. The story of Siegfried . ights which met him at every turn ; for heknew that none of the drowsy ones in that spaciouscastle could be awakened until he had aroused thePrincess Brunhild. In the grandest hall of the palacehe found her. The peerless maiden, most richly dight,reclined upon a couch beneath a gold-hung canopy;and her attendants, the ladies of the court, sat near andaround her. Sleep held fast her eyelids, and herbreathing was so gentle, that, but for the blush uponher cheeks, Siegfried would have thought her long, long years had her head thus lightly restedon that gold-fri
. The story of Siegfried . ights which met him at every turn ; for heknew that none of the drowsy ones in that spaciouscastle could be awakened until he had aroused thePrincess Brunhild. In the grandest hall of the palacehe found her. The peerless maiden, most richly dight,reclined upon a couch beneath a gold-hung canopy;and her attendants, the ladies of the court, sat near andaround her. Sleep held fast her eyelids, and herbreathing was so gentle, that, but for the blush uponher cheeks, Siegfried would have thought her long, long years had her head thus lightly restedon that gold-fringed pillow ; and in all that time neitherher youth had faded, nor her wondrous beauty waned. Siegfried stood beside her. Gently he touched hislips to that matchless forehead ; softly he named hername, — Brunhild! The charm was broken. Up rose the peerless prin-cess in all her queen-like beauty; uprose the courtlyladies round her. All over the castle, from cellar tobelfry-tower, from the stable to the banquet-hall, there. 2: w *:< w a Brunhild. 95 was a sudden awakening,—a noise of hurrying feetand mingled voices, and sounds which had long beenstrangers to the halls of Isenstein. The watchman onthe tower, and the sentinels on the ramparts, yawned,and would not believe they had been asleep ; the porterpicked up his keys, and hastened to lock the long-forgot-ten gates ; the horses neighed in their stalls ; the watch-dogs barked at the sudden hubbub ; the birds, ashamedat having allowed the sun to find them napping, hastenedto seek their food in the meadows ; the servants hur-ried here and there, each intent upon his duty; thewarriors in the banquet-hall clattered their knives andplates, and began again their feast; and their chiefdropped his goblet, and rubbed his eyes, and wonderedthat sleep should have overtaken him in the midst ofsuch a And Siegfried, standing at an upper window, lookedout over the castle-walls; and he saw that the flamesno longer raged in the mo
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