KONRAD WALLENROD.
AN HISTORICAL TALE.
(FROM THE ANNALS OF LITHUANIA AND PRUSSIA.)
"Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere . . . . bisogna essere volpe e leone."
Introduction.
A hundred years have passed since first the Order
Waded in blood of Northern heathenesse;
The Prussian now had bent his neck to chains,
Or, yielding up his heritage, removed
With life alone. The German followed after,
Tracking the fugitive; he captive made
And murdered unto Litwa's farthest bound.
Niemen divideth Litwa from the foe;
On one side gleam the sanctuary fanes,
And forests murmur, dwellings of the gods.
