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/ When down the Hartz the echoes swarm / He rides beneath the sounding storm / With mad "halloo! " and wild alarm / Of hound and horn -- a wonder, / With his hunter black as night, / Ban-dogs fleet and fast as light, / And a stag as silver white / Drives before, like mist, in flight, / Glimmering 'neath the bursten thunder.
/ The were-wolf shuns his ruinous track, / Long-howling hid in braken black; / Around the forests reel and crack / And mountain torrents tumble; / And the spirits of the air / Whistling whirl with scattered hair, / Teeth that flash and eyes that glare, / 'Round him as he chases there / With a noise of rains that rumble.
/ From thick Thuringian thickets growl / Fierce, fearful monsters black and foul; / And close before him a stritch-owl / Wails like a ghost unquiet: / Then the clouds aside are driven / And the moonlight, stormy striven. / Falls around the castle riven / Of the Dumburg, and the heaven / Maddens then with blacker riot.