Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79.
The Salutation of a Spirit
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832)Translated by George Bancroft
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The warrior’s shade appears,
Who to the bark that ’s passing calls,
And thus its passage cheers:
This heart was firm and bold;
Mid war and glory, feast and song,
My earthly years were told.
In half have sought for ease.
What then? Thou bark, that sail’st with man,
Haste, haste to cleave the seas!”