XXVIII. Then, on the silence of the snows there lay A Sabbath's quiet sunshine,—and its bell Peal'd from the mountain-churches, with a swell For now the strife was clos'd, the glorious Alps were free! NOTES. Note 1. The Senn's wild horn. SENN, the name given to a herdsman among the Swiss Alps. Note 2. Against the Föhnwind's blast. Föhnwind, the South-east wind, which frequently lays waste the country before it. Note 3. A father of the land. Walter Fürst, the father-in-law of Tell. Note 4. Werner, the brave and true! &c. Werner Stauffacher, who had been urged by his wife to rouse and unite his countrymen for the deliverance of Switzerland. Note 5. -Young Erni's step had worn, &c. Erni, Arnold Melchthal. Note 6. The Lämmer-Geyer had spread, &c. The Lämmer-Geyer, the largest kind of Alpine eagle. Note 7. Of wrongs to call down Heaven, &c. The eyes of his aged father had been put out, by the orders of the Austrian Governor. Note 8. -Beside the Forest-Sea. Forest-Sea. The Lake of the Four Cantons is frequently so called. |