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/ They hold their own, they have no peers / In gloom and glow, in hopes and fears, / In love and terror, hovering round / The lore of that enchanted ground! -- / That mystic region, where one hears, / By bandit towers, the hunt that nears / Wild through the Hartz; the demon cheers / Of Hackelnberg; his horn and hound -- / They hold their own.
/ Dark Wallenstein; and, down the years, / The Lorelei; and, creased with sneers, / Faust, Margaret; -- the Sabboth sound, / Witch-whirling, of the Brocken, drowned / In storm, through which Mephisto leers, -- / They hold their own.