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hatten Alle sich zum Strom gewandt,?Der alten F��rsten ganze Stufenleiter?Begr��?te das geliebte Erdenland.?Im Geisterchor der M?nner und der Frauen,?Der am Gestade hier versammelt war,?Stand auch ein Knabe, hold und sch?n zu schauen,?Mit zartem goldgelockten Haar,?Und diesen nur, mit jubelndem Entz��cken,?Sah ich zur weiten Ferne blicken.
Da endlich, wo der Strom von S��den ziehend?Zum Meere hin mit leichten Wogen wallt,?Da schwebte hell in Engelreizen gl��hend?Im Lichtgewande eine Huldgestalt;?Sie nahte, und mit freudigem Entz��cken?Schlo? sie den Knaben an verkl?rter Brust,?Und Thr?nen thauten in den Geisterblicken,?Sie k��ndeten der Wehmuth s��?e Lust.?Bald h?rt' ich rauschend, wie der Bl?tter Fallen,?Des Ahnherrn Worte am Gestade hallen:
Tochter des Landes, das ich zum Lohne?Ringend und k?mpfend im Leben gewann,?Trugst Du die letzte, die f��rstliche Krone,?Die wie ein Tropfen im Meere zerrann.
Sind uns doch Allen die W��rden zerflossen,?Allen zertr��mmert der irdische Thron,?Treu doch bewahrten des Grabes Genossen?Hier in dem Kreise den lieblichen Sohn.
Schwebe mit ihm zu den strahlenden Welten,?Theile mit ihm der Unsterblichkeit Kranz;?Dort, wo die Kronen des Himmels nur gelten,?Strahlet die Deine in ewigem Glanz.
Ich blickte auf. Wie T?ne leis' verhallen,?Entflohn die Bilder; nur im Abendschein?Sah _Dorothea_ ich zum Himmel wallen?Mit Ihrem Sohn zum ewigen Verein.?Da deutete ich der Erscheinung Tr?umen:?Den Strom der Zeiten hatte ich gesehn,?An dessen Ufer in den stillen R?umen?Nur seliger Geister Schatten gehn. --?Dahin, dahin, zu jenes Stromes Wogen,?Bist, holde F��rstin, Du nun fortgezogen.
[Fu?note B: In dem wiederhergestellten Grabgew?lbe der alten F��rsten Kurlands ruhet auch der Erbprinz _Peter_, Sohn des letzten verstorbenen Herzogs und dessen Gemahlin _Dorothea_, Reichsgr?fin _von Medem_.]
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