<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tell's Birth-Place. Imitated From Stolberg</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>Mark this holy chapel well!<br>The birth-place, this, of William Tell.<br>Here, where stands God's altar dread,<br>Stood his parent's marriage-bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>Here, first, an infant to her breast,<br>Him his loving mother prest;<br>And kissed the babe, and blessed the day,<br>And prayed as mothers used to pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>'Vouchsafe him health, O God! and give<br>The child thy servant still to live!'<br>But God had destined to do more<br>Through him than through an armed power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.<br>God gave him reverence of laws,<br>Yet stirring blood in Freedom's cause--<br>A spirit to his rocks akin,<br>The eye of the hawk and the fire therein!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V.<br>To Nature and to Holy Writ<br>Alone did God the boy commit:<br>Where flashed and roared the torrent, oft<br>His soul found wings, and soared aloft!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI.<br>The straining oar and chamois chase<br>Had formed his limbs to strength and grace:<br>On wave and wind the boy would toss,<br>Was great, nor knew how great he was!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII.<br>He knew not that his chosen hand,<br>Made strong by God, his native land<br>Would rescue from the shameful yoke<br>Of Slavery -- the which he broke!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512841" data-title="Tell's Birth-Place. Imitated From Stolberg de Samuel Taylor Coleridge" data-description="I. Mark this holy chapel well! The birth-place, this, of William Tell. Here, where stands God's altar dread, Stood his parent's marriage-bed. II. Here, first, an infant to her breast, Him his loving mother prest; And kissed the babe, and blessed ..."></div> </div> </div>

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