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the dark heights that overlook the Rhine, Flinging long shadows on the watery plains, Crowned with grey towers, and girdled by the vine, How little of the warlike past remains!

The castle walls are shattered, and wild flowers Usurp the crimson banner's former sign. Where are the haughty Templars and their powers? Their forts are perished—but not so their shrine.