Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller Author:Friedrich Schiller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: We go to the hills, but you'll sec us again, When the cuckoo is calling, and wood-notes are gay, When flowerets are blooming in dingle and plain, And the broo... more »ks sparkle up in the sunshine of May. Farewell, ye green meadows, Farewell, sunny shore, The herdsman must leave you, The summer is o'er. Chamois Hunter textit{(appearing on the top of a cliff). textit{Second Variation of the Ranz des Vaches. On the heights peals the thunder, and trembles the bridg, The huntsman bounds on by the dizzying ridge, Undaunted he hies him O'er ice-covered wild, Where leaf never budded, Nor spring ever smiled ; And beneath him an ocean of mist, where his eye No longer the dwellings of man can espy; Through the parting clouds only The earth can be seen, Far down 'neath the vapor The meadows of green. textit{[A change comes over the landscape. A rumbling, cracking noise is heard among the mountains. Shadows of clouds sweep across the scene. [Ruooi, textit{the fisherman, comes out of his cottage. Werni, textit{the huntsman, descends from the rocks. Kuoni, textit{the shepherd, enters, with a milk-pail on his shoulders, followed by Seppi, textit{his assistant. Ruodl Bestir thee, Jenni, haul the boat on shore. The grizzly Vale-king comes, the glaciers moan, The lofty Mytensteinf draws on his hood, And from the Stormcleft chilly blows the wind; The storm will burst before we are prepared. Tbe German is textit{Tlutlvoqt. Ruler of the Valley ? the name given figuratively to a dense gray mist which the south wind sweeps into the valleys Ironi the mountain tops. It Ib well known ns the precursor of stormy weather. t A steep rock standing on the uortli of liiitli, and nearly opposite to Brumen. Kuonl 'Twill rain ere long; my sheep browse eagerly, And Watcher ther...« less