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RHEIN-WEIN LIED, FR. THE HOUSE OF ASPEN by WALTER SCOTT

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT MAKES THE TROOPERS' FROZEN COURAGE MUSTER?
Last Line: OH, BLESSED BE THE RHINE!
Subject(s): RHINE (RIVER), EUROPE;
WHAT makes the troopers' frozen courage muster?
The grapes of juice divine.
Upon the Rhine, upon the Rhine they cluster:
Oh, blessed be the Rhine!

Let fringe and furs, and many a rabbitskin, sirs,
Bedeck your Saracen;
He'll freeze without what warms our hearts within, sirs,
When the night-frost crusts the fen.

But on the Rhine, but on the Rhine they cluster,
The grapes of juice divine,
That make our troopers' frozen courage muster:
Oh, blessed be the Rhine!



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