HE shtood peside de Kloster-place, <br />Oopon de Rheinisch shore, <br />Und dere he saw a lofely face, <br />He'd seen in treams pefore. <br /> <br />'Feinslieb, und will'st dou go mit me? <br />Feinsllieb, make no delay; <br />For rocks ish shdeep und vales ish teep, <br />Und dings ish in de way.' <br /> <br />'Und oh! how can I go mit dir, <br />Or flyen out of land? <br />Der bischof holts me py de law, <br />Der Rheingraf by der hand. <br /> <br />'Liebsherz, if dou could'st landwarts gehn, <br />I'd follow willingly; <br />Boot we are leafs, und shdrong's de shdem <br />Vitch pinds oos to de dree.' <br /> <br />'Der briest who helt dee py de law <br />Ish now a broken man; <br />Der Rheingraf who vouldt marry dee <br />Ish in der Kaisar's ban. <br /> <br />'Und if de Kloster-beoples here <br />Vill shdop your goin to town, <br />Bei Gott! I'll burn von half of dem, <br />De oder half I'll trown! <br /> <br />'Denn linger not to back dy drunk, <br />Boot led our lofe hafe vings; <br />Dere's milliners in fair Cologne, <br />Vill make you avery dings.' <br /> <br />She toorn her eyes im mondenschein, <br />She schmile so heafenly; <br />'Dear lofe, so shendle und so goot! <br />I'll cut away mit dee. <br /> <br />'Und do not killl de Kloster-volk, <br />'Tvouldt only bring tiscrace! <br />Dough if I had de abbess here, <br />Lort! how I'd slap her vace!' <br /> <br />De moonlighdt blayed oopon de drees, <br />It shined oopon de blain, <br />Two forms rode in de mitnight woods, <br />Und nefer coomed again.<br /><br />Charles Godfrey Leland<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/am-rhein-no-iii/
