Good And Bad Luck. Translations. After Heine.

"Double flutes and horns resound     As they dance the idol round;     Jacob's daughters, madly reeling,         Whirl about the golden calf."

"I wandered through a careless world         Deceived when not deceiving,     And never gave an idle heart         The rapture of believing."

"When by Jabbok the patriarch waited         To learn on the morrow his doom,     And his dubious spirit debated         In darkness and silence"

"I.     Land of unconquered Pelayo! land of the Cid Campeador!     Sea-girdled mother of men! Spain, name of glory and power;     Cradle of world-gr"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"