Underneath the linden boughs;
Murder, bigamy, and theft;
Travellers of goods bereft;
Rapine, pillage, arson, spoil,--
Every thing but honest toil,
Are the deeds that best define
Every Legend of the Rhine.

That Virtue always meets reward,
But quicker when it wears a sword;
That Providence has special care
Of gallant knight and lady fair;
That villains, as a thing of course,
Are always haunted by remorse,--
Is the moral, I opine,
Of the Legends of the Rhine.




Mrs. Judge Jenkins.

[Being the Only Genuine Sequel to "Maud Muller."]



Maud Muller, all that summer day,
Raked the meadow sweet with hay;

Yet, looking down the distant lane,