Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO EMILY; WITH A FLASK OF RHINE WATER, by THOMAS HOOD


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First Line: The old catholic city was still
Last Line: That the rhine seemed all eau de cologne!
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Rhine (river), Europe


THE old Catholic City was still,
In the Minster the vespers were sung,
And, re-echoed in cadences shrill,
The last call of the trumpet had rung;
While, across the broad stream of the Rhine,
The full Moon cast a silvery zone;
And, methought, as I gazed on its shine,
"Surely that is the Eau de Cologne."

I inquired not the place of its source,
If it ran to the east or the west;
But my heart took a note of its course,
That it flow'd towards Her I love best --
That it flow'd towards Her I love best,
Like those wandering thoughts of my own,
And the fancy such sweetness possess'd,
That the Rhine seemed all Eau de Cologne!





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