Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Heidelberg | | Hymn for the Boatmen, as They Approach the Rapids under the Castle of Heidelberg | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | JESU! bless our slender boat, | |
| By the current swept along! | |
| Loud its threatenings,—let them not | |
| Drown the music of a song | |
| Breathed thy mercy to implore, | 5 |
| Where these troubled waters roar! | |
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| Saviour, for our warning, seen | |
| Bleeding on that precious Rood! | |
| If, while through the meadows green | |
| Gently wound the peaceful flood, | 10 |
| We forgot thee, do not thou | |
| Disregard thy suppliants now! | |
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| Hither, like yon ancient tower | |
| Watching o’er the river’s bed, | |
| Fling the shadow of thy power, | 15 |
| Else we sleep among the dead; | |
| Thou who trod’st the billowy sea, | |
| Shield us in our jeopardy! | |
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| Guide our bark among the waves; | |
| Through the rocks our passage smooth, | 20 |
| Where the whirlpool frets and raves, | |
| Let thy love its anger soothe: | |
| All our hope is placed in thee; | |
| Miserere Domine! | | | | |
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