the boy from the scaffold away;<br>Else the city shall sink under ground!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And not six months had passed away,<br>Ere his death was avenged amain;<br>And upwards of three hundred men<br>For the boy's life were slain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who is it that hath made this lay,<br>Hath sung it, and so on?<br>That, in Vienna in Austria,<br>Three maidens fair have done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clemens+Maria+Brentano">Clemens Maria Brentano</a><div class=q>
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There lies a castle in Austria,
Right goodly to behold,
Walled tip with marble stones so fair,
With silver and with red gold.

Therein lies captive a young boy,
For life and death he lies bound,
Full forty fathoms unde..."></div>
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