. The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations. The stream of streams, the only lovd, stream of my Fatherland. The Nile breathes of its Pyramids — of glories sad, but vast; And the Ganges through a thousand spots of beauty bright has passd; The Tiber in its turbid flood still tells of olden Rome, And Danube rolls its hasty stream by many a happy home: But the Rhine is the most beautiful—more dear to me the strand Of the stream of streams, the only lovd, stream of the Fatherland. BERWESEL with its picturesque roundtower is seen onthe left bank (onthe right as the river isasc
. The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations. The stream of streams, the only lovd, stream of my Fatherland. The Nile breathes of its Pyramids — of glories sad, but vast; And the Ganges through a thousand spots of beauty bright has passd; The Tiber in its turbid flood still tells of olden Rome, And Danube rolls its hasty stream by many a happy home: But the Rhine is the most beautiful—more dear to me the strand Of the stream of streams, the only lovd, stream of the Fatherland. BERWESEL with its picturesque roundtower is seen onthe left bank (onthe right as the river isascended), with its largechurch, built by ArchbishopBaldwin of Treves, whichhas a richly decorated Gothicinterior and many curiouscarvings and chapel seen near thewall of the town, and not farfrom the river, is named afterWerner, a youth, who issaid by tradition to havebeen kidnapped by the Jewsand crucified, — a tale told in OBERWESEL . many countries as an excusefor cruel persecutions and shameless spoliation of the scattered tribes of
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