Excerpt from Germelshausen: With Notes and Vocabulary On the northern coast of Germany the lonely fisher man listened to the sound of the waves mingled with that of the wind. He could clearly hear the ringing of the church-bells on islands which time and tide long ago had buried in the water's depth. Barbarossa, his peo ple's idol, slumbered for centuries in the Kyfihaeuser mountain and asked in vain every hundred years his unavailing question, until the franco-prussian war restored his country's unity and allowed him to seek his place of repose among the other chiefs of the Swabian house.

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